CURRICULUM VITAE

 

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2014 Signal Gallery, London
2013 Evolution, Corke Gallery, Liverpool
2012 Movida, London
2011 Heredity. Lazarides Gallery, Newcastle
2010 Concilium Plebis. Lazarides Gallery, London
2010 Extraordinary Portraits of Ordinary People - featuring Joseph Wright of Derby. Derby Museum and Art Gallery
2009 Concilium Plebis. The Biscuit Factory's CUBE space, Newcastle
2009 Concilium Plebis. Sandford Goudie Gallery, The Customs House, Tyne and Wear [watch documentary]
2004 Michael Naimski Gallery, London
2003, 2004 State of the Art International Tattoo Convention, Assembly Rooms, Derbyshire

 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2013 Wider Than A Postcard, Breezeblock Gallery, Portland OR, USA
2012 5th Birthday Show, Signal Gallery, London

2012 Up Close, Signal Gallery, London
2012 The Moreton Gallery, UK
2012 Picks of the Harvest, Thinkspace gallery, California, USA
2011 The Biscuit factory autumn show, Newcastle
2010 Thinkspace 5 Year Anniversary Show, California, USA
2009 Grifters, Lazarides Gallery, Rathbone Place, London
2009 The Art lounge, Birmingham
2009 Myth and History, The Bristol Gallery
2009 Bohemia Galleries, York
2009 OPS Exhibitions, Stadtgallerie, Stadtbibliothek and Lagerhalle Osnabrück, Germany
2008 Liverpool Biennial – Liverpool International Artists Exhibition at NOVAS CUC
2008 Gaze portraiture exhibition, Derby City Museum and Art Gallery
2007 Djanogly Gallery, Nottingham
2007 View Two Gallery, Liverpool
2001 Royal Society of Portrait Painters exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

 

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS + AWARDS etc

In 2012 Derby Museum and Art Gallery commissioned a new work, The Captive, for their permanent collection, and Emma Tooth's paintings feature in the collections of the Derby Chamber of Commerce and Derbyshire Libraries as well as many private collections all over the world including the UK, North America and South Africa.

In 2004 and 2008 Emma was awarded UK Arts Council funding for her Ophelia and Concilium Plebis projects, respectively. In 2000 she took the Artist's Commission Prize at the Derby Open but has not found time to enter competitions since. Emma and her work regularly appear in films, books, magazines, special events and on TV, radio and web worldwide.

 

 

SELECTED ART FAIRS

2008 The Affordable Art Fair, London
2007, 2006 Lille Bande Dessinee Festival, France
2006, 2007 Salon de la Bande Dessinee et des Arts Graphiques, Roubaix, France
2006, 2007, 2008 Comic Expo, Bristol
2005 Comic Expo, Brighton
2005 Amadora comics Festival, Portugal
2004 The London Art Fair

 

 

BOOKS

2011 Take a Bite by Nancy Schumann
2010 From Pig Farmers and Showgirls. A monograph on the work of Emma Tooth.
2005 Mam Tor's Event Horizon books 1 + 2 (Event Horizon was also translated into Italian and won Best Graphic Novel at SciFi London 2006 as well as being nominated for the Eagle Award in 2007)

 

 

SELECTED PRESS, MEDIA + WEB

2013 Art Of England Magazine
2012 HiFructose.com
2012 Juxtapoz.com
2012 BBC Radio interview with Aleena Naylor
2012 Wikipedia

2012 FirstThursdays.co.uk
2012 Movida-dubai.com
2012 BBC Radio interview with Andy Potter

2012 www.20minutos.es (Spanish)
2011 The Derbyshire Magazine
2011 Eyezine
2010 Graphotism.com
2010 Blancopop.com (Spanish)
2010 Arrested Motion.com
2010 Juxtapoz.com
2010 HiFructose.com
2009 The Guardian.co.uk
2009 BBC online
2009 BBC Bigscreen, Derby
2009 The Metro
2009 BBC Radio interview
2007, 2008 KERA Maniax (Japanese)
2008 Newsnight Review
2008 BBC Radio interview with Claire Hamilton
2008 BBC Bigscreen, Liverpool
2007, 2008 Imagine FX magazine
2006 Nord Eclair, Roubaix, France

 

 

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