The Easel

Mamma Mia! Emma Hart’s Cute Yet Sinister Max Mara Art Prize For Women Work

Part review, part artist bio. Hart trained as a photographer but used the proceeds of a major art prize to study ceramics. The result, her first solo exhibition, is a family of hanging ceramic “heads”. “I had an epiphany that in Deruta I saw the maiolica patterns … Could patterns harness or capture the problems of repetitive human behaviour?”