EMMA RICHARDSON

Emma Richardson (b.1982 Southampton) is an artist and musician with a creative career spanning almost 20 years. She graduated from Wimbledon School of Art, London with a BA Honors in Painting in 2004 and currently lives and works in London.

Driven by an interest in psychology, sexuality, transcendence and the sublime, Richardson draws inspiration from feminist writers, the female surrealists and the drama of Baroque painting, as well as her background as a touring musician, to create large scale sensuous and cinematic oil paintings on canvas.

Richardson uses the canvas to map out expansive inner worlds, suspended between the bodily and the cosmic, which investigate the politics of desire, the necessity of collective joy and our shifting relationship with nature.

She has exhibited in solo and group shows in London, Margate, Southampton, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Madrid. She received Develop Your Creative Practice funding from Arts Council England in 2021 and in 2022 completed three years on the Turps Correspondence Course.

Richardson is also a musician, and previously wrote, performed and toured with Band of Skulls for six of their albums. She is currently the bassist and backing vocalist with the Pixies and contributed to their latest record, The Night The Zombies Came.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

Levitate Me: Desire, Ecstasy and The Sublime - 2026
Southampton City Art Gallery

The Pull of The Tides - Duo Show with Anna Blom - 2023
Liminal Gallery, Margate

Hang Each Night In Rapture - 2023
Mura Ma Gallery, Marple, Manchester

Slow Burn - 2022-2023
Jeffery West, Piccadilly, London

The Great Rebellion - 2022
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Hidden Pleasures -2021
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

One Day Retrospective - 2018
The Arches Gallery Space, Southampton

Feast - 2014
Lazarides, The Outsiders Gallery, Soho, London

Cruising' For A Bruisin' - 2012
Londonewcastle Project Space, East LondoN

Meat Me At The Butchers - 2008
Limited Press Gallery, Southampton


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

Boarderlands - 2025
Pictorem Gallery, London

Salon III Group Show - 2025
Liminal Gallery, Margate

Salon II Group Show - 2024
Liminal Gallery, Margate

Darker Than A Blackbirds Retina - 2023
Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield
Curated by Karl Bielik and Rob Hall

Salon Group Show - 2023
Liminal Gallery, Margate

The Goddesses (A Love Explosion) - 2023
The Lido Stores, Margate
Curated by Jagger&Johnson

The Goddesses (A Love Explosion) - 2023
Terrace Gallery, London
Curated by Jagger&Johnson

Art on a Postcard - International Women’s Day Auction - 2023
Fitzrovia Gallery, London
Curated by Beth Greenacre

Todxs Contra Todxs - 2022
Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

Material Presence - 2022
Turps Correspondence Course 21/22 Group Show
Fitzrovia Gallery, London

Equinox -2022
Palais des Vaches, New Forest, Hampshire

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog -2021
Online group show at www.cohort.art featuring Turps Correspondence Course painters from year 2020-2021

In Absentia - 2021
Online group show at www.cohort.art featuring Turps Correspondence Course painters from year 2019-2020

Responder - 2014
Southampton City Art Gallery

James Lavelle’s Daydreaming With....The Hong Kong Edition - 2012 ArtisTree, Hong Kong

The Last Picture Show - 2012
The Bargate Gallery, Southampton

ART FAIRS

JustMad art fair Madrid, Spain - 2023
Yoko Art Gallery

Art 14 London - 2014
Lazarides

RESIDENCIES

August/Sept 2022
Yoko Art Gallery Painting Residency