EMMA RICHARDSON

Emma Richardson (b.1982 Southampton) is an artist and musician with a creative career spanning nearly 20 years. She graduated from Wimbledon School of Art, London with a BA 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, 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 and performed with Band of Skulls for six albums. Her paintings appear on a selection of their album and single releases. She is currently the bassist and backing vocalist with the Pixies and contributed to their latest album The Night The Zombies Came.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

2023
"The Pull of The Tides", Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK
"Hang Each Night In Rapture", Mura Ma Gallery, Manchester, UK

2022
"Slow Burn", Jeffery West, London, UK
"The Great Rebellion", Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2021
"Hidden Pleasures", Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

2018
"One Day Retrospective", The Arches Gallery, Southampton, UK

2014
"Feast", The Outsiders Gallery, London, UK

2012
"Cruising For A Bruisin'", Londonewcastle Project Space, London, UK

2008
"Meat Me At The Butchers", Limited Press Gallery, Southampton, UK

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025
"Borderlands - Thresholds In Painting", Pictorem Gallery, London, UK
"Salon III", Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK

2024
"Salon II", Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK

2023
"Darker Than A Blackbirds Retina", Terrace Gallery, Huddersfield, UK
"Salon I", Liminal Gallery, Margate, UK
"The Goddesses (A Love Explosion)", The Lido Stores, Margate, UK
"The Goddesses (A Love Explosion)", Terrace Gallery, London, UK
"Art on a Postcard - International Women’s Day Auction", Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK, Curated by Beth Greenacre

2022
"Todxs Contra Todxs", Yoko Art Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
"Material Presence", Fitzrovia Gallery, London, UK
"Equinox", Palais des Vaches, Hampshire, UK

2021
"The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over The Lazy Dog", Online at www.cohort.art
"In Absentia", Online at www.cohort.art

2014
"Responder", Southampton City Art Gallery, UK

2012
"James Lavelle’s Daydreaming With....The Hong Kong Edition", ArtisTree, Hong Kong
"The Last Picture Show", The Bargate Gallery, Southampton, UK

ART FAIRS

2023
JustMad art fair Madrid, Spain

2014
Art 14 London

RESIDENCIES

2022
Yoko Art Gallery, Spain