EMMA RICHARDSON

Emma Richardson (b.1982) is a London based artist and musician with a creative career

spanning nearly twenty years. Born in Southampton, she graduated from Wimbledon

School of Art, London with a BA (Hons) in Painting in 2004 and has exhibited in solo and

group shows in London, Margate, Southampton, Hong Kong, Barcelona and Madrid.

In 2021 she was awarded the Develop Your Creative Practice grant from Arts Council

England and had her first international solo exhibition at Yoko Art Gallery in Barcelona.

In 2022 she completed three years on the Turps Correspondence Course and returned

to Barcelona for her first international painting residency, culminating in her second

solo show in the city. 2026 saw the opening of her first solo institutional exhibition

‘Levitate Me: Desire, Ecstasy and the Sublime' at Southampton City Art Gallery.

As a musician Richardson, co-founded, wrote and performed with Band of Skulls for five

albums. Her paintings appear on a selection of their album and single releases. She is

currently the bassist and backing vocalist with Pixies and contributed to their latest

album The Night The Zombies Came.

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 and Renaissance 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.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026
Hotwire My Heart, The Wolf Collective, London, UK
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

2026
Between Waking and Wanting, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

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

EDUCATION
2001-2004 - BA (Hons) Fine Art Painting, Wimbledon School of Art
2000-2001 - Foundation Diploma in Art and Design, Winchester School of Art