In a five-part series of films, we examine how rebellion sits at the heart of pioneering artistic practice. For our final film in the series, we explore language and class with artist Emma Hart.
Emma Hart predominantly works with ceramics to make sculptures, which include an ongoing series of large glazed speech bubbles. Lately she has been using her ceramic speech bubbles to irreverently explore the pressures of being an artist that comes from a working class background, who as she puts it “operates in the middle class artworld.”
Hart states ‘my class background is held in my mouth, and unfortunately each time I open it I risk being judged. Your mouth holds your upbringing, accidentally spitting out your history’
Hart’s wall mounted speech bubbles physically confront us and viewed at head height, actively put words in our mouths.
