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About Emma Mendelssohn Talbot
Emma Mendelssohn Talbot (@talbot.emma) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. The account has 22,435 followers and 1,294 published posts. Recent posts average 348 likes and 11 comments, an engagement rate of 1.53%.
With 22.4K followers, Emma Mendelssohn Talbot is a micro creator by the common 10,000 to 100,000 definition. Emma Mendelssohn Talbot follows 7,192 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.1 times the size of the list followed. Emma Mendelssohn Talbot is set up as an Instagram business account. Flinque files Emma Mendelssohn Talbot under Artist, with Art & DIY as a secondary category.
The Instagram bio for Emma Mendelssohn Talbot runs to 23 words. The latest activity Flinque has on record for Emma Mendelssohn Talbot dates from June 2026.
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I haven’t found a better word for the figures than ‘avatars’, although this isn’t quite right.
They are faceless, because as I look out at the world I can’t see my own face, there is just an open portal
They are forms that represent an idea of myself - from my interior thinking
(rather than me seen objectively- something I can’t do)
a sort of version of self that can inhabit my ideas.
But I must admit, having recently heard someone describe them as puppets, or in the past as doll-like, I’m curious to think about how they work.
What do you think?
They can transform in scale and become old or young (or even a robot, as in the first image).
They are physically expressive, rather than having facial expressions. They aren’t characters.
If they had faces I imagine they would become ‘someone’ more than ‘anyone’.
They fall, fly and float, because they are more about thought and imagination than being pedestrian.
(I do think we’re all like this, in movement in our minds in ways that are very different than our gravitational physicality.)
They often have multiple limbs, because they are simultaneously reaching and trying to hold on, and climbing through life’s experience.
I think they operate like the first person in a novel - from an interiority that leads us through narrative events.
As readers, we can take on the reflective space of the ‘I’, that guides us through described experience.
I like that they are a recognisable figure in the work, populating and experiencing my ideas
and that they can be both an expressive individual and part of a mass.
I also like their flatness, the potential to be a motif.
In fact, I’m thinking more and more about flatness.
#contemporaryart #psyche #emmatalbot
How do they read to you?
Thorn Prikker mapped his world and life as fixed and patriarchal; man holds the world in his hands, nature, animals, women and children fall under his control. The seasons are his structure for the four panels marking the stages of a life.
My work responds by describing life in contemporary times - as messy, on a volatile planet, where conflicts based on control over assets (oil,minerals,precious metals, trade routes,land) and power deliberately destabilise and displace.
No one is secure.
Vast gulfs between wealth and poverty shape our times, never more clearly evident than the current pursuit of mining rights on asteroid Psyche 16 (its assets are estimated to be worth 10 quillion dollars) and the moon, projects which depend on the use of Greenland for the control of satellites to organise robotic mining.
In my work, physical representations of asteroid Psyche and the Moon hang in the same space as the painting of earthly life. Made from digitally knitted nets and applications of hand-made materiality, they reference the human capacity to view every existing (natural) thing as a value resource. The current mapping and colonising of these spaces through the lens of value marks a massive shift for human life - happening right now.
The human relationship to the universe is expanding, in the painting 21st century pioneers reach for other planets.
One half of the painted silk hanging describes the Earth, our terrain, as a site of multiple disturbances and climate urgency; a site filling up with junk, without stability. The figures, caught in narratives of evolution - from cave dwellers to those that face extinction, expected to strive.
The other half of the painted silk is dedicated to the parallel space in all our lives of the virtual & the development of AI. A giant smashed mirror holds up fragmented information and advice, feeds back what we teach it and mines us psychologically to assist machine learning. We build a fiction ‘Psyche’
We’re assets too.
#kunstmuseenkrefeld #contemporaryart
See it before it’s gone.
2414 Florida Avenue
West Palm Beach
At the centre of the show is the titular work: a large-scale, hanging silk painting that tells a contemporary story of human progress and transformation across five panels. Here, Talbot casts us into a fantastical sky, burning bright with planets, stars and rays of light.
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#westpalmbeach #emmatalbot #preciousmetals #kristinhjellegjerdegallery #khgallery
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Italian Story explores our complex relationship to and dependence on nature. In this work, the wolf reappears, this time biting into the figure’s hand as they gaze up at the moon. Again, it’s a scene that suggests both a feeling of connection and threat – the world around them is on the brink of change, shifting in swirling forms and watery rivulets.
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Italian Story, 2025• Acrylic on silk•210 x 150 cm | 82 5/8 x 59 in
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#emmatalbot #kristinhjellegjerdegallery #khgallery #painting #westpalmbeach
Figures tumble through glittering, kaleidoscopic worlds, their limbs merging with celestial forms, creatures and plants. These are the magical visions of Emma Talbot, whose solo exhibition “Precious Metals” at Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, West Palm Beach reflects on our rapidly changing relationship to both Earth and space.
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Emma Talbot
Night Flight, 2025
Acrylic on silk
210 x 150 cm
82 5/8 x 59 in
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#preciousmetals #emmatalbot #kristinhjellegjerdegallery #WestPalmBeach #ContemporaryArt
🔗Link in bio to learn more.
Through 22nd May 2026
A solo exhibition of works by Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, presents silk paintings, intimate drawings and sculpture. Talbot’s practice explores the complexity of our relationship with nature, technology and the world around us, combining myth and storytelling with futuristic perspectives to create thought-provoking works.
In Always in Transformation Talbot’s work offers a reminder of our fundamental connection to the natural world and to one another. In her body of silk paintings Everything is Energy, human figures, rock formations, flowing water, plants and trees are imbued with a living energy—suggesting an ecosystem in which all elements are interconnected. Ideas of transformation and continuity are central to her practice. Talbot’s process often involves intuitively making drawings before delving into extensive research, intertwining her findings with myth, memory and observation to tell the stories of our time. Her sculptural forms extend these ideas into three dimensions, giving physical presence to concepts that might otherwise remain intangible.
Image 1: Installation view, Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, Hales London, 23 April - 22 May 2026.
Image 2: Emma Talbot, Magical Garden, Fuchsia, Parsley, Venom, 2025.
Image 3: Installation view, Emma Talbot, Always in Transformation, Hales London, 23 April - 22 May 2026
Image 4: Emma Talbot, Rootless Plant, 2023
Photos by Damian Griffiths
#EmmaTalbot
A new installation PSYCHE, commissioned as part of the contemporary artist series, in dialogue with works from the museum, is now open.
In response to the Thorn Prikker Mural ‘The Ages of Man’ 1923 life cycle,
my installation ‘Psyche’ describes life as messy, always in flux, multiple and in chaos.
It explores applications of knowledge and the development of artificial intelligence in our lifetime.
In contrast to Prikker’s seasonal cycle, in which man holds the world in his hands, controls nature and holds dominion, the world in my painting is under pressure.
A conscious planet, too hot and too cold.
A baby born into a whirlwind, into flames.
Terrestrial beings blown about by the storms of our times, the dynamics of power, extraction and exploitation.
Life and death are continual, figures fall and rise.
Seasonality collapses.
Tides build, junk piles up, information overloads.
A 21st century pioneer reaches out towards other planets, in a new wave of colonisation.
The other panels describe an artificial meta-world, a smashed mirror. Continual self-reflection, an oil slick of anxiety, dependency and fear.
Pouring ourselves into AI, soul scraping, being mined for our humanness.
Robots move into outer space.
Other textile works, made of digital and machine knit and hand sewing/applique reference the asteroid Psyche and the Moon. 🌙 🌑 🌒
Sculptures mirroring modernist scientific models (and abstract modern sculpture) litter the space.
Great to have had the support to develop this work, thanks
#contemporaryart #emmatalbot #kunstmuseenkrefeld #psyche
solo show, opening 17 May.
As part of the programme of contemporary artist interventions with the Kaiser Wilhelm Museum collection Krefeld Germany, I was invited to respond to Thorn Prikker’s life cycle mural in the museum.
I wanted to describe life now, at this point in time, in a volatile world.
Life is messy and complicated.
We’re terrestrial beings on the brink of expansion into space. We’re entangled in nature and artificial systems. We’ve plundered this planet and now start to eye up the universe.
Have you ever wondered why Greenland is of so much recent interest in geopolitics?
It provides one of the most stable locations from which the activity of satellites can be controlled.
AI has sped up the development of robotic capacities, meaning that planets such as the moon can soon be mined for their metals and minerals, an activity controlled by satellites.
These metals/minerals are necessary resources for the development of technology.
NASA currently has a project to explore the asteroid Psyche, a mass of such materials, which, if mined, is proposed to be worth 700 quillion dollars. (If shared with everyone on Earth, that would make each person a billionaire).
We’re subject to a space race, a race for abundance beyond anything we’ve experienced before,the expansion of human into fields beyond anything we’ve known.
To develop artificial intelligence, we’re all feeding machine learning, pouring our souls-our psyche into chat 💬 software. We’re being mined ourselves.
The installation questions what we are, what we’re becoming and where we’re going. It asks what matters and what makes us human. What is consciousness and is it shared.
#posthuman #contemporaryart #kunstmuseenkrefeld
#emmatalbot
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Emma Mendelssohn Talbot's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.53%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 65 followers. An average post collects 348 likes and 11 comments, close to 32 likes for each comment.
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Emma Mendelssohn Talbot (@talbot.emma) is an Artist creator on Instagram, also filed under Art & DIY. Emma Mendelssohn Talbot is set up as an Instagram business account. The Instagram bio for Emma Mendelssohn Talbot runs to 23 words.
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Emma Mendelssohn Talbot has 22,435 followers on Instagram (22.4K). Emma Mendelssohn Talbot follows 7,192 accounts, so the audience is roughly 3.1 times the size of the list followed. Emma Mendelssohn Talbot has built a substantial archive of 1,294 posts.
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Emma Mendelssohn Talbot's engagement rate on Instagram is 1.53%, between 1% and 3%, or 1 to 3 likes and comments per 100 followers. On a typical post that comes to about 1 like or comment for every 65 followers. An average post collects 348 likes and 11 comments, close to 32 likes for each comment.
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