NPA Lab | 2020

Emma Cousin

Established

Emma Cousin is an artist based in London. She is interested in exploring the normative tensions within contemporary society and employs a darkly comic and irreverent parade of female characters to do this.

Sam King

Emerging

Sam King is a British artist who’s work spans the mediums of painting, photography, and murals. His practice explores the human condition on an individual and social level. King was selected for the Liberty Specialty Markets Art Award (Popular Vote) in 2018 – 2019.

Sam King

‘Work in Progress’ (2020)

“I learned the importance of working as if you have an exhibition deadline, even if you do not. This is especially relevant in maintaining artistic development and output in a time like this when there is not much on. We also discussed the importance of working in a series or producing defined bodies of work, which is something I have always struggled to do.”

Sam King

‘The Spectacle’ (2020)

Oil on Canvas (150 x 100cm)

“I learned the importance of working as if you have an exhibition deadline, even if you do not. This is especially relevant in maintaining artistic development and output in a time like this when there is not much on. We also discussed the importance of working in a series or producing defined bodies of work, which is something I have always struggled to do.”

Emma Cousin

‘Double garage’ (2020)

 Oil on canvas (170 x 190cm)

It is a gift to be able to share anything we know with each other, to empathise, to listen and to collaborate in finding a way forward, to continue making.

 

Emma Cousin

‘New Dirt’ (2020)

Exhibition at Goldsmiths CCA

Emma Cousin is an artist based in London. Recent solo shows include: Solos at CCA Goldsmiths, London; Milton Keynes Art Centre; Dolph Projects, Lewisham Arthouse Gallery and Edel Assanti Gallery, London. Recent group exhibitions include: ‘Soft Bodies’ at Castlefield Gallery, Manchester; Jerwood Visual Arts show ‘Survey’ at The Baltic Newcastle, Bluecoats Liverpool and G39 Cardiff; ‘Ridiculous’ at Elephant West and ‘Ultra’ at J.Hammond Projects London. 

Emma is a visiting lecturer at Sotheby’s and teaches painting and drawing. Emma graduated from Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, University of Oxford in 2007. She started her own project space, Bread and Jam in 2015-17, which she ran for 2 years in her home in Brockley. She recently established the podcast ‘Chats with artists under lockdown’.