EMMA IN IMAGINE FX MAGAZINE

Check out the august 2008 (on sale by July 1st!?) issue of classy art magazine Imagine FX for a feature on Emma where she is categorised as one of august's "3 top traditional artists" in the FXpose Traditional section. Her paintings are described as "fascinating"!

CONCILIUM PLEBIS IS UNVEILED!

You are invited to the unveiling of the first part of the Concilium Plebis project. Banks Mill Studios will be presenting the new paintings at their Summer Open Studios event.

"Banks’ Mill have invested much energy and resources into a number of embryonic ideas presented by artists over the last year and are delighted that several of these have now come to fruition. Both in terms of profile and diversity this latest display is set to raise the bar of artwork in the city to an unprecedented level.

A focal point of the Open Studios exhibition will be the unveiling of Concilium Plebis, funded by the Arts Council England. Artist Emma Tooth's Concilium Plebis (Latin for Council of Ordinary People) is a collection of portraits based upon the unlikely marriage of fine art and the ASBO generation. This unique juxtaposition of high-brow and low-brow has produced some astonishing results."

Banks Mill Studios 71 Bridge Street, Derby, DE1 3LB 01332 594170 info@banksmill.org.uk

LONDON'S AFFORDABLE ART FAIR 08

The next Affordable Art Fair in Battersea Park, London is on Thursday 23 - Sunday 26 October 2008 where several of Emma's paintings will be on sale courtesy of the Biscuit Factory Gallery, Newcastle.

110 galleries will exhibit a fresh line-up of contemporary art - all priced up to £3,000.

The fair’s relaxed atmosphere invites first time buyers to browse amongst the thousands of artworks, whilst seasoned collectors can seek out hot new artists.

SHORT NOTICE! SOLO EXHIBITION AT COMIC EXPO, BRISTOL

Mam Tor Daddy, Liam Sharp has decided at the last minute to host a mini-exhibition of Emma's paintings at Bristols Comic Expo on the 9th, 10th and 11th of may. Several of the first paintings from the Concilium Plebis series will be there and of course Emma will be on hand to incase anyone needs an overdressed gothic doll to take up space behind their stands...

AN EXCITING NEW YEAR - WITH HELP FROM THE ARTS COUNCIL!

It's already turning into an extremely eventful year for Emma! A brand new painting which is almost ready will be showing in Derby City Museum and Art Gallery on febuary 9th 2008 alongside portrait-treasures from the past 200 years or so from the museum's collection. The exhibition is called Gaze and will run till june 1st 2008.

Emma is thrilled to announce that her new project, Concilium Plebis has been granted Arts Council funding and work is starting immediately. Watch this space for more details and to see the paintings as they are created!

VISIT TERMINAL STATION!

Visit the new online multimedia gallery www.terminalstation.co.uk - they're really cool guys!

Here's what they say:
"Welcome to terminalstation audio & visual netlabel. we aim to manufacture a fundamentally diverse audio & visual netlabel, creating an electronic municipality in which unique delusions can be realised & released. we specialise in various artistic media. we are a digital .mp3 label, digital gallery & cinematic experience."

And as a bonus Emma is currently their Featured Artist, having just knocked her husband Owen Tooth from the top spot :).

EFFIGY

Shooting for Owen Tooth's latest film, Effigy has just completed.

Emma was rolled out in front of the camera once again this time to play big-haired witch character, Phyia, on a mission to destroy the innocent love between Arianne (Robin Lynn) and Japeth (Amir Bazrafshan). Watch this space for more info!

COVERGIRL, AGAIN

Well, actually this time it's one of Emma's paintings on the cover of a magazine - Chronicles magazine out feb 2008 features Emma's portrait of her dear husband Owen. An issue or two ago Chronicles had a feature on Emma which you can read here. Part 2 here.

EAST MIDLANDS CONTEMPORARY ART AUCTION AT THE DJANOGLY GALLERY

Striking self-portrait Emma 8 will will join 49 other artworks to form part of 2007's East Midlands Contemporary Art Auction at Nottingham's Djanogly Gallery.

The reserve price is set at £250 and purchases over £100 qualify for interest-free credit through the wonderful OWN ART scheme. For info and silent bids etc call 0115 951 3192.

The exhibition will run from from 14th -24th November with the actual auction beginning at 1pm on november 24th.

Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre,University Park, Nottingham, NG7 2RD.

Don't forget - 30th november sees the champagne reception for the private view of the Biscuit Factory xmas exhibition in Newcastle. Emma's paintings are also still to be seen at: View Two Gallery, Liverpool; Maison Amour, Duffield and Friargate Studios, Derby

HOTTING UP FOR WINTER!

A brand new painting (it's not even been started yet!) will be showing in Derby City Museum and Art Gallery on February 9th 2008 alongside portrait-treasures from the past 200 years or so from the museum's collection. The exhibition will run till june 1st 2008.

With working on commissions, teaching, training, chicken -cuddling and launching a MAJOR new project or two (watch this space!) Emma' beginning to feel there simply aren't enough hours in the day!

THE BISCUIT FACTORY

Newcastle's Biscuit Factory gallery (Britain’s biggest original art store with 35,000 square feet with two floors of exhibition spaces and two floors of artists’ studios) has snapped Emma up for their blockbuster xmas show, they have also requested to be her sole representatives for the whole Newcastle area.

Friday 30th November - Gallery Opening – Champagne Reception held from 6-9pm.

INTERVIEWS

Emma's 13 Questions interview is now up at www.sequentialtart.com.

Sequential Tart is a respected webzine, "published by an eclectic band of women" with a wonderful mission statement: "to raise awareness of women's influence in the comics industry and other realms."

Emma has also done her most in-depth interview so far in Chronicles magazine, "Life as a work of art the art of Emma Tooth" (vol2. issue 6) read part1 and part 2.

LIVERPOOL SOLO SHOW

June 7 - 20 2007 Emma will have a solo show with The Art Organisation (TAO) at their flagship space, The International Gallery 34A Slater Street, Liverpool.

TAO specialise in taking disused and derelict spaces and transforming them into galleries - making them a great choice for Emma's crumbling-grandeur aesthetics.

LAST CHANCE TO VOTE!!
EAGLE AWARDS - VOTE FOR EVENT HORIZON NOW!

Event Horizon 2 (Mam Tor's Event Horizon 1+2 being the graphic novel anthologies Emma has sections in) has been officially nominated for an Eagle Award for best colour UK comic category!

We need votes in order to stand a chance against the usual suspects 2000AD. It's a David and Goliath kind of a struggle - lets "stick it to the man" as they say!!

**VOTE HERE:**
http://www.eagleawards.co.uk/vote.asp

To celebrate you can purchase a copy of Event Horizon 2 half price at www.mamtor.com

It's the comic equivalent of the Baftas - voted for by the lovers of the medium, not the industry - so it's extra special. Voting is easy and quick, you will be asked for an email address to check you're not just one of the artists voting over and over but you will not be spammed!

The results will be announced at the Bristol Comic Expo on may 12th by Norman Lovett!!!

EXHIBITION BENEATH PARIS

Soiree at Les Caves, Paris.
Friday 13th April 2007

www.lescaves.org

Emma and Liam Sharp, along with Pat Mills and Olivier Ledroit, travelled to Paris with books and paintings for what turned out to be an underground Gothic Soiree rather than the usual comic event. Fortunately Emma was already dressed for the occasion and signed a few books, drew a few sketches, posed for some photos and broke a few hearts - and a good time was had by all! See the photos here.

MAGAZINES

Emma's work will be appearing in 3 magazines this spring and strangely all 3 have chosen to print the same painting - Page 2.

Reflections is a "targeted" lifestyle magazine (ie it is distributed only among wealthy homes in Derbyshire!!) running an article on the forthcoming Derbyshire Open Arts event; Imagine FX is a digital art magazine available in all good newsagents who are running an interview with Liam Sharp on Event Horizon and the comics industry in general and Sequential Tart is a respected webzine, "published by an eclectic band of women" with a wonderful mission statement: "to raise awareness of women's influence in the comics industry and other realms." They will be publishing Emma's 13 Questions interview in May to coincide with the Bristol Comic Expo.

FRANK RETURNS

Big Frank's Triptych has made it's long-awaited return to Friargate Studios after a tour of duty in Liverpool.

BRISTOL COMIC EXPO 07

Bristol's Comic Expo will be welcoming back Emma and all the usual Mam Tor suspects for another round of booksigning and debauchery on 12th and 13th may 2007 check official website for details.

"THE OPENING" UK PREMIERE

Owen Tooth film The Opening (trailer and info here) which Emma collaborated on and appears in will get its first festival showing at Nottingham's Bang festival on march 24-25th

MEET MADAM GEIST - EMMA'S COMIC-COUNTERPART!

Emma has been invited to paint a pinup page for French bande-dessinee-favourite Barkmann's new book about the esoteric adventures of Madam Geist.

Madam Geist, you may have guessed, is actually modelled, at least in part, on Emma!

Additionally Emma is expected to be in France again up to her usual booksigning antics twice more this spring in Paris tbc and in Caen march 31 to april 1st.

THE OPENING IS COMPLETE!

Finally, the paradoxically epic short film by Owen Tooth featuring Emma in her debut cameo role is completed.

Although for licencing reasons we can't yet offer the DVD for sale (but please email for reviewing copies) we can offer the trailer here on the info page. Enjoy!

MAISON AMOUR - for lovers of love

A selection of Emma's work will now be permanently available from new boutique/consultancy Maison Amour, a sumptuous love-themed shopping experience!

http://www.maisonamour.co.uk/

JUST WHAT THE WORLD NEEDS... AN EMMA DOLL!!!

Ok - bear in mind this is just what I hear on the grapevine and nothing's been confirmed yet but a toy company is very interested in making Mam Tor/Event Horizon toys based on characters from the books and peripheral Mam Tor activities such as Zombie Elvis and yes, there is discussion of an Emma Simcock-Tooth toy!!!

Now, everyone who knows Emma has known all along that it was just a matter of time - just imagine it, changeable removable hair, and accessories just like the real thing, a floatilla of miniature pampered show-hens and authentic oversized luggage for all the other Mam Tor characters to carry for her!

Fingers crossed!

BUSY RUN UP TO NEW YEAR!

Watch out for Emma all over the place at the moment! She is one of 3 artists selected to exhibit at the opening event of Derby's new Friar Gate Studios on November 15th 06 representing herself and Bank's Mill Studios of which she is now an associate member.

This is an invite-only event for Derbys "movers and shakers" and the list is full we're told, but fear not, as almost immediately after, she will be appearing with her paintings for 3 days at Banks' Mill Open Studios event 24-26th Novemeber 06. All are welcome and last year over 800 visitors attended!

Not forgetting of course Emma will be hopping on the Eurotunnel again to France with some work for Lille Comics festival 8+9 december 2006, La Halle aux Sucres et La Cave des Célestines dans le Vieux Lille.

SO MUCH NEWS!

There's so much to keep up with lately!

Firstly The Liverpool Biennial/Living Market and The Nottingham Open Exhibition are both now underway with 2 more dates at the Living Market still to go. Emma will be showing a different set of paintings at each Art Market happening along with prints and cards etc in The Art Organisation's 52 Roscoe Street reclaimed-derelict project space accompanied by a range of other artists/makers and live musicians.

For a complete change of scenery The London Vampire Group will be hosting an exhibition of Emma's prints at their Requiem event on the 21st of October 06. 8pm-1am Penderels Oak Cellar Bar, High Holbourn, London.

Banks' Mill artist studios of Derby will be opening up to show the work of their own and associated artists including Emma, before Christmas. dates tbc.

Not one to miss an opportunity, Emma will be hopping on the Eurotunnel again to France with some work for Lille Comics festival 8+9 december 2006, La Halle aux Sucres et La Cave des Célestines dans le Vieux Lille.

A brand new art gallery/boutique/consultancy will soon be opening in Derbyshire - Maison Amour will represent a number of creatives including Emma working on the shared theme of Love!

Emma will soon be getting involved with Liverpool's The South Bohemia Art Gallery so watch out for more exhibitions coming soon! And that will take us up to a busy 2007 with lots more dates planned!

NOTTINGHAM CASTLE

Emma's latest work, Clinic II will get it's first outing at the Nottingham Annual Open Exhibition 06 at Nottingham Castle from 7 October - 5 November open daily 11-4

Private view: october 6th 7-9pm

Nottingham Castle, off Maid Marian Way, Nottingham, NG1 6EL

DERBYSHIRE OPEN ARTS

Emma has been crowned Area Representative for Derbyshire Open Arts - the group responsible for opening artists workspaces to the public in the summer to sell and show work.

http://www.derbyshireopenarts.co.uk/

She will also be showing her work in the event next year. More details later.

NOW FOR SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT!

The London Vampire Group will be hosting an exhibition of Emma's prints at their Requiem event on the 21st of October 06. Club venue to be confirmed. Please email for details...

EMMA BACK IN FRANCE

Emma Simcock-Tooth est la femme vétûe d'une robe victorienne avec un pislolet sur sa cuisse et des oiseaux dans ses cheveux...

That's right, only months after causing a stir in the newspapers in Roubaix (see below) Emma will be back in France with an extended Mam Tor presence; Liam Sharp, Kev Crossley and Emily Hare again bringing Event Horizon goodness to the continental masses!

http://lillecomicsfestival.ifrance.com/
Lille Comics festival 8+9 December 2006
La Halle aux Sucres et La Cave des Célestines dans le Vieux Lille.

more details (in English) to follow hopefully...

AFTER LESS THAN 24 HOURS IN FRANCE EMMA'S IN THE PAPERS!

Rough translation:

"Fanatical/passionate about comic strips?

At 8am yesterday (oh yes..) some enthusiasts were already waiting in front of the Public Square for the opening of the first comic strip and graphic art expo. This is set to continue this Sunday.

There has been an impressive audience since the opening of the expo where people can discover comic strip authors and material - a shop which has allowed Emma (above), English artist/designer, to discover France for the first time!"

Emma has returned from a very succesful and enjoyable Salon de la Bande dessinée et des Arts Graphiques de Roubaix. The biggest difference she discovered was just how polite and "gallant" the French are and how much better-dressed the comic audience is there! Rather than being the stereotypical "comic geeks" the audience were families, middle-class people, older people, a real mixture and the gap between "Fine Art" and comic art is much smaller there, where comic art is valued much more highly by a wider audience. Plus, with a European convention its all expenses paid all the way!

Additionally, Emma stuck out like an even sorer thumb in France than she usually does in the UK because in Roubaix and Lille she was very much "the only goth in the village"! She made some very good friends - (Hi Emily! Hi David! Hi JJ! Hi Marlene and everyone else! Thanks for looking after us!)

Emma hopes to do more European cons in the future, even though travelling with paintings is hard work!

 

APPEARANCE IN FRANCE!

Salon de la Bande dessinée et des Arts Graphiques de Roubaix

Emma has been invited to appear at a French comic/ graphic art convention as a guest along with her work. The city of Roubaix will host the event on 2-4 june 2006 beginning at the Museum La Piscine (Art and Industrial Museum).

The press release reads:

Conviviality, originality, creativity and savoir-faire are the keys words of our event and the “Salon de la Bd et des Arts Graphiques” promises to become a yearly appointment with the Roubaisiens! Schedule of the salon:

Friday 2nd June, Museum “La Piscine” in Roubaix: introduction of the Salon

Saturday 3rd June, Condition Publique in Roubaix: 10:00 - 18:00

Sunday 4th June, Condition Publique in Roubaix: 11:00 – 17:00

EMMA'S MOVIE APPEARANCE

[view trailer]

MORE BOOKSIGNING!

Emma will be appearing again alongside the Mam Tor/ EVENT HORIZON crew for more booksigning, fun and games at Comic Expo in Bristol on saturday 13th and sunday 14th may 2006. See you there!

edit: Thankyou to all who attended, for your patience during our increasingly bizarre panels and a big hello especially to the lovley girls from Sweatdrop Studios!

Emma had a very pleasant meeting with a nice lady from Vertigo comics and is spending much of her time finding more and more interesting ways to cross her fingers...

BEST GRAPHIC NOVEL AWARD!

Event Horizon (the graphic novel anthology extravaganza that Emma's work forms a part of) has won the Best Graphic Novel Award at Sci-Fi-London 2006 (aka. The 5th London International Festival of Science Fiction and Fantastic Film)

BACK FROM BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005

See the gallery here!

What a lovely weekend! Emma and the Event Horizon crew shunned sleep entirely during a surprisingly sunny late november weekend to bring their unique creativity and party atmos to the Comic Expo at the Hilton amid the marble staircases and chandeliers.

Emma's paintings (YES, they're paintings and NO she didnt just pose for some man to paint them - incase you didn't get that the first 300 times round!!) hung at the Mam Tor table while drawing and booksigning and the odd bit of dalek-baiting ensued... dont ask... Emma's costume drew much attention and she took part in interviews and panels too. The book is fantastic and is now available and sold just under one copy for every 10 guests at the huge event!

BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005

Emma will be attending Comic Expo 2005 in Brighton (nov 19-20th, Hilton Metropole hotel). She will be easy to spot at the Mam Tor stand as she will be the one on Victorian costume as seen in the book! She will be available for booksigning and posing for photos and will as usual do everything in her power not to do sketches for punters as she hates working under pressure! There will also be a big panel event where the creators of EVENT HORIZON will be speaking and taking questions. Hopefully it will run more smoothly as I've been told it will have been planned - or at least thought about - more than 2 mins in advance!

The proofs of the book have arrived and I can tell you they look amazing! (even though Emma looks a bit sunburnt on one of her pages!) The book will be much bigger and better this time around!

Emma is now confirmed on the official guestlist and looks forward to meeting you all!

AND DON'T FORGET - IT'S EMMAS BIRTHDAY ON NOVEMBER 9TH!!!

EMMA'S FIRST EXHIBITION ABROAD! AMADORA COMICS FESTIVAL, PORTUGAL. OCTOBER 23rd 2005

Emma has been quietly hoping that she will get to show someting outside of her home country of the UK for some time now and at last it's happened! Today, thursday 13th oct, a courier is taking the few paintings she could find (2!) that weren't on ridiculously huge canvasses to Portugal.

She will be showing alongside some of her Event Horizon teammates including Liam Sharp and Dave Kendal at the Amadora Comics Festival.

AMADORA COMICS FESTIVAL Fabrica da Cultura, Rua das Industrias, Venda Nova, 2700 Amadora PORTUGAL
Tel: 351 1 495 38 02 / 495 18 57 Contacts: Louis Vargas + Nelson Dona

EVENT HORIZON 1 - now available in... Italian?!

Prego... It's true, now you can read tales of testoserone run wild (and other things) in Itailian! Get your copy here!

PLUGGING EVENT HORIZON 2

IT'S NEARLY HERE! THE NEXT BOOK - EVENT HORIZON 2 Shipping date: November 22nd, 2005!

Picture reviews now up at Newsarama!; view a stretched, distorted version of one of my paintings - suberashii!

You can also download a PDF preview of the book here.

BRIGHTON COMIC EXPO 2005

Emma has just read online (they're saying lovely things on this forum!) that she is expected to attend Comic Expo 2005 in Brighton (nov 19-20th, Hilton Metropole hotel). This is the first she's heard of it but, yes, she'd love to go! Presumably it will be panels and booksignings again (sighs casually...)

EMMA GOES HEAD TO HEAD WITH NOTORIOUS TV CHEF GORDON RAMSAY

BUY EVENT HORIZON NOW!!!

What - you don't have a copy yet?!!

Don't despair! It has never been easier to buy Mam Tor's EVENT HORIZON what with it now being available on AMAZON.CO.UK and directly from MAM TOR.COM!!! Now it's going into it's second printing there's plenty of copies for everyone!

(You can only imagine how amused Emma is that her name is now indexed on Amazon!)

MORE EVENT HORIZON BOOK SIGNING!

Event Horizon has been declared a runaway success! At the booksigning at Bedford's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS bookshop it was revealed that Event Horizon was the fastest selling book they'd ever had; major distributors are putting in reorders as they are selling out and the book is approaching the very real possibility of a second print run!

Now you can see the all new galleries of the Bristol Launch and the Close Encounters signing!

Plenty of plans are underway for volume 2 and Emma is confirmed to be among the artists contributing - this time she will be writing her own story (a first for her!) and making all the paintings for the story (rather than having a story written around existing paintings, as was the case the first time round) the title will remain A Trace Of Fragile Bliss as in the first volume.

EVENT HORIZON IS HERE!

EVENT HORIZON is now available in shops in the UK and the US and is in process of being translated into Italian!

Emma enjoyed a weekend in sunny Bristol signing copies of the book at the Comic Expo with the other Mam Tor artists and even did a few sketches for lucky punters and suceeded in saying very little at the panel.

Perhaps best of all, when she left the Expo for her lunch in a local pub she was greeted with the sight of her own face on the beermats! (See beermats etc in scrapbook)

CLICK HERE FOR PHOTO GALLERY OF THE EVENT!

BOOK SIGNING

Emma will be appearing at Bedford's CLOSE ENCOUNTERS alongside Liam Sharp and other artists for more booksigning goodness on may 21st at 1pm (gallery)

Close Encounters, 59 Midland Road,Bedford, MK40 1PW comicsgamesfilms@aol.com

CONVENTION APPEARANCE

As promised below here are more details: Emma is listed on the website as one of the guests at Bristol's Comic Expo with everyone from Event Horizon. Details here. GOOGLE IT!! Look at it all! Word is getting around!! MAY 13TH PEOPLE!

You can now download a PDF rough preview of the material in Event Horizon.

More Press on the book at Newsarama.com (including quotes from Emma herself as well as other artists involved) and page previews at Broken Frontier

PREVIEWS

Here is the p/review of the Event Horizon mook below in this months Diamond Previews comic industry magazine - yes Emma is mentioned by name (!!) and again here in this review at Mile High Comics!

Click here to see pics of the HUGE pull-out advert in Previews magazine!

The book was also "staff pick"! Here's the review:

DOWNLOAD YOUR *EMMA'S FACE* DESKTOP WALLPAPER NOW!!!

Now you too can have Emma's Face(tm) on your desktop! Yes, it's true, and it's available at the Event Horizon/Mamtor website. Get yours HERE NOW!!!

EVENT HORIZON

EMMA GETS PUBLISHED! MAY 13TH 2005

BIZARRE MAGAZINE

If you are a reader of Bizarre magazine firstly shame on you and secondly you may have noticed this little photo...

You would not believe the attention it has attracted; from Italian writers wanting to make films with Owen to - wait for it - the Trisha Goddard show!!! Yes, it's true, Emma and Owen have filmed an interview with Trisha for her new, supposedly classier (it wasnt) channel 5 show! It will be aired in the next few weeks. "I did it for a laugh" says Emma. Emma is unsure of whether she actually wants anyone to watch it now though...

EDIT: The infamous Trisha episode as now been aired at least twice!

MODELLING CAREER

As you may know, Emma is a multi-talented creature (dilettante i believe is the word!) and now she can be seen on the ******* store website modelling a variety of clothing in (of course) her local cemetary. She was headhunted and propositioned when showing paintings at the State Of The Art Tattoo convention, and, never having been one to turn down an opportunity to cry "LOOK AT ME!!!" she rose to the challenge. Her disgraceful posing and preening can be seen here

Edit: links and names have been removed as shop owner turned out to be less than trustworthy.

THE WEDDING OF THE YEAR!

Emma has finally married the love of her life Owen Tooth after more than 8 years of unwedded bliss together.

Links to the Wedding gallery and Honeymoon gallery here

Cover Girl and Boy

Emma recently discovered that she and her beau Owen had become the cover girl and boy for dubiously named Norwegian music fanzine "Rimfrost"! See scrapbook.

First Solo Show in London

This is an open invitation to all of you to see Emma Simcock's first solo show in London. It promises to be a cracker, with loads of brand new, never before seen work painted especially for the show. See you at the Michael Naimski Gallery http://www.naimskigallery.com/ 6 - 29 May 2004.

**STOP PRESS!**

I have now been over there personally to give the paintings a good spring clean and hang them and I can honestly say I'm really looking forward to the show! It is really exciting to see ones work of many years all come together in one place. It's like Judgement Day - all my deeds are layed out side by side by side to be 'Judged' as it were. Well, I saw them as the halogen seemed to illuminate them from within and I'm satisfied!

It really is very satisfying to see them all together as they were intended. Even I've never seen them like that! I feel a sense of completion - like I'm ready to continue my work in and develop in new ways. Please watch with me to see what comes next; I hope it is a pleasant surprise for us all...

First Solo Show in London

Emma Simcock's first solo show in London is fast approaching. The date has been altered so make a note in your diaries

the actual date will now be 6th - 29th May 2004

The show will be held at the Michael Naimski Gallery. For more details please visit http://www.naimskigallery.com/

This will be the first chance to see the series of portraits and self-portraits Emma has worked on over the last 4 years all together and to see her Ophelia series based on actual underwater photgraphy she endured with the help of Arts Council funding this year. Click here to see the underwater fun!

UPDATE: This exhibition is being promoted by Will Paget of pagetbaker.com - the same PR company used by Saatchi and a host of other impressive names that can be seen on the website! You can contact him at will@pagetbaker.com for press information.

State Of the Art International Tattoo Convention

Emma Simcock (and her work) will be at the State Of the Art International Tattoo Convention again this year. (At their site there is currently a cute little animation running at the top of the page of Back In 5 Minutes!) Using their secure shopping cart you can purchase prints at any size of any of Emmas paintings. Prints and the paintings themselves will be on view and on sale.

The convention is held at The Assembly Rooms, Derby

Saturday 17th July 2004 Doors Open 1100hrs Assembly Rooms close at 2400hrs (midnight)
Sunday 18th July 2004 Doors Open 1100hrs Event finishes at 2200hrs (10pm)

see you there!

Art 2004 update

ART 2004 - The London Art fair is on at the Business Design Centre, Islington, N1 from14-18th January 2004. Find us at stand G33.

The paintings Emma will be showing are Cherie and 2 brand new, never-before-seen paintings (don't poke them as the varnish is probably still sticky!), Ophelia 5 and the very personal Mayonaka Ni Kawashita Yakusoku, celebrating Emma's engagement, painted during preparations for her forthcoming wedding.

Ophelia 5 is the most recent in the Ophelia series (as the title suggests!) but is the first to be based on actual underwater photgraphy Emma endured with the help of Arts Council funding. Click here to see the underwater fun!

The exhibition will be Cherie's first outing, and much to the delight of the real Cherie this image has been chosen to represent the Michael Naimski Gallery in the catalogue!

Funding

Emma has been fortunate enough to secure Arts Council funding for the expansion of her Ophelia series. This has allowed her to do a series of photoshoots underwater in costume to study the effects on herself, appearance and costume. Click here for details...

The results will be on show in Emma's solo show in London april /may 04 and with a bit of luck, elsewhere too. Ophelia is coming to a venue near you...

Art 2004

Emma has been selected to show work with the Michael Naimski Gallery at ART 2004 - The London Art fair. Apparently this is very high profile!

Heres what the Art Fair says about itself:

UPDATE: A cursory look through the enormous list of artists exhibiting has just revealed that Emma will be exhibiting alongside such names as Warhol, Lichtenstein, Picasso, Yves Klein, Henry Moore, David Hockney, Frank Auerbach, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Frink, Briget Riley, August Rodin and some guy called Damien Hirst...

TV Appearance!

Emma made her first television appearance on sunday 14th september speaking about the exhibition of Back in 5 Minutes at the State Of The Art international tattoo convention. She graced our screens around 5:30pm on ITV's Central News. She is expecting calls from Hollywood agents anytime now...

Capital Life Appearance

A section of Emma's now infamous painting, Back in 5 Minutes, features in full, glossy, glorious colour in new London lifestyle magazine Capital Life. The image appears with an article on Michael Naimski's burgeoning new gallery (issue: summer 2003. p.37).

If you are one of the sorry few publications left who have not yet featured Emma please email her to arrange a date for a photoshoot etc.

State Of The Art

The gigantic Back in 5 minutes was hoisted 20 feet into the air on friday night and suspended above the stage at Derby's Assembly Rooms for the weekend during the annual State Of The Art international tattoo convention from 13-14 september. Emma was also interviewed for ITV News!

The response was fantastic, especially considering the punters were there to see/ have their art on skin rather than on canvas. She is expecting to return with more paintings next year (provided she isnt too busy preparing to get married!) Big hello to Woodys Tattoo Studio and the biker gang she joined very briefly...

Wedding Bells

Emma Simcock would like to announce that she is getting married at last to the love of her life Owen Tooth after 7 years of virtually-married bliss. The date is set at Hedingham Castle for September 18th 2004. Guests are asked to wear semi-formal romantic black.

Arachne

The ultra-short film Arachne, created by Emma Simcock and co-directed with Owen Tooth is showing at Nottingham's Broadway Cinema on august 31 2003.

Hold The Front Page Again!

In fact, perhaps Emma should just start her own magazine! Her work on a mural featuring classic Jaguar cars has been featured in the Derby Evening Telegraph (click here for article) and her work will also be appearing in new London magazine Capital Life.

Upcoming Exhibitions

It has been confirmed that Emma will be exhibiting her huge painting, Back in 5 Minutes, at the State of the Art tattoo convention at Derby's Assembly Rooms later this year.

May 2004 will see her first solo show in London at the Michael Naimski Gallery.