Close Looking: Heather Phillipson on Emma Talbot

Heather Phillipson’s 'The Creeps' is written in response to Emma Talbot’s 'How the Web was Woven' (2009), an acrylic on canvas work with a variety of vignettes, spider webs, texts and mysterious figures. Reflecting the haunting, unsettling atmosphere in Talbot’s painting, Phillipson considers how an artwork can never be fully understood or described, but is something we can continually think with and learn from.

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A place to explore, reimagine and exchange ideas about culture through conversations. We invite artists, cultural practitioners and other thinkers to discuss themes connected to the Roberts Institute of Art (previously DRAF) programme and works in the David and Indrė Roberts Collection. Through dialogue, research and personal stories this podcast series dives into those elements that shape contemporary culture and the ways we see the world.