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Emma Prempeh Quotes

b. 1996

Emma Prempeh (born 1996) London. Lives and works in London.

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As much as the work is asking, ‘What is home?’ I know that I have always found home in my loved ones: my friends and family.

It’s something I’m always going to be fascinated by and will always try to get a hold on.

It’s the experience of so many diaspora kids to not really know where you belong.

The isolation I was feeling is there in the project but only a little bit.

You can say it’s cliché but I don’t think it is.

I do feel lonely sometimes being a painter.

Being able to take my mum back to Saint Vincent is my greatest achievement,She hadn’t been back home since she was 16.

I wanted to form the show around the subject of home. I touch on it sometimes, but I’ve never delved into it properly until now.

When I was 16, I repainted my room and it took five layers of paint to cover up the shine in her eyes.

My mum isn’t creative and my dad doesn’t draw so I’ve always wondered where it came from, But since we were little there has always been creativity in the house and it was supported.

I met lots of abstract artists at the RCA and I learned how to be looser with things like background, I don’t need to completely fill out all the details.

But I’m an introvert so I don’t mind. I remember back in the 2020 lockdown, everyone wanted to go outside but I just felt like I was in my element.

I don’t actually decide, ‘Oh I want to paint this’ ahead of time. I just take pictures and document things, It’s when I look at it after that I decide what can go on to become a painting.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Emma Prempeh (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.