Concilium Plebis by
Emma Tooth
Emma Tooth
Concilium Plebis
Private View
Thursday 4th November 6pm till 9pm
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Emma Tooth
Concilium Plebis
Private View: Thursday, 4th November, 6 to 9pm
RSVP by the 3rd October, 4pm to be included on included on
the guestlist. Please bear in mind that guests are +1 only.
The show dates are the 5th to 27th November, 2010.
For any information or to discuss these works please contact:
The Outsiders
[email protected]
+44 203 214 0055/66
All prices incl. VAT
Cover Image:
Concilium Plebis 16
Oil on Canvas
2009
63 cm x 51 cm
8 GREEK STREET | SOHO | LONDON | W1D 4DG | TEL: 0203 214 0055/66 | WWW.THEOUTSIDERS.NET
Press Release
The Outsiders is pleased to announce Emma Tooth’s first London solo exhibition
Concilium Plebis in The Dungeon. Comprising of her extraordinary portraits of ordinary people, Tooth explores the medium of portrait painting in the 21st Century.
Depicting British street culture through the style of traditional history painting Tooth
confronts our preconceptions challenging the viewer with her subject matter: the
‘People’s Council’.
Clutching a bottle of beer or a mobile phone dressed in the street-wear uniform of
hoodie tops and baseball caps. Tooth’s sitters are transformed both compositionally
and stylistically into the guise of saints and icons. Just as Caravaggio employed prostitutes and criminals within his work, Tooth immortalises the common people (or
plebs) rarely depicted favourably within the tradition of oil painting. This technique
bestowes a sense of importance and historical weight to her subjects’ existence.
Reality and illusion simultaneously prevail on the canvas through her contemporary
take on a classical investigation of self-image and self-presentation.
Humans relate to images of other humans, particularly faces, on a visceral, subconcious level; this is why portraiture is especially powerful and relevant. After layers of
meaning and concept are stripped away, that relationship remains. My images can
be very intimate and very personal, drawing on my own lived experiences of Love,
sadness and joy.
- Emma Tooth
In each of the guilded-framed portraits, Tooth masterfully mimics Caravaggio’s trademark use of chiaroscuro (contrasting light and dark), giving her subjects a celestial
glow that further adds to the aura of divinty.
- Christopher Collett, The Metro, February 2009
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 13
Oil on Canvas
2008
91 cm x 60 cm
£6,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 14
Oil on Canvas
2009
63 cm x 51 cm
£4,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 16
Oil on Canvas
2009
63 cm x 51 cm
£4,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 2
Oil on Canvas
2008
91 cm x 60 cm
£6,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 3
Oil on Canvas
2008
102 cm x 76 cm
£4,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 11
Oil on Canvas
2008
102 cm x 76 cm
£4,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 24
Oil on Canvasboard
2010
31 cm x 25 cm
£2,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 10 (Before A Fall)
Oil on Canvas
20108
77 cm x 102 cm
£6,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 21 - Pieta with the Telly on
Oil on Canvas
2009
102 cm x 77 cm
£6,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 4 - Study
Oil on Panel
2009
24 cm x 20 cm
£1,800
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 3 - Study
Oil on Panel
2009
24 cm x 20 cm
£1,800
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 22
Oil on Canvas
2010
102 cm x 77 cm
£6,000
CONCILIUM PLEBIS 7
Oil on Canvas
2008
73 cm x 103 cm
£6,000