Emma Prempeh: The Softness of Late Bloom, 2025
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Emma Prempeh: The Softness of Late Bloom, 2025
The Hepworth Wakefield recently acquired a large painting—For the Last Time, 2024—by Emma Prempeh. To celebrate the acquisition, the artist created a limited edition print with hand applied gold leaf exclusively for The Hepworth Wakefield.
Produced in an edition of 40, this signed and numbered artist print offers an opportunity to own a work by one of the most distinctive contemporary painters working today.
The artwork
Prempeh’s edition, The Softness of Late Bloom, is a snippet of the painting Everything stays the same in Croydon, 2023, a scene depicting a front room where the artist’s mother and grandma rest, surrounded by brightly coloured interior. The interior is typical of black British, West Indian homes, often reflecting the bright colours and warm weather of the Caribbean. Prempeh chose to zoom in on her grandma who sits in front of a backdrop of flowers in a vase. For Prempeh the image evokes a sense of ageing, slowing down and embracing the beauty of silence. At 89 Prempeh’s grandmother has lived a long life and most of it in Britain, this snippet likens her to the life cycle of flowers. As we transition from youth to old age, so does the flower. They bloom, flourish, wither and decay.
The Softness of Late Bloom was created especially for The Hepworth Wakefield and is available exclusively through the Hepworth Wakefield Shop.
Edition details
Artist: Emma Prempeh
Title: The Softness of Late Bloom
Year: 2025
Medium: Digital pigment and silkscreen print with hand applied golf leaf
Paper: Somerset Velvet 330gsm
Paper size: 42cm x 32cm
Edition: 40, plus 3 artist’s proofs (APs) and 2 director's reserves (DRs)
Signed and numbered: Yes, on the verso
Price: £850
As is traditional in edition publishing, the price of the work will increase as the edition sells out.
Emma Prempeh (b. 1996) is a British artist with Ghanaian and Vincentian heritage based in London.
She graduated from Goldsmiths University of London in 2019 and later completed her MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art under the LeverHulme Trust Arts Scholarship. Her work is characterized by warm, darkened tones that evoke nostalgia and intimacy, often exploring themes of ancestral time, relationships and selfhood.
Prempeh uses materials like schlag metal to create dynamic visual changes in herpaintings, which she often presents in largescale installations. Recent exhibitions include In and Out of Time at the Ada\contemporary Art Gallery in Accra, Ghana and With Tenderness at Tiwani Contemporary, London.
Prempeh won the Ingram Collection Purchase Prize (2019), the Alumno Space Bursary award (2019) and was a participating artist in Bloomberg New Contemporaries (2019). Prempeh won the Valerie Beston Trust Arts award in 2022.
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