Wednesday, January 27, 2016

Laura Lancaster - New Art Gallery Walsall

Laura Lancaster, Montage XI, 2015,Oil and acrylic on linen (diptych), 280 x 250 cm,110 1/4 x 98 3/8 in (LL0690) Courtesy the artist and Workplace Gallery

Laura Lancaster

The New Art Gallery Walsall

29 January - 8 May 2016

 

The New Art Gallery Walsall

Gallery Square, Walsall

West Midlands, WS2 8LG

www.thenewartgallerywalsall.org.uk

 

Open Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 5pm 
Sundays 12noon - 4pm (closed Mondays and Bank Holidays)

 

Preview

Thursday 28 January 2016, 6-8pm

 

Join us for the opening of our new exhibition.

Friends, family and colleagues welcome.

 

Laura Lancaster is a painter who draws inspiration from forgotten and discarded photographs and home movies, found in flea markets, charity shops and through ebay. Once precious and significant to someone, they are now detached from their original contexts and instead, they become animated through Laura's luscious, gestural and expressive application of paint. These lost and dislocated souls, caught in the ambiguous space between figuration and abstraction, compel us to reflect on time, memory and loss.

 

This exhibition will bring together a range of works by the artist including a new series of diptychs which are drawn from the very first and last frames of found super 8mm home movies. With the inclusion of sprocket holes and marks on the film, the paintings are portraits of the medium of film as much as their subject matter. The juxtaposition of the first and last frames implies the passing of time through the lost narrative that bind these moments together.

 

Laura Lancaster was born in Hartlepool in 1979 and she lives and works in Newcastle-upon-Tyne.

 

 

for further information on any of the works shown please contact: sales@workplacegallery.co.uk
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