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Lorrain Mailer British Artist Exhibits in United Kingdom and Brazil Located Ashford, United Kingdom Equilibrium - 2 to 23 September - Rua Pelotas, 398, Vila Mariana, Sao Paulo, Brazil AVA returns to Chartham - 7 October to 16 December (Saturdays only) - Chartham Vineyard, Canterbury
MA Fine Art - University of the Creative Arts 2020
VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists BA Fine Art – University of Kent 2016 BA Information & Editorial Design - Middlesex University 1984 Using repetitive processes, my practice is one of enfoldment. Fragile, seemingly ephemeral, inconsequential and often using transparent plastic substances, my sculptures and drawings are made from every day, single use materials, achieved through a labour-intensive craft process of duplication or wrapping. This process of enfoldment is a cathartic and haptic methodology, allowing me to spatially process my sense of grief and loss through the function of my body. To offer a connectivity, that contradicts the empiricism concept of time; where human nature must be continually retaught, to change the default setting of domination, discrimination and double standards. My wrapping processes are suggestive of acts of preservation yet the resulting sculptures, reflective of my mental analysis, lack substance, durability or essential transformation. Repeating early man’s stick people in my drawings to replicate the swarming migration and exploitation of our natural resources in the name of progress, ideology and humanity. Yet there is also a problematic challenge rooted in my sculptures due to the ubiquitous plastic material employed, resulting in questions that affects us all, as an intrinsic part of our modern industrial society. Plastics endure, with an outcome still not known, breaking into ever smaller particles to become absorbed into matter. It’s tenacious longevity, taking trillions of years to disintegrate, has the same charaterists of conventional and traditional sculpture which uses stone. The future is unclear, yet remaining embodied in layers of adhesive, will be the trapped traces of the human hand, hermetically sealed in the moment of construction, as a fragment in evolution. My prevailing concern with plastics has become increasing focused upon the throw away man-made plastics already in existence and with looking at the evidence of our prehistoric creative mind to find a way forward in resolving what has already been manufactured. Leading to the question, is there is a connectivity between our dependency on plastics with our natural intuition to exploit everything around us and will this inevitability facilitate our extinction. CONTACT: mailer-howat_l@sky.com PUBLICATIONS
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SOLO 2023 I sit and talk to God - St Mary's, Sellindge The Orbit of the Egg - St Mary's, Sellindge 2022 Faceless - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge A Sea Change - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge Open Studio - Stone Hill, Sellindge The Last 24hrs - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge 2021 . . . and now you don't - Little Swift, Margate Enfold - Instalation at St Mary's, Sellindge 2018 Faceless - Strange Cargo, Folkestone to commemorate Armistice day Open Studio - Stone Hill, Sellindge 2016 The Elephant in the Room – University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge 2015 Water as a Stone – University of Kent, Tonbridge 2014 Salted Caramel – University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge COMMUNITY PROJECTS 2023 Art in the Park - Victoria Park, Ashford Silver Queen 2 King III - School Project at St Mary's, Sellindge 2022 Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge Grief Letter - Natalia Millman's ongoing community based project Mellow Out Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge 2021 Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge Mellow Out Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge Message in a Bottle - Community Wellbeing - St Mary's, Sellindge 2020 Breathe out - Sessions for service users - Kent County Council - Ashford Loafing Around - Catching Lives Homeless Shelter - Canterbury 2019 Harvest Tapestry - Stour Downs Parish - Smeeth invisible made tangible - 13-16 yrs. olds - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Spatial with Anna Baranowska - 13-16 yrs. olds - National Saturday Club, UCA, Canterbury COLLABORATIONS 2023 SEOS Open Studio - St Mary's, Sellindge 2021 VOID 2020 - invited by Jane Cordery - Horsebridge, Whitstable 2018 WAVELENGTHS with Jane Cordery - Arts Forum, Hastings - curator/artist 2017 Inverse Reflection with Sally Meakins - Arts Forum, Hastings 2016 repeatrepeatrepeat with Sophie Barnett - University of Kent, Tonbridge 2015 Uncharted Waters with Jane Cordery – Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable 2014 Snakes & Ladders with Jane Cordery – Horsebridge Gallery, Whitstable SELLECTED GROUP 2023 AVA returns to Chartham - Chartham Vineyard, Canterbury Equilibrium - Rua Pelotas, Sao Paulo, Brazil Sea Us - St Mary's Community Centre, Rye 30works30days - Instagram & Online hosted by ArtQuest Reflections in Time - AVA at the Creative Centre, Rye Narrativas - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil 2022 Reflexo - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil We Are Here - Cambridge Artworks, Cambridge Interlude – Espaço Ira Rebella, Sao Paulo, Brazil Consumption - Issue 24 - Haus-a-Rest Art Zine @haus_a_rest Time Project - tebbsgallery.com + book 30works30days - 12Ø Collective + Art Quest Chronos - Echo's Studio, Sao Paulo, Brazil The Open - Turner Contemporary, Margate 2021 I'm not a Number - Tin Tabernacle, Hythe 30works30days - 12Ø Collective + Art Quest Fragment - Pragmata Collective - Online The Virus that came to Tea - @r_is_n.projects + r-is-n.projects - Online Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize – selected 3 March, Instagram 2020 VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Online Ibero-American Exhibition MA Degree Show - UCA - Online pop up 2019 "I make art about . . ." - Joseph Wales Gallery, Margate Mrs Dalloway & Mrs Ramsey - Derek's Room, University of Kent, Canterbury Tug of War - Alex Walton, Curating MA, UCA, Canterbury Postcards - Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne WAVELENGTHS 2 - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks Actants - Beaney Museum, Canterbury Pint Sized - Brewery Tap, Folkestone 2018 Postcards - Devonshire Collective, Eastbourne Members - Arts Forum, Hastings 2017 Afternoon Tea/Works on Paper - Chiara Williams Contemporary Art, Margate This is Tomorrow - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks This is Tomorrow - University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham This is Tomorrow - University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge Assemblage - Arts Forum, Hastings Stains and Traces III - Arts Forum, Hastings 2016 Paper Works - Arts Forum, Hastings Tonbridge Festival - University Centre West Kent, Tonbridge In the Dock – University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham Textuality – University of Kent, Tonbridge Beginnings: Works in Progress – University of Kent, Tonbridge Turned Inside Out – University of Kent, Tonbridge An Unlikely Quartet – University of Kent, Tonbridge By Means of … - Arts Forum, Hastings Reinterpret – University of Kent, Tonbridge 2015 Chalk at Towner – Towner, Eastbourne In the Dock – University of Kent, Old Dockyard, Chatham Lying beyond what’s obvious – University of Kent, Tonbridge Fragmented Femininity – University of Kent, Tonbridge Once upon a Time – University of Kent, Tonbridge A Woman of No Importance – University of Kent, Tonbridge By Means of … - Arts Forum, Hastings 2014 Cabinets of Curiosity – The Museum, Maidstone One fine day in the middle of the Night – Singing Soul Gallery, Cranbrook Stains + Traces II - Arts Forum, Hastings Colour Block - Arts Forum, Hastings 2013 APT Creekside Open Selected by Paul Noble – Deptford, London 2011 APT Creekside Open Selected by Dexter Dalwood – Deptford, London RESIDENCY 2021 Threshold - Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone - Group 2019 Cabin Fever - The Cabin, UCA, Canterbury - Solo 2016 Bank Side, Canary Wharf, London - Group CURATING 2023 Chair of Ashford Visual Artists, since 2022 Faciliator at St Mary's, Sellindge 2019 - 23 2018 WAVELENGTHS - Arts Forum, Hastings 2016 Rio Return – University of Kent, Tonbridge 2015 And Where Were You? – Arts Forum, Hastings 2014 Back to back they faced each other - Arts Forum, Hastings | ||||||||||||||||
