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British Artist
Ashford, United Kingdom



FORTHCOMING
Reflections in Time - 7 to 9 April 2023 - AVA at the Creative Centre, Rye

St Mary's, Sellindge
The Orbit of the Egg - 26 March - 16 April 2023

Using repetitive processes, Lorrain’s practice is one of enfoldment.  Fragile, seemingly ephemeral, inconsequential and often using transparent plastic substances, her sculptures and drawings are made from every day, single use materials, achieved through a labour-intensive craft process of duplication or wrapping. 

Her process of enfoldment is a cathartic and haptic methodology, allowing her to spatially process her sense of grief and loss through the function of her body.   To offer a connectivity, that contradicts the empiricism concept of time; where human nature must be continually retaught, to change its default to domination, discrimination and double standards.  Her wrapping processes are suggestive of acts of preservation yet the resulting sculptures, reflective of her mental analysis, lack substance, durability or essential transformation. 

Repeating early man’s stick people in her 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 Lorrain’s 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, is like conventional sculpture, 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.

Lorrain’s 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 to facilitate our extinction. 




Lorrain is a visiting speaker / Facilitator at St Mary's, Sellindge / Co-ordinator for Ashford Visual Artists
With exhibitions in United Kingdom and Brazil.



VIA Arts Prize 2020 - runner up

MA Fine Art - University of the Creative Arts 2020

BA Fine Art – University of Kent 2016
BA Information & Editorial Design - Middlesex University 1984


SOLO
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
2022 
Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge
          Grief Letter - Natalia Millman's ongoing community based project
           Community Workshops - St Mary's, Sellindge
2021 
Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge
           Enfoldment - Community Engagement - 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
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
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 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 - with Ali Lees & Melanie Jordan
2019  Cabin Fever - The Cabin, UCA, Canterbury - Solo
2016  Bank Side, Canary Wharf, London - Group


CURATING
2022 
Co-ordinator of Ashford Visual Artists.
           Faciliator at St Mary's, Sellindge since 2019


2021  12 Days - Community Art Fair - St Mary's, Sellindge
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
 

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