LORRAIN MAILER
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Using repetitive processes, Lorrain’s art practice is one of enfoldment.  Ephemeral, fragile and often transparent, her sculptures are made from every day materials, achieved through a labour-intensive craft process of wrapping.

Her process of enfoldment is a cathartic and haptic methodology, allowing her to spatially process her concerns of a world order that is reluctant to change and where domination, discrimination and double standards appear to her to be increasingly prevalent.  ​Her wrapping processes are suggestive of acts of preservation yet the resulting sculptures, reflective of her mental analysis, lack substance, durability or essential transformation. 

​Through the multiple viewing angles stimulated through the transparency of many of her works, the revised, irregular forms empower the viewer to make their own analysis and conclusions. 
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 BIOGRAPHY
Located Ashford, United Kingdom

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MA Fine Art - University of the Creative Arts
                    
https://gradshows.uca.ac.uk/courses/fine-art/ma-fine-art-canterbury/

BA Fine Art – University of Kent
BA Editorial Graphics - Middlesex University
 


AWARDS
2020  
 VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Exhibition viaartsprize.org
          Circle Foundation for the Arts - Honourable Mention Award 


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FORTHCOMING 
2021   Offbeat Talks - Instagram online February
        
Threshold - 5-9 May with Ali Lees & Melanie Jordan - Brewery Tap Project Space, Folkestone
         Eolith Theory - dates between 4-20 June - SEOS, 
Canterbury
         VOID 2020 - from 22 September - invited by Jane Cordery - Horsebridge, Whitstable



SOLO
2018   Faceless - Strange Cargo, Folkestone to commemoration Armistice day
         Toast - Stone Hill Studio, 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   
  
 


​SOCIALLY ENGAGED
2020   Breathe out - Sessions for service users - Kent County Council, Ashford
          Loafing Around - Catching Lives Homeless Shelter - Canterbury
2019   Harvest - Stour Downs Parish: Smeeth, Mersham, Brabourne, Monks Horton, Stowting & Sellindge 
         invisible made tangible - 13-16 yrs. olds - Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks

         Spatial with Anna Baranowska - 13-16 yrs. olds - National Saturday Club, UCA, Canterbury



COLLABORATIONS
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



GROUP
2020   VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Exhibition viaartsprize.org
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
2019    Cabin Fever - The Cabin, UCA, Canterbury - Solo
2016    Bank Side, Canary Wharf, London - Group



CURATING
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

 

PUBLICATIONS
Offbeat Talks

online February 2021
Art Hole

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UCA
https://gradshows.uca.ac.uk/courses/fine-art/ma-fine-art-canterbury/
ArtRabbit
https://www.artrabbit.com/people/lorrain-mailer/artist
YouTube       
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mafK0kcuOphGzJxVXBjZA
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsFDJXWsVmTHXlyfwYzPRA

Wavelengths

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Landfillart
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https://www.lm-h.com/  
http://www.hastingsindependentpress.co.uk/arts/the-imaginary-becomes-real-in-the-light-of-surrealism-2-and-[inverse-reflection-a-vasudevan-the-literary-shed/  
http://hastingsonlinetimes.co.uk/arts-culture/visual-arts/surrealism-at-hastings-arts-forum  
Heys Richard, Ten Years of Chalk, Blurb Inc. Lewes, England  

 
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