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Using repetitive processes, Lorrain’s art practice is one of enfoldment. Fragile, seemingly ephemeral, inconsequential and often transparent, her sculptures are made from every day, single use 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 to the meaning. There is a problematic challenge rooted in Lorrain’s sculptures due to the ubiquitous plastic material she employs, resulting in a question 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, trillions of years to decompose, matches conventional sculpture materials, such as stone. The future is unclear, yet there will remain embodied in the layers of adhesive, trapped traces of the human hand, hermetically sealed in the moment of construction, a fragment in evolution. |
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British Artist, located near Ashford, United Kingdom
MA Fine Art - University of the Creative Arts 2020 BA Fine Art – University of Kent 2016 AWARDS 2021 Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize – Short Listed 2020 VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Exhibition Circle Foundation for the Arts - Honourable Mention Award FORTHCOMING 2021 . . . and now you don't - 17 May to August - Solo show - Little Swift, Margate An Art Society - 24 to 30 August - Tin Tabernacle, Hythe VOID 2020 - 22 September to 5 October - invited by Jane Cordery - Horsebridge, Whitstable Turner Contemporary Open 2021 - 22 October to 20 February 2022 - Margate SOLO 2021 . . . and now you don't - Little Swift, Margate Enfold - St Mary the Virgin Church, Sellindge 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 2021 Enfoldment - Community Engagement - St Mary the Virgin Church, Sellindge Message in a Bottle - Community Wellbeing - St Mary the Virgin Church, Sellindge 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 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 GROUP 2021 30works30days - 12Ø Collective + Art Quest https://www.thirty.works/artist/0338 Fragment - Pragmata Collective - Online pop up The Virus that came to Tea - @r_is_n.projects + r-is-n.projects - Online pop up Ashurst Emerging Artist Prize – selected 3 March www.instagram.com/theartprize/ 2020 VIA Arts Prize 2020 - Finalists' Online Exhibition https://www.viaartsprize.org/ 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 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 - May 2021 - INSTAGRAM
ArtRabbit www.artrabbit.com/people/lorrain-mailer/curator https://www.artrabbit.com/people/lorrain-mailer/artist YouTube https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2mafK0kcuOphGzJxVXBjZA https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzsFDJXWsVmTHXlyfwYzPRA Wavelengths https://wavelengths-woolf.weebly.com/ Landfillart http://landfillart.org/lorrainmailer/ lm-h 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 | |||||||||||||||