- Venue
- ArtSway
- Starts
- Saturday, September 20, 2008
- Ends
- Sunday, November 16, 2008
- Address
- Station Road Sway Hampshire SO41 6BA
- Location
- South East England
Exciting young British artist Laura Green will exhibit an installation of new paintings and sculpture at ArtSway this autumn. Laura was the winner of ArtSway’s Open07, and was awarded the prize of a solo exhibition in ArtSway’s gallery one. She was short-listed for the John Moores Prize in 2004 and 2006, a finalist in the Celeste Art Prize in 2007 and has exhibited widely both in the UK and internationally since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 2004. Her interest lies in the interpretation of her source material, often stripping away identifiable features from the objects (such as architectural drawings and found images) and places (such as buildings glimpsed around the city) she bases her paintings and sculptures on, deliberately taking them out of context. There is therefore a tension between the actuality of the sculptures (which possess a strange sense of clunky, yet sometimes elegant, minimalism) and the paintings, which allude to imagined and remembered scenarios. Green comments, ‘the subjects of my works often appear ambiguous and alien to their surroundings, possessing a haunting sense of ‘displacement’ which suggest that they are not of this time, and raise questions of whether the objects reside in the past or in the future?’.
