LOUISE LAWTON creates work that vies
between the individual and the collective, the familiar and the
anonymous. These two divergences are expressed using different
styles and different mediums.
Lawton's more familiar work, for which she is widely sought
after, is made from charcoal and gesso on board. Renditions of
groups of figures and occasional elements of landscape are set
against white or grey charcoal backgrounds. Varying in scale,
these works display incomparable traditional techniques
manifested in a highly original and contemporary manner. Unknown
figures allude to notions of collective behavioural patterns and
the absence of identity.
Set against the above are portraits of family and friends using
oil applied to layers of resin. This work is personalized and
specific. They are intimate depictions that are both familiar
and personable which describe a subject as opposed to subject as
object.
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