to Consider:
Prepared for Caroline Badouh
June 2025
“If You Could Talk What Would You Say”, 2025
62 x 70 7/8 inches
£22,000
39 3/8 x 31 1/2 in £11
“Searcher”, 2025
82 11/16 x 59 1/16 in
£23,500
23 5/8 x 19 11/16 inches
£7,000
£7,000
82 11/16 x 62 inches
£37,000
Laura Lancaster
“Out of Nowhere”, 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
82 11/16 x 62 inches
£37,000
“Stranger Powers”, 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
82 11/16 x 62 inches
£37,000
“Look For You in Everyone”, 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
82 11/16 x 62 inches
£37,000
59 1/16 x 47 ¼ inches
£27,000
Laura Lancaster
“Limbs”, 2025
Oil and acrylic on linen
31 ½ x 39 3/8 inches
£14,500
The source of Laura Lancaster's paintings, drawings and installations are found photographs, slides and cine films of strangers, found in flea markets and junk shops. The translation of these lost images into paint becomes an investigation into artistic control, a devotional act on the artist's part. With some installation works taking months to complete, the resulting anonymity imposed onto the subject provides a distancing mechanism. Lancaster often employs minimalist tactics, which offset the sentimentality of the source.
Lancaster's process-orientated practice forms an ongoing dialogue between the languages of painting and photography, focusing on the manipulation of the tension between the visceral qualities of the paint and the image it depicts. Lancaster embraces the ambiguity that results from this transformation process, allowing the everyday and mundane to take on odd, surreal qualities, becoming poignant melancholic icons. Once sentimental imagery opens up, and when painted takes on a universal, familiar quality, and allows the artist to reference numerous styles and genres of painting as well as touch the history of painting as a medium.
The figurative works evoke strong feelings of nostalgia and wistfulness, despite the anonymity of the subjects. Putting themselves forward as seemingly typical "snapshots" of family life, rather than being personal to the artist and exclusive, the intentional blurring of the works makes them impossible not to relate to; they sit warmly in the collection as little monuments to interpersonal relationships.
Lancaster was born in 1979 in Hartlepool, UK, and graduated from Fine Art at Northumbria University in 2001. Laura Lancaster is represented by Workplace Gallery, UK, www.workplacegallery.com
Rachel Lancaster
Rachel Lancaster's practice is focused on painting and its intersections with the languages of cinema, music and photography. Photographic ‘stills’ from found moving imagery, alongside an archive of her own photographs are selected from, edited and then translated into oil paintings. Lancaster's paintings represent detailed fragments of a greater narrative. She is drawn to seemingly insignificant passing shots, extreme close ups of inanimate objects, common place domestic interiors; the split second moments that are “in-between” the action. Divorced physically from their position within a narrative structure, these paintings become abstract, ambiguous and open ended as to the unknown events which have preceded or may follow. The process of remaking these images in paint is used to draw out the uncanny and the potential psychological charge within source imagery. The paintings are made by applying successive thin glazes of translucent oil paint, many layers of colour and texture accrue over time. This technique encourages a dichotomy of definition and abstraction. The surface of the paint creates an array of optical effects; the anticipated details within the surface of the paint often give way to loose and minimal rendering on closer inspection by the viewer. Cropping, colour and mark making are manipulated in order to play upon the latent 'otherness' and dreamlike qualities often found in cinema and how this can be reflected in painting.
Rachel Lancaster (b.1979, Hartlepool, UK) lives and works in Newcastle upon Tyne, UK. She completed her MFA in Fine Art at Newcastle University and her BA in Fine Art at Northumbria University.Lancaster has exhibited widely and taken part in numerous projects, performances and artist residencies both nationally and internationally. She has been included in group exhibitions at The Auxiliary, Middlesbrough, UK; Elysium Gallery, Swansea, Wales, UK; Art Spot Korin, Kyoto,
Japan and Venice, Italy; Royal Academy, London, UK; Rye Art Gallery, Kent, UK; Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK; Baltic 39, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK; and Kotti-Shop, Berlin, Germany.
Lancaster is the recipient of Ares Mosaic Art Prize, BEEP Painting Prize, and was shortlisted for the Contemporary British Painting Prize. She was Artist-in-Residence at Alewive Brook Road in New York, the former residence and studio of Elaine De Kooning. Her work is held in multiple private collections.
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