Elysium Gallery invites you to the latest of its series of special online artist Zoom talks.
Speaker: Lauren Heckler
Date: Weds April 7th, 2021 7:30 PM UK time
IMAGE:Re-enactment of school photo with Raymond Williams in, Site Sit
experimental studio residency at Melville Centre of the Arts 2020.
This talk will put into conversation individual creative sensibility and
collective art making. Reflecting on Lauren’s personal sketchbook ideas,
her collaborative practice Site Sit with artist Sophie Lindsey, being a
member of the art collective SUll, a fine art lecturer and more. She
will be considering what links things together, defining a specialism,
and where the joy is.
Lauren is currently working on Temporarily Here to Stay, a Studio
Response public art commission for a housing development in Cowbridge;
sitting on the outcomes of an experimental studio residency at the
Melville Centre of the Arts, Abergavenny; exhibiting a performance for
camera work at Ty Pawb Open; and wondering how to produce the postponed
international mobile residency, Artist as Map Maker.
Lauren grew up in Llansteffan, a village at the mouth of the Towy
estuary in south Wales, studied a BA in Fine Art Critical Practice at
University of Brighton, and is now based and working from Abergavenny.
Instagram: @lauren.heckler