Exhibition Publication
Intimations: Eleanor Lakelin
Publisher: Empress Press London
Dimensions: 240 x 170
Pages: 72
Dimensions: 240 x 170
Pages: 72
£ 20.00
We are delighted to release the 5th edition of our series of publications, to accompany Eleanor Lakelin's upcoming solo exhibition.
The catalogue includes essay by writer Martina Margetts, along with an introduction by art historian Christian Larsen. The catalogue showcases the process of making the works for the show, with an interview between the artist and Sarah Myerscough elaborating on the show's themes and a selection of works and studio images.
'Intimations' marks the evolution of a growing cast of experiments in Lakelin’s articulation of the vessel form. Born amidst the overgrowth of memory and matter, perennial themes of liminality, entropy, and classical order continue to underwrite the work’s otherworldly spirit. A deepening dialogue between machined form and the chaotic emergence of burr is staged between each piece. Together they animate a universal physics of inside and outside, or void and containment, synonymous with the rituals and symbolism poured in and out of one of civilisation’s oldest object forms. Form is pushed to new limits, in certain instances turned inside-out, with surface and material becoming medium for something perhaps more akin to a mass, a figure, or a body. Allegories between the vessel form and personhood are here at their most corporeal. The evolving presence found in 'Intimations’ is one of a communion gradually coming into focus, a scene in which space begins to feel populated by beings of a different character.
Her sculptures are therefore complete in their essential incompleteness: the gaping holes, asymmetries, fragmented surfaces and shifts in scale are perfectly imperfect ‘bodies’ of experience: the tree, the person, the sculpture – three different lifespans distilled into one form. The dark and the light, which shape our practical and emotional experience of daily life, are fundamental effects in the works, some of which are bleached so white they appear as pure spirits; others are so dark they exude an equivocal power.
- Martina Margetts, writer, lecturer and curator, former Editor of Crafts
and Senior Tutor in Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
and Senior Tutor in Critical & Historical Studies at the Royal College of Art, London, UK.
Intimations: Eleanor Lakelin
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