Portfolio – Philippa Lawrence

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2023, EXHIBITION Hand cut world map. Shown at Decennium, Hestercombe Gallery, Cheddon Fitzpaine 22nd March – 7th July 2024. One in a series of map and atlas works that speak of a rapidly changing world and issues related to climate emergency.

Atlas of Tears

2009 – ongoing, EXHIBITION The cut-out shapes can be read as both tears and droplets of water, emblems of loss as we mourn for lost habitats and think of water emergency

Yarn Drawing III

2024, STUDIO, EXHIBITION Pegboard and cotton yarn. A series of drawings with yarn – working on repetition and pattern. The pegboard is worked until it is almost ‘bound’ with interconnecting lines of colour.

White Study IV

2022, EXHIBITIONOne in a series of 6 sewn works that reference landscapes – the internal psychological realm as well as those we might see as islands from the air. Piercing and binding are employed to create delicate patterns that appear as topographical studies of imagined lands.

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1995, EXHIBITION Seared sheepskin parchment. A very early work shown here as it remains pertinent to ongoing studio works that explore materials and processes to speak of fragility, damage and beauty.

Into Being

2005, EXHIBITION Photogram on fibre-based paper. An early work with its first representation in A Space Between at Thelma Hulbert Gallery. The photogram works could be described as ‘drawings with light’. Conceptually it relates to seared sheepskin parchment works, in both I was thinking about genetic fragility and how beauty can be created through damage.

Untitled, 2023

2023, STUDIO Conte drawing on Arches paper. In the studio works are returned to over time, like an ongoing conversation. The tear motif seen in the map and atlas work are being further explored in materials such as gold and glass and wood veneers.

Stack, 2020

Commission/Exhibition, 2020 Throughout 2016-18 Philippa Lawrence studied tree stumps, stacks of logs and cut wood in Hestercombe’s grounds, making two site responsive works Shift & Stasis, transforming fire-wood and tree stumps through the process of French polishing..

1-2-1

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Open-Up, Hestercombe

2020 , EXHIBITION Open-Up: Hestercombe Gallery unveils a series of lockdown-inspired outdoor artworks. Hestercombe Gallery is proud to unveil a brand new series of outdoor artworks commissioned in response to the Covid-19 pandemic.