Lauren Gault
Lauren Gault
Lauren Gault is a Magheramourne and Glasgow based artist born in Belfast
She graduated from Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design in Dundee in 2008. Her recent solo exhibitions include: Galalith, Temple Bar Gallery and Studios, Dublin (2022), Cithra, The Tetley, Leeds (2021), C I T H R A, Gasworks, London (2020); forgets in knots, Kantine, Brussels (2019), drye eyes, Grand Union, Birmingham, (2019), O-n, The Workbench, Milan (2019), present cOmpany, CCA Derry~Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2018), lipstick-NASA, Jupiter Artland, Bonnnington (2015), fugue states, CCA Glasgow, (2015).
Artist Statement
My work is research-led and process-driven, considering the political, ethical and emotional implications of our changing interactions with matter and the environment. Engaging with multiple fields (including agri-policies, biomaterials, archaeology, and sound-image composition) my practice, active in its uncanny materiality, seeks to expand critical discussions around material sentience, future agri-relations and radical human/non-human interconnectivity.
I am currently thinking through ideas of presence, loss and agency (in relation to climate, crisis and grief) through researching: “enargeia" (the quality of extreme vividness, radiance or present-ness as a locating force); the ‘hyper-rural’; conservation and collections (using microfading techniques to explore light, access to future states and object lives); and the oscillation between ‘wildness’ and domestication in canine histories.