EXHIBITIONS/CV
WETODRY
LAUREN GAULT AND PERRI MACKENZIE
27 NOVEMBER - 18 DECEMBER
PREVIEW SAT 26 NOVEMBER, 7 - 9PM.
PERRI MACKENZIE PERFORMANCE LECTURE - 8PM
Sierra Metro Gallery, Edinburgh
EDUCATION
Born Belfast 1986
Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design 2004 - 2008
CURRENT/FUTURE EXHIBITIONS
The Extra Diegetic Gaze, Research and Production Residency, Scottish Sculpture Workshop, Lumsden, 2011
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Lacks, the duchy gallery, Glasgow 5 - 21st March 2010
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Who would you rather?, Intermedia, CCA Glasgow, 4 - 19 November 2011 (with Lauren Currie)
PULL, Exhibition Space, The Old Hairdressers, Glasgow, 2011 (with Lauren Currie)
2010
British Art Show, Fringe Exhibition, Wollaton Hall, Nottingham,
Showreel, Collective, Edinburgh (Screening)
BOLD TENDENCIES IV, Hannah Barry Gallery, Peckham, London
2009
They Had Four Years, GENERATOR projects
MOULT-IN Ashleigh Neuiwenhuizen and Lauren Gault, Lower Fower Gallery ,
2008
DAIS Tom Varley and Lauren Gault, Flat 9 Princes Street, Glasgow, 6-10 November
NOW I KNOW MY ABC'S Glasgow Studio Warehouse, Eastvale Place, Glasgow, 19-27 July
WHEN I STAND ON AN OPEN CART Wasps Studios Dennistoun, Glasgow, 13-27 June 2008
DEGREE SHOW Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee
16-24 STUDENT EXHIBITION Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh 16-27 February
2008 MEMBERS' SHOW GENERATORprojects Dundee, 26 January- 10 February, 2008 2007
4TH YEAR EXHIBITION Roseangle Gallery, Dundee, 26 January-10 February
2007 MEMBERS' SHOW GENERATORprojects, Dundee, January,
2007 THE GOLDEN HAMMER Lower Foyer Gallery with Henry Coombes, Dundee, 29 January-10
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Lauren Gault's sculptural and film works have an impressively assured air for an artist working at such an early point in her career. Pastel-hued objects, both lumpen and ornate, command the Duchy’s perfectly proportioned gallery space, comprising a body of works that forge a very personal sculptural lexicon. Suggestive, yet indiscernible forms toy with recollections and stir associations, triggering trips and slips of understanding and gently disarming our preconceptions of the work. Parts of these sculptures seem familiar: long wooden poles are reminiscent of bed posts or honey spoons and protruding MDF boards are similar to shop signs. But ultimately, these bewildering objects fall short of recognition. Gault toys with a strange symbolism, but there is a prevailing consistency, and it is this that draws in the viewer.
Placed in pairs, Gault's sculptural works become prop-like. As if detailing a narrative, dialogues emerge, and the four main groups of sculptures become theatrically entwined. Central to this aberrant and peculiar parable is an oneiric film sequence in which varying scenes are glimpsed from the lips of a scallop shell. As the exhibition title suggests, the artists' interest in Lacanian theory has heavily influenced her work, and although an accompanying text supports the artist's explicitly theoretical concerns, the disarming landscape that the artist has created outsells any readings of Lacan or Girard.Gault's sculptures feel at once familiar and estranged, a trope that signals her artistic ability to shape a new visual language with which to negotiate the stuff of the everyday. An artist to watch.
The List, Rosalie Doubal 2010
Line Magazine, Line Edition 2011
AWARDS/PRIZES
DVAA 2009 and 2010 Scottish Sculpture Workshop Residency
Studio residency SWG3
CURATORIAL PRACTICE
Vice-Chair GENERATORprojects 2008- 2009
Chairperson GENERATOR projects 2009-2010