Laura Lancaster Artist Talk
- Lucy Archer
- Feb 20, 2017
- 1 min read
Lancaster is a former Northumbria University student who is currently working at the Workplace galley in Gateshead. She is a contemporary painter, with her work being based from found photography/images from various sources. The backbone of the found imagery is highlighted through the paint, using it to tease out certain threads of the photographs. Lancaster is interested in the ideas of the uncanny and that a photograph being a type of memorial for a person. She enjoys playing around with scale and is intrigued by how the image changes when the size is distorted, believing that the scale can change the power of the image and that it has more of a psychological charge.
Part of the reason I enjoy working on a larger scale is because it has more of an emotional impact, so I agree with her on that point. It makes the work seem more powerful, as a lot more work has gone into it physically and perhaps mentally. It was almost like I could see her movements in the paint. I enjoyed her painterly style; I have been told I have a painterly style, however it has a different effect to Lancaster’s way of working.
