Born in 1976 in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Lawrence James Bailey currently works and lives in Amsterdam. Lawrence graduated with a BFA from the Hull School of Art in 1998. He was then accepted for a two-year residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, which he successfully completed in 2001.
“I spent many years as a child exploring the Post-Industrial ruins of 1980’s Britain before studying Fine Art at Hull School of Art and later at De Ateliers in Amsterdam.
My Work explores the fragile intersection of humanity and nature. I weave together diverse artistic influences such as the 19th Century Arts & Crafts movement, Romanticism, Pop Art and the rich visual language of Northern Renaissance portraiture along with my interest in contemporary outdoor adventure sports and 1980’s post-apocalyptic movies.
I craft images of figures in rough textile embroidery who appear suspended between worlds, their blank expressions (which invite the viewer to project their own interpretations) and vulnerable poses evoke a sense of uncertainty within the landscape. These figures are both part of the wilderness and at odds with it. They exist in a kind of liminal space between order and chaos, between domestic and wild, embodying themes of disconnection, transformation, and the tenuous balance between belonging and estrangement in a seemingly fractured world.
I want my work to invite contemplation of our place in the natural world and within our own self-imposed social conventions. It’s an invitation to question how we see ourselves within the order that surround us and the landscapes we inhabit. It’s a plea for us to embrace the diverse, the weird the unknown and everything which binds us to the wilderness which exists in our imagination.”
Lawrence has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions all over the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain and Latvia since 1995. These include for instance the ‘Rijswijk Textiel Biennale’ in Museum Rijswijk in 2019, ‘Brownsfield Research Centre’ at AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent in 2018 and ‘Survival Kit 6 / Utopian City in the Latvian Centre’ For Contemporary Art, Riga in 2014. With Galerie Bart Amsterdam since 2017, solo, duo and group exhibitions and fair participations, such as Drawing Room Madrid.
In 2020 Lawrence was artist in residence at AIR Guiniguada in Gran Canaria. In 2016 he won the Wonderlust photo contest organised by De Hallen in Haarlem and in 2002 he received a stipend from the BKVB Fund. His work can be found in the collections of the Amsterdam Museum, Europol, Huize Frankendael, the Amsterdam Graphic Atelier, CBK Amsterdam, Deiska, Hotel WOW and De Ateliers. In addition, Lawrence has been involved in the creation of multiple magazines and theatre productions.
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