Lauren Keeley’s practice encompasses multiple processes of image-making mixing the cool, computer-precise style of digital fabrication with the warm, tactile quality of hand-made processes. Her lifelike works are made up of wooden panels which are layered together to create a relief: whilst portraying two-dimensional imagery they are physically very sculptural, acting as a sort of frieze on the wall. Keeley’s imagery ruminates on contemporary life – the individual within the mechanised, co-ordinated structures we are all part of. These observations are reduced to synthesised arrangements of shape, pattern, colour and form, in a bid to reflect these pressured, continuous systems we are all complicit in.
Lauren Keeley (b. 1986) obtained a MFA from the Slade School of Arrt, London and a BFA from the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford. Recent selected exhibitions include: Pretty Woman, Galerie Derouillon, Paris (2019); Frieze Focus, Frieze Art Fair, London (2018); Ortica, Frutta, Rome (2018); 31 Women, Breese|Little, London (2017); Liste, Basel (2017); Parallax Scrolling, Breese|Little, London (2017); GRANPALAZZO, Rome (2016); In a Year, Frutta, Rome (2015); Window, Supplement, London (2015). Recent residencies and prizes: Chelsea Arts Trust Bursary Award (2019), Porthmeor Studios Residency and Barto dos Santos Memorial Prize (2014). She lives and works in London.