Artist of the day: Artist of the Day, October 1, 2021: Lauren Keeley, a British emerging artist (#1380)

Lauren Keeley (1986) lives and works in London after graduating with an MFA from the Slade School of Fine Art, London and a BFA from the Ruskin School, University of Oxford. Recent group exhibitions include Frieze Art Fair, London; Slate Projects, London; GRANPALAZZO, Rome; and Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes. She has had recent solo exhibitions at Frutta, Rome and Supplement, London.

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.

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