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Sample/Elysium Programme: Mandy Lane – Artist Talk

Sample/Elysium Programme: Mandy Lane – Artist Talk

September 3 - September 3, 2024
7:30-9pm

This online event is for members of Sample-Studios, Cork, and Elysium Gallery+Studios, Swansea, only. Please email director@sample-studios.com to book your place.

Multi-disciplinary artist Mandy Lane will offer a personal reflection discussing her experience as a working artist and how her practice has been shaped by various challenges and opportunities such as creating work in poverty, balancing artist opportunities as a single parent and carer, facing rejection, navigating neurodivergence in relation to artist proposals, and engaging with the RCA and the London art scene.

Mandy Lane is a British artist born in 1980 currently studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art. She specialises in fugitive sculpture, film, and installation. Lane’s artistic practice delves into the intricate interplay of themes such as domestic space, motherhood, class, poverty, childhood memory, trauma, and broader inquiries into marginalised communities, displacement, and power dynamics within the familial construct. In recent developments, Lane’s artistic exploration has shifted towards the contemporary landscape of queerness, with a particular emphasis on LGBTQ+ visibility and representation.

Central to Lane’s artistic endeavours is the exploration of societal norms surrounding motherhood, with a focus on the home and family unit. Lane challenges and reframes contemporary boundaries inherent in societal perceptions of domestic space by interrogating the literal and metaphorical gap between parent and child. Through her work, Lane aims to unravel complex narratives, prompting viewers to reconsider conventional notions of identity, belonging, and intimacy within the familial context.
This event is supported by the Cork City Council Twinned City Scheme.

This online event is for members of Sample-Studios, Cork, and Elysium Gallery+Studios, Swansea, only. Please email director@sample-studios.com to book your place.

Multi-disciplinary artist Mandy Lane will offer a personal reflection discussing her experience as a working artist and how her practice has been shaped by various challenges and opportunities such as creating work in poverty, balancing artist opportunities as a single parent and carer, facing rejection, navigating neurodivergence in relation to artist proposals, and engaging with the RCA and the London art scene.

Mandy Lane is a British artist born in 1980 currently studying sculpture at the Royal College of Art. She specialises in fugitive sculpture, film, and installation. Lane’s artistic practice delves into the intricate interplay of themes such as domestic space, motherhood, class, poverty, childhood memory, trauma, and broader inquiries into marginalised communities, displacement, and power dynamics within the familial construct. In recent developments, Lane’s artistic exploration has shifted towards the contemporary landscape of queerness, with a particular emphasis on LGBTQ+ visibility and representation.

Central to Lane’s artistic endeavours is the exploration of societal norms surrounding motherhood, with a focus on the home and family unit. Lane challenges and reframes contemporary boundaries inherent in societal perceptions of domestic space by interrogating the literal and metaphorical gap between parent and child. Through her work, Lane aims to unravel complex narratives, prompting viewers to reconsider conventional notions of identity, belonging, and intimacy within the familial context.
This event is supported by the Cork City Council Twinned City Scheme.

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