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Lauren Fo


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2011 by the author of this book, Lauren Fox.Lauren Fox retains sole copyright to her contributions to this book.


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Lauren Fo


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Artist Statement

In my own skin

Welding

INSTALLING

Life Models

Wood & mixed media


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Welding, carving, painting, drawing, thinking. I live and learn,

try, I push myself, I love, I breathe, I hope, I fail and I carry

Every day is dierent, my world is dierent, I am di

ent. I am exploring, playing, struggling, learning and grow

I love this challenge, and when I dont love it any more I try and remind

self why I am doing it. To understand, and to be understood, to create joyexpress pain, learning new skills that help me do it better each time I try

work is about giving a size and a shape and a weight to my feelings in the p

ical world. To ground my ideas and notions in a visible reality, where dayl

lights the dark corners. Working with my hands is the doorway to understanding

ter what I want to say, and I allow the materials to become my detective of mean

And in the mean time I keep breathing. Trying not to

the sense of myself as I search and wander and quest

The quest is vast, and I am only one. So step by step I make my

Artists State


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In my own skin

Photographs, 30cm x 40cm

The primary focus here was to set myself free. To not be limited by my bo

by what I look like, by who I am. But to elude all of those limits and be

someone else. Someone I respect and admire, and would like to be, for a b

moment. This process is about fun, about enjoying becoming someone else,

ing in their shoes, their clothes, their expressions for a few moments, a

so not being me. But at the same time embracing the fact that I never for

a moment leave my body. I interpret their image, with my body, my face, m

skin. Im not trying to hide the fact that I am me. But I am trying to elthe limits of my body by being recognisable in someone elses image. Its

humourous and simple, but also has depths of understanding about how it i

to be just one person, in a body we can never leave, with physical limits

will never escape.

How it is to be someone and want to be someone else, to know ourselves, a

be comfortable in our own skin, and also free to know other people, to re

out and embrace other peoples limits and physicalities and personalities

be honest with ourselves about what we want, how we feel, who we are.

These are people I would, in some ways, like to be.

This is about how to be free.


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Self-Portrait, Che Guevara Self-Portrait, Sarah L


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Self-Portrait, Albert Einstein Self-Portrait, Marina Abramo


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Self-Portrait, Antony Gormley Self-Portrait, Diane


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Self-Portrait, Patti Smith


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I meet you in a corner of my world and travel with you alothe edge of the universe. Together we build, together we lear

together we creat


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Weldi


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Urban WarriorSteel, wo

Various siz

The sun casts light into shadowed corners as a new dawn breaks. Peop

arm themselves for another day in the city, and leave their shelter

After years of battling they are worn and bear the scars of long-go

conicts. Time has hardened their shells and they begin to resemble t

city, as they forget the nature from which they cam

As they integrate into the urban space within which they live, so a

they more protective of it defending it from outsiders, and more rea

ily engaging in each new battle. Fighting to be valued, ghting for wor

for time, ghting for space, ghting to breath

These warriors no longer battle through their urban existence they n

embody the strength of the city, and so stand rooted in its defenc


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More than the sum of my par

Steel, wood, apple see

87cm x 48cm (diamete

You see me but you do not know me, you are with me but you are not of me. I am alone,

are separate. Your world will always turn separately to mine, on

dierent axis: we can be side by side in our orbits but we will always

independent. We cant escape our selves, for better or wors

More than the sum of my parts represents all of this: the visible but unreachable corthe inescapable structure we all see the world through. I wanted to create this sense, th

feeling that I have when I think about my own identity. When I try to dene myself, I fe

fractured, like a china bowl that has been broken and then repaired. I lose the sense of

it falls between the cracks of the elements that have made m

So to remain me, whole and understandable, this piece is an abstraction of how my identi

feels, and how I see identity in all of us. It is specically about me, and generally abo

all of us. The core is what I can happily reduce myself to self awareness, femininit

fragility, and potential. Moving, turning, organic, but rooted on an axis I cant leav

And neither should I be free from it, because the limits are also what makes me who I a

makes us who we ar


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Install


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Project Alella: Catching TCharcoal, Various s

Alella, near Barcelona, Catal

Alella is a place of vast contrasts - where nature meets urbanisation,

agricultural history meets industry. The village is a fusion of t

histories and present realities, which is always cast in shadows - of wha

there now, what has been, and what will be in years to c

This piece provides the rare opportunity to capture a moment in ti

providing a time and a space for reection on our everchan

world. By temporarily ceasing movement, and marking the passage of

through the installation of real shadows, Alella is invited to re

on the pace of its movement, its growth, and its expansion in contras

the stillness of the frozen moment provided by the shad


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FragmenGlass fragments, various si

Constructing through deconstruction, creating by breaking apart. This

vestigation is a journey to nd meaning in broken pieces, and value

fragmen

Through spending time breaking and then working with the material, in t

imperfect and fractured form, I have found the space to use the glass

a raw material and explore what it can mean, in various forms, to myse

and to othe


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Flowing, dancing, gliding, following - the movements tha

translate your beauty on to the page in front of me


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Life Mode


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Bleach on ink


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Ink on paper


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Pencil and ink


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Oil on w

82cm x 2


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Wood & Mixed Me


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Break-Wooden door,

42cm x

Produced for the Comite de 1 Deciembre SIDA/VIH Exhibition

Contracting the HIV virus isnt necessarily the end of the road,

the start of a dierent road; a road that no one would choose,

nevertheless, a road that is as much about being alive as any ot

This work opens peoples minds to lifes possibilities beyond the

virus, moving away from preconceptions that HIV is nothing bstigmatised death sente

The keys represent the unlocking of such possibilities; of fallin

love, growing old, seeing children grow up, and contributing to soc

just like anybody e

In gaining greater understanding, knowledge and awareness of the iss

we empower ourselves to help people with the HIV virus unlock t

possibilities, and build a future beyond HIV and A


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Exhibitions 2010-2011

Urban Identity, Untitled BCN 13-27 November 2010

Group Exhibition Barcelona

Pensa Positiu: SIDA/VIH 23 November-2 December 2010


26WTRTW, Metafora 10 December 2010


Urban Warriors, Liadissimo 30 January-31 May 2011

Solo Exhibition Barcelona

Stairway to..., Untitled BCN 1-13 April 2011


Project Alella, Can Manye 6-22 May 2011

Group Exhibition Alella, Catalunya

Para aqui o para llevar?, Metafora 27 May 2011



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Biography

1983 Born Bedforshire, UK

1992-2001 Educated Haberdahsers Askes School, Middlesex, UK

2002-2007 Social Anthropology MA Hons, University of Edinburgh

2006-2010 Community Development Worker

2008 PADI Divemaster, Belize

2010 Portfolio Prepapration, Edinburgh College of Art

2010-2011 International Workshop, Metafora, Barcelona


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