Laurence Jansen

Specific Rigidity, 2023

Oil on paper

60 x 42 x 1cmShips from United Kingdom

£1,400

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About the Artist

On completion of a bachelors BA at Camberwell UAL in 2018, Jansen was selected for the Clyde and Co Art Award that included a year long group show and mentoring programme. To further pursue collaboration and exhibition opportunities he took part in the artist-led Turps Off-Site Painters Programme, 2020/21. Recent residencies include PADA Studios, Barreiro, Portugal, February 2022 which led to the invitation to join the two month Galerie Dida Residency, Ivory Coast. The RCA kindly awarded The Basil H. Alkazzi Scholarship to accompany his MA studio practice and post graduation he took part in the The Chancellor's Circle Dinner, Alumni and Student Exhibition. Jansen’s painting practice explores the gestural and symbolic potential of mark making. Rendering fluidity and movement through abstraction, he incorporates collected images to create compositions that play with bio-mechanical principles, in relation to architectural landscape and the figurative form. Traversing drawing, photographic field studies, media sources and collage techniques, Jansen’s process develops emerging narratives composed of deconstructed elements, that reflect on the affiliation between post-humanism and the future urban ecology of our cities. These aggregates of signs search for meaning within a struggle, yet also a strong desire for symbiosis between our socio-political, technological and environmental challenges.

About the Artwork

Works on paper are often used to distill and clarify ideas into their most relevant components. Laurence Jansen’s title Specific Rigidity refers to an architectural term that defines the amount of force that a lightweight material can sustain before physical deformation. In the composition, an aluminum extrusion is layered amongst a cloud of hot gas or lava. Boundless and transparent layers of colour juxtapose the harsh, rigid lines and structure of the extrusion profile, which now appears to have been taken to the forge.

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