Laurence Jansen

Stairs and Bridges, 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

Bridges and Stairs takes inspiration from artist Laurence Jansen’s dreams, containing complex webs of bridges and stairs, interwoven between fleeting images. These are incorporated into layered landscapes and surreal interiors. Climbing and running, ascending and descending, these abstract environments induce a sensation of movement that is felt in the body physically, even when dreaming. This sense of disorientation in Bridges and Stairs strikes at the very core of abstract painting, which Jansen likens to a maze: a scenario of obstacles replete with giving and taking, moving forwards and backwards. Advancement is made through risk taking and chance.

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