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Bio
Lauren Godfrey (b. UK) is an artist based in London.
Her work invites interaction and collaboration, often swerving close to furniture or the quasi-useful.
In recent work, fountains and sundials – elemental clichés – meet post-modern silhouettes and pattern overload. There’s a suggested functionality and a whisper of a potential state shift, collaborating with surrounding elements and viewers alike.
The work offers space to the viewer whether it be to take a meditative moment in the company of trickling water or an invitation to interact and respond.
b. 1989, Harrogate
Education
2008–2012
BA Fine Art, Department of Sculpture,
Slade School of Fine Art
2010
Erasmus Exchange, Kuvataideaketemia,
Finnish Academy of Fine Arts
2007–2008
Foundation Diploma Art and Design,
Chelsea College of Art
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2023
Soho House, Redchurch Street
On Now - The Lion and The Fox, London - Closes November 2023
2022
What We Wore,
Newham Hospital, London
2020
Pattern Portraits (Kings Cross),
Coal Drops Yard, London
2019
GROUP HAT, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Kingsgate Workshops Billboard, London
2016
Alimentari, Geddes Gallery, London
2015
Entrée, Stage Left, Kingsgate Workshops,London
2014
Stovies, Scallops and Scabby Man’s Heads, An Tobar Gallery, Isle of Mull
2013
COCKTAIL #1, C02 Gallery, Rome
2010
Lauren Godfrey, Dan Biddulph Presents, London
Selected Group Exhibitions and Performances
2022
GERTRUDE PRESENTS, London
2019
16:9 Billboard, Kingsgate Workshops
2018
FAKERS, Thames-Side Studios, London
Hidden Harlequin, Centre for Recent Drawing, London
Every Thing, Assembly Point, London
2017
Doing Easy, Outpost Projects, Joshua Tree, California, curated by Erik Benjamins
HOUSE WORK, 53 Beck Road, London, curated by Art Licks
2016
Identify your limitations, acknowledge the periphery, Vitrine Gallery, London
We do not speak but confine ourselves briefly to the surface, ICA, London
2015
All consuming: Perfect peaches piled, awaiting pressing fingertips, Performance at Nottingham Contemporary
2018
‘Art in restaurants is on the same level as food in muesums’–Niles Crane, Turf Projects, Croydon Longing for Leisure, Open Space Gallery, Baltimore, USA
2014
What the Font?, V&A Museum, London
Take No Lay Down, Group show, Slopes
Projects, Melbourne, Australia
2013
Die Puffbrause Per Favor, Performance with Siôn Parkinson, ICA, London
2012
Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2012, ICA
London and Liverpool Biennale
Commissions
2022
Permanent installation, What We Wore, Newham Hospital, London
2019
Semi-Permanent Mural, De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
Gasworks Tote bag design for 25th Anniversary
2018
Ring edition, common-editions
Display for Karen Mabon, Les Filles, Lisbon
Display for Pramma, Paris Fashion Week
2016
Gasworks Donation Box, London
SVP Jewellery display sculpture for Valeria
Napoleone and Stefania Pramma at House of Voltaire, London
Roche Bobois and Art Review Fundraiser auction Mah Jong sofa artwork
2014
Permanant inlaid linoleum floor commission, An Tobar, Isle of Mull
ICONICA, Italian National Olympic Committee
Centenary commission. Rome, Italy
YOUR AD HERE, Create London Billboard, commission for Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park
Selected Publications/Texts
2019
AMBIT 237 60th Anniversary Edition
2017
AMBIT 230
2016
Form IV, Thing 005 Art Licks Issue 19–featured artist
2013
Art Review ‘Future Greats’ 2013, Selected byRosalind Nashashibi, Art Review March Issue
Residencies
2019
Villa Lena, Tuscany, October/November
2016
Triangle Arts, New York–July to September
2015
Kingsgate Workshops Studio Residency, London
2014
The Beautifullest Place On Earth, Residency at William Morris’ Red House, Bexleyheath, London
Teaching/Workshops
2022
Workshops for Newham Hospital, Vital Arts
RCA Textiles Artist Talk
Art lead at Evelina Hospital School with City of London Sinfonia
2019
Milton Keynes Art Centre–YMCA workshops
De La Warr Pavilion workshops
2018
Slade Visiting Tutor BA Sculpture + Artist’s Talk
Slade Visiting Tutor MA Media
2017
UCA Studio Visit and Artist’s Talk
2016
Turf Projects Workshop
2015
Young Arnolfini Workshop and Artist’s Talk
Imprint
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