Laurie Steen
Through quiet gestures and luminous voids, Steen traced paradox into poetry—her work a meditation on absence, memory, and the fragile humanness woven into the shifting contours of light and landscape.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS:
Solo exhibitions, 2019 ‘the space of nothing and everything’, Cube Gallery, London, 2012 TREES, Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World, (CCANW) Haldon, Exeter, Group Exhibitions, 2020/21 International Womens Day Group Exhibition 2021, Wallace Gallery, Calgary Canada, Wells Art Contemporary 2020, UK, Virtual Exhibition, RWA 168, Autumn/ Spring Exhibition, RWA, Bristol, UK, 2019 RA 251 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, ‘Emerging Landscapes: A New Normality’, RWA, Bristol, UK RWA Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, London Art Fair, Cube Gallery, London, 2018 RWA Autumn Exhibition, Royal West of England Academy, Bristol, RA 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London,‘All Women’s Group Exhibition’, Wallace Gallery, Calgary, Canada
EDUCATION:
Laurie studied Fine Art at the University of Calgary, then going on to complete her B.I.D. at the University of Manitoba’s Faculty of Architecture, for which she was awarded the thesis prize
Laurie Steen (1970-2023) was a Canadian artist whose work focused primarily on drawing. Heavily influenced by the natural environment in and around her family home in Devon, her detailed drawings functioned as portraiture of the landscape and meditations on the ever-changing surroundings of the English countryside.
“'My work has always felt full of paradoxes sitting happily beside each other. From lightness and darkness, emptiness and fullness, to finding the extraordinary within the ordinary. I am continually intrigued by the pull of negative space and more specifically how light shapes us and gets through the shadows.”
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