Look Within Yourself
6-10 November 2023Puikeih Lam
Lucy Longley
Look Within Yourself is a collaborative exhibition by artists Puikeih Lam and Lucy Longley exploring themes related to the conscious and unconscious states of human experiences of the world as well as your inner world, how and where do you exist within society and yourself?
Lam works with written word, paint and print to explore her internal eperience of the physical body. She is interested in translating the inner experience and allowing audiences to identify with the work, which is described as a symptom and simultaneously a therapy.
Longley’s practice encompasses te broader themes surrouning sleep, somnambulism, nightmares, and sleep deprivation. Her use of layered mixed media throughout her paintings and ceramics, explores the complexities of individual experience of the unconscious. Her use of exaggerated and bold colours juxtaposes to the darker themes of her works, experimenting with colour theory to influence viewrs emotions around the paintings. Laced throughout the layers are intricte, but accidental lines, taken from notes she created whist asleep and combined with reproduction of elements found within these anxiety dreams.
Works shown left to right:
Puikeih Lam
Skin me Skin me, 2023
Soft Ground Intaglio etching
using medication packet, foliage, hair and netting and letterpress
(15 x 15 cm) x 2
Lucy Longley
Receipts of a Lost World, 2021
Acrylic paint and mixed media collage
(12.5 x 18cm) x 3
Puikeih Lam
I would like nothing more, 2023
Letterpress on monoprint
(21 x 30cm) x3
Lucy Longley
Dream Vessels, 2022
Clay, plaster bandage, acrylic paint, and other mixed media
(8.5 x 8cm) & (7 x 6.5cm)
Puikeih Lam
Castle, 2023
Letterpress on monoprint
(35.5 x 28cm) x3
Puikeih Lam
Who have I been and Who will I become, 2023
Colour pencil, oil pastel on wood board
(35 x 30cm)
Lucy Longley
Lines, Flames and More Lines, 2023
Acrylic ink, charcoal and oil pastel on canvas
(30 x 30cm)
Puikeih Lam
Selected works from Botanicals collection, 2022
Monoprint
(18.5 x 25cm) x4
Lucy Longley
57. Unsuitable Partner, 2022
Acrylic paint, mixed media collage
(30 x 30cm)
Lucy Longley
Dreamscape continued, 2023
Acrylic paint, oil pastel, chalk pastel and mixed media
(60 x 60cm)