Lot 473 - Lauren Godrey - Zig-Zag-Urat (Pattern Portrait)

Coloured pencil on paper
2025
A6 (10x15cm)
Original Artwork
Signed on Verso
Curated by Hannah Tilson

About
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.

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

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