Contemporary Art Practice Speakers Programme - Lauren Gault

As part of Duncan of Jordanstone’s Contemporary Art Practice Speakers Programme, join artist and DJCAD graduate Lauren Gault for a talk about her practice, coinciding with her major solo exhibition bone stone voice alone at Dundee Contemporary Arts (DCA).

The exhibition is a newly commissioned body of work which uses the mythological figure of Echo from Ovid’s Metamorphoses to investigate the land of Tayside and beyond.

Collaborating with people across a range of disciplines and experience, from specialist stonemasons and manufacturers of scientific glassware to quilting experts and suppliers of industrial machinery, alongside completing a production residency in DCA Print Studio, Gault has created a series of works that draw on multilayered histories of Scotland's land and the unheard, undervalued or silenced voices of those who work on it.

Lauren will be introduced by Dan Brown, Head of Exhibitions at DCA. 

Artist biography  

Lauren Gault (b. Belfast, NI, 1986) is a Glasgow, Scotland and Magheramorne, Ireland based artist working in sculpture, installation, text and sound. Recent solo exhibitions include Samhla, ATLAS Arts, Isle of Skye (2024); Galalith, Temple Bar Gallery + Studios, Dublin (2022); Cithra, The Tetley, Leeds (2021); C I T H R A, Gasworks, London (2020); forgets in knots, Kantine, Brussels (2019), drye eyes, Grand Union, Birmingham, (2019), O-n, The Workbench, Milan (2019), present cOmpany, CCA Derry - Londonderry, Northern Ireland (2018), lipstick-NASA, Jupiter Artland, Bonnington (2015), fugue states, CCA Glasgow, (2015), sweet ensilage, Tramway, Glasgow (2013). Recent group exhibitions include SOIL, an exhibition exploring the power and potential of soil at Somerset House, England and a two-person exhibition at Dilalica during Barcelona Gallery Weekend.  

 Gault has delivered lectures on her practice and research, including Samhla // Tùs-àite: Landscape and Affect, Isle of Skye with Dr Giacomo Savani at the Institute for Historical Research, London (2024), Intuitions for Soil (with Poppy Okotcha and Jennifer Kabat) as part of SOIL at Somerset House, England (2024), Glasgow School of Art - Fine Art Friday Event series (2024), ‘Samhla - research practice’, artist talk as part of UKRI-AHRC Field\work Research Network (part of ‘Landscape Decisions, towards a new framework for using land assets’ (2023). She has been a studio holder at Glasgow Sculpture Studios since 2012.  

www.laurengault.co.uk  

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