archived gallery shows
Between Me and You
A Solo Exhibition by Laura Jacobs
23 August – 24 September
‘The author does not so much remember the past as recast it, grasping and reshaping herself in the process.’
Laura’s work focuses on the interplay between photography, film, drawing and painting. Between Me and You explores the use of multiple spaces, light, the photograph and text to evoke a sense of memory and time, loss and longing, presence and absence. There is an emphasis on the trace, the mark made by the passage of one person through another person’s life, the gap between the self and the other, the space that exists between ‘me’ and ‘you’. We are made aware of the artists’ presence through her role as an onlooker in the scene, as a protagonist and at times as the viewer watching and recording the scene she is witnessing. Rather like being in a dream, the artist/dreamer is both acting in and watching the action on the screen – we have a sense of being in two places at the same time, a space within a space.
Laura is a Jewish Artist and originally trained as a stage and costume designer for the theatre, going on to work with a host of directors and theatre companies in the UK and abroad. Earlier this year, Laura took part in BBC2’s ‘Show Me The Monet’, a Dragon’s Den style TV programme for aspiring artists, in which her work was chosen from thousands of hopefuls.
A Central Saint Martins graduate Laura has exhibited both in solo and group shows and has since been awarded a scholarship to study advanced painting and drawing at the prestigious New York Studio School. She currently splits her time between London and New York.
As well as her own practice Laura also works on commissions.