Women United ART PRIZE 2023
Photography & Printmaking Category
2nd place winner

ARTIST BIO

Born in 1987, Lauren Bryden is a Glasgow-based artist. Lauren graduated from Glasgow School of Art in 2010 with a BA (Hons). Lauren has subsequently worked with traditional textile dyeing techniques, metalwork, ceramics and painting and printmaking on cloth and paper.

Lauren has exhibited across the UK and internationally and her most recent series 'Fragments of Growing' is represented by Broth Art and series 'Tete-a-Tete' represented by The Curators. She is due to exhibit three original prints this autumn as part of the curated hang at Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair.

ARTIST STATEMENT

Lauren Bryden’s work is an intimate reflection of life as a (m)other and the process of matrescence.

Bryden’s works explore the beauty and loss of growing and how the figure of the Mother shifts through time and generations. Her work invites the viewer into familiar settings and contends that even when the Mother is not present, her gaze silently defines the scene.

Bryden’s practice incorporates observational drawing with details from family photographs, holding a tenderness towards the subject with a symbolic and bold use of colour. She utilises printmaking techniques which breathe life into the subject through chance textures, mark-making and depth, yet these gestures also accentuate the fractured, ephemeral memories and a sense of ‘searching for lost time’.

Glasgow, Scotland / United Kingdom