her pleasure (arcadia), 2024, Oil on canvas, 71 x 47 3/8 inches, 180.3 x 120.3 cm, MMG#37290
lay it down, 2020, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm, MMG#33642
circe, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm, MMG#33650
la vie en rose, 2021, Oil on canvas, 74 7/8 x 153 1/2 inches, 190 x 390 cm, MMG#33638
kooks, 2020, Oil on canvas, 35 3/8 x 27 1/2 inches, 90 x 70 cm, MMG#32569
gimblette, 2021, Oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 47 1/4 inches, 180 x 120 cm, MMG#33641
as below, 2018, Oil on canvas, 71 x 102 inches,180.3 x 129.5 cm, MMG#30265
trickster, 2019, Oil on canvas, 59 x 39 3/8 inches, 150 x 100 cm, MMG#30965
silver screen/life on mars, 2019, Oil on canvas, 70 7/8 x 51 1/8 inches, 180 x 130 cm, MMG#30963
world-tree/night, 2019, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 59 inches, 200 x 150 cm, MMG#30960
shuffle, 2018, Oil on canvas, 59.5 x 39.5 inches, 151.1 x 100.3 cm, MMG#30261
fox's bride, 2018, Oil on canvas, 59.5 x 39.5 inches, 151.1 x 100.3 cm, MMG#30260
fox's wedding, 2018, Oil on canvas, 79 x 63 inches, 200.7 x 160 cm, MMG#30269
morning rises, 2018, Oil on canvas, 71 x 51 inches,180.3 x 129.5 cm, MMG#30263
pull + ebb, 2018, Oil on canvas, 71 x 102 inches, 180.3 x 129.5 cm, MMG#30266
night garden/flight, 2018, Oil on canvas, 74 3/4 x 153 1/2 inches, 190 x 390 cm, MMG#30958
three white leopards, 2018, Oil on canvas, 78 3/4 x 59 inches, 200 x 150 cm, MMG#30962
zip, 2018, Oil on canvas, 12 x 10 inches, 30.5 x 25.4 cm, MMG#30267
Erin Lawlor in her studio in London, United Kingdom, 2024.
Erin Lawlor (b. 1969 in Epping, United Kingdom) received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of Paris IV – La Sorbonne, Paris, France.
Lawlor is the subject of a major traveling solo exhibition, “divining,” which will visit three exhibition spaces in Ireland over the course of 2025 and 2026, including Highlanes Gallery, Drogheda, Ireland; the Galway International Arts Festival, Galway, Ireland; and The Source Arts Centre, Thurles, Ireland.
Other solo exhibitions include Espacio Valverde, Madrid, Spain; Fox Jensen, Sydney; Fox Jensen McCrory Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand; George Lawson Gallery, Mill Valley, CA; Luca Tommasi Contemporary Art, Milan, Italy; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; Vigo Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and Wellington Arch Museum, London, United Kingdom, amongst others.
Recent group exhibitions have been held at Ahmanson Gallery, Irvine, CA; Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, IL; Fox Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia;
Gerhard Hofland Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX; Irish Arts Center, New York, NY; Jarilager Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Kastrupgård Collection, Copenhagen, Denmark; l’Appartement de Jacques Prévert, Paris, France; Luca Tommasi, Milano, Italy; Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY; The Royal Academy of Art, London, United Kingdom; Thames-Side Studios Gallery, London, United Kingdom; and UNION Gallery, London, United Kingdom, amongst others.
Her work may be found in the collections of the Rothko Museum, Daugavpils, Latvia; New Hall Art Collection, Cambridge, United Kingdom; and Space K, Seoul, South Korea.
Lawlor lives and works in London, United Kingdom.
Erin Lawlor's painting Majestic Mickey (2016) is on view in the exhibition The Cabin LA Presents: A Curated Flashback at the Green Family Art Foundation.
Erin Lawlor is featured as one of Artsy's 5 Artists on Our Radar in February 2023.
Invincible Summer, a solo exhibition of paintings by Erin Lawlor, is on view through 19 March at the Wellington Arch Museum in collaboration with Vigo Gallery.
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Erin Lawlor was born in Epping, UK in 1969. Lawlor lived in France from 1987 to 2013, and holds a BA in History of Art and Archaeology from the University of Paris IV – la Sorbonne (1992). She currently lives and works in London. Lawlor has exhibited extensively internationally over the last twenty years; recent exhibitions of note include a presentation at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, ‘Maleri:nu (Paint:now)’, in Copenhagen in 2016; a substantial solo exhibition at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Latvia in 2017; as well as recent solo exhibitions at Rod Barton, Brussels (2016), Espacio Valverde, Madrid (2018), Fifi Projects, Mexico (2018), Fox/Jensen Gallery, Australia (2018), and Miles McEnery Gallery, New York (2019). She was one of three painters showcased in the Space K exhibition ‘British Painting 2019’ in Seoul, South Korea, this summer. Lawlor is currently preparing for a solo exhibition at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery in Auckland, NZ, for next spring. She and her work will also be featured in the book ‘Free Spirits’ by Rosie Osborne, to be published next week.
An inaugural solo exhibition of the work of London-based artist Erin Lawlor presents a selection of vivid paintings spanning 2017 – 2019 and evinces advancements in the artist’s trademark brushwork, color usage, and compositional formats. The works in this series build upon painting explorations consisting of a loopy, curvilinear patchwork that produces heightened subtleties between foreground, middle-ground, and background. Constructed from a multitude of axial planes that fully exploit levels of push-pull between the nip, tuck, and fold of her envisioned spaces, Lawlor’s dynamic imagery elicits an impeded desire to peel back layers of curvature that seem to go on interminably.
Erin Lawlor’s paintings, on view at Miles McEnery Gallery through August 16, have a sense of the familiar. Wide brush strokes play off one another, conjuring winding ribbons, rendered systematically like blood flowing to and from the heart — an ebb and flow of the most critical kind. At first glance, the deep rich color drew me in, then the scale, then the whimsy that radiates from the wide, curvy mark-making. But then, as I moved through the gallery with more focus, Lawlor’s paintings evoked a sense of observing the art of an earlier time: the natural integration of motion, body, and presence.
While in town for the opening of her solo exhibition at Miles McEnery Gallery, Erin Lawlor stopped in for a chat with Brian Alfred on his podcast "Sound & Vision." During this episode, Erin talks about beating Brexit, process and painting, writing vs. painting, seeing David Bowie live, and much more.
