Vincent Lavell: These Fragments

Vincent Lavell: These Fragments Exhibition: Vincent Lavell: These Fragments
Northern Lights, L8 5AF
Date(s): 07/07/2025 - 13/09/2025
10:00 am - 4:00 pm


These Fragments
Vincent Lavell

I am currently working on a series called ‘Fields’. In these paintings (www.vincentlavell.co.uk) I am drawing together scenes or characters from a number of older paintings to create new narratives and interpretations. For me art history is a depository of images, norms and ideas that can be revisited in the context of current issues and debates.

Opening times Monday to Sat 10.00-4.00pm.

About the artist

I have always enjoyed using a range of techniques to explore a range of subjects. However, the material process of painting itself and the ways in which images function within the wider culture have always been central to my practice.

Painting has a unique place in our visual culture. This uniqueness is always being threatened by technology (the camera etc) changing critical reception (The End of Painting 1981 – Douglas Crimp) and the diversity of artistic practice available to contemporary artists (installation, digital media, the expanded field of sculpture).

It is a mistake to see painting as just another medium in a range of options. The processes, subjects, and modes of visualisation that represent the history of painting have dominated European visual culture. This history affects the way we see the world today. So despite everything, I choose to paint.

About Northern Lights:

Northern Lights is an artist-led space operating out of 45,000sq/ft in the CAINS Brewery Village. Baltic Creative announced a 10-year deal in mid-2016 that would transform this disused canning warehouse, into a range of innovative spaces for artists, designer-makers and creative industries. Northern Lights containing affordable artist studios, gallery spaces, workshop units, music rehearsal space and log-burning mezzanine studios.


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