Alanna Lawley, 2019, Brain without Organs - Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin. The artist wears Luminette – a medical grade device used for the treatment of Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)

As an interdisciplinary artist I synthesise connections between the emotional, mental, physical and virtual worlds of the embodied female experience, using intuitive drawing as the foundation to my practice. My dynamic 2D scapes use powerful methods of storytelling that invite the viewer to unearth charged histories of matrilineal trauma, identity, ritual and sexuality. 

Whilst my drawings communicate a wholly fabricated, phantasmagoric world of guttural and visceral catharsis with recurring motifs of the female body turned inside out, I seek to create immersive environments using any media that answers the questions that I pose, including sculpture, installation, text and works in the digital sphere that critique in playful speculation, the wellness economy and our growing desire to self-source externally.

My work considers the female body in context of its lineage and natural wisdoms, in a bid to reclaim autonomy and by confronting the many layers of my work, a functional space of communal subjectivity is created.

Alanna Lawley (b.1983) is a UK artist based in Berlin, she graduated with a First Class Honours, Fine Art from Chelsea College of Art & Design, London (2005) and has exhibited internationally – including the UK, Germany, USA, Poland, The Netherlands & Japan.

Selected exhibitions, talks & residencies Seepage From My Primal Fountain, Marie 10, Berlin | Berlin Baustelle, De Cacaofabriek, Helmond, The Netherlands (2020) | Brain without Organ (2019), Transmediale, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin | CHECK OUT 4/4 (2018),Vorspiel / Transmediale & CTM, Import Projects, Berlin | Transparency (2017), SIC! BWA Wrocław, Poland | Artist in Resident (2015), Kranich Museum, Hessenburg, Germany | Artist in Resident (2017), Hotel Maria Kapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands.