Legacy Landscape
2019
Drawing - felt tip and ink on acid-free paper
110 x 276.5 x 5cm (framed) | 100 x 266 x 0.2cm (unframed)
Photographs - Nick Ash

The genesis of Lawley's present work phase, Legacy Landscape (2019) manifests the liberatory potential of this process of shedding. The large-scale drawing depicts sharp-edged female archetypes isolated in various states of agony and abandon and yet interconnected through shared matrilineal trauma reaching back to the beginnings of time. Their entanglement is reminiscent of a primal dance, in whose ecstatic embrace the confines of corporeal individuality and injury dissolve and a communal subjectivity emerges. - Seepage From My Primal Fountain, 2024, exhibition text, Lisa Deml with Laura Allsop