Prize Winner

RSA New Contemporaries

Painting & Printmaking School of Fine Art

Lola Pilkington

(she)

My practise is a personal archiving, an excavation of my past and an enquiry into what is important with respect to the communal nature of being, responding to embodiments of togetherness, collective understandings, and expressions of intimacy. My work is centred around a distribution and redistribution of care and nurture.

Every element of my practice is an expression of care. I work in many fragments, interconnected by the narrative I have found them to share. They echo one another to create a murmuration: a whole defined by its parts. Through making I process experience, physically responding to my internal dialogue. I retrace and remake the same image, drawing it repetitively, nurturing it as an immediate visual language. My painting process involves manipulation to the surface, layering and drawing back; mimicking a conversation with time.  I paint in layers of palimpsest, a gradual build-up representing moments in time and illustrations of attention. The craft of ceramics is a meticulous and lengthy process of affection, requiring fostering and complete attentiveness. There is a mutuality of care, the more I look after it, the more likely it is to agree with me.

Like a magpie, I am an eclectic gatherer. I collect and treasure traces of love that live on as symbols of intimacy somewhat forgotten in the fast pace of life, reimagining them as the surrounding songs that transcend time.

 

Contact
Lolapilk@outlook.com
L.Pilkington1@student.gsa.ac.uk
@Lolapilk
Works
That Sunny Afternoon
Sitting Idle
Resting
Whose turn is it?
The Hidden Note Vase
The Lace Curtain
It Feels Like Home To Me
The Show of Youth
Moonlit Memory
Surrounding Songs
The Candle Holding Vase
Reductive Charcoal Drawings
Degree Show

That Sunny Afternoon

45 X 55cm

Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas

That Sunny Afternoon

Sitting Idle

50 x 80cm

Oil on Canvas

Resting

150 X 150cm

Spray Paint and Oil on Canvas

Whose turn is it?

60 X 45cm

Oil on Canvas

The Hidden Note Vase

The Lace Curtain

150 X 200cm

Oil on Canvas

It Feels Like Home To Me

Film

It Feels Like Home To Me

The Show of Youth

90 X 90cm

Mono-printing Ink and Thread on Canvas

 

Moonlit Memory

170 X 210cm

Oil on Canvas

Surrounding Songs

B5 Book

Collated found notes paired with images of my own paintings and photography

The Candle Holding Vase

Ceramic Vase and Red Kite Candles

Reductive Charcoal Drawings