Lorrain Mailer Kent, United Kingdom

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My practice aims to find a connectivity to our deep past, in an attempt to unravel our human reluctance to take responsibility for our underlining destructive nature. Through the use of every day single use, disposable plastic products to create installations, performances, sculptures, photographic and mark making works.

I aim in my practice to find a connectivity to our deep past, in an attempt to unravel our human reluctance to take responsibility for our underlining destructive nature.

Using repetitive processes, my practice is one of enfoldment made from every day, single use plastic, achieved through a labour-intensive craft process of duplication to create installations, sculptures ad mark making works.

This process of enfoldment is a cathartic and haptic methodology, allowing me to spatially process my sense of grief through the function of my body. To offer a connectivity, that contradicts the empiricism concept of time; where human behaviour must be continually retaught to each generation to diminish the default setting of domination, discrimination and double standards. My wrapping processes are suggestive of acts of preservation yet the resulting sculptures, reflective of my mental analysis, lack substance, durability or essential transformation.

There is a problematic challenge rooted in my sculptures due to the ubiquitous plastic material employed, raising questions that affects us all, as a part of our modern industrial society. Plastics endure with a tenacious longevity to seep and disintegrate into our environment. The extent of this contamination is unknown and comparable to today’s subconscious prejudices and double standards learnt from the past and unaltered spill into the future.

I exhibit within the UK and Brazil. Hold an MA in fine art and facilitated art open calls through Curator Space and Instagram.