Erin Lawlor

CONCEPT OF ARTWORK
My tiger is painted a deep forest green – the colour of the nature with which he merges – and mottled with the dark. His feet and underbelly are copper-tinged, reminiscent of the savannah. He is, above all, coated in an abstract mantle of organic gestures, applied in gold paint with a wide brush. While characteristic of my own painting style, I wanted, with the brush-marks, to recreate a baroque take on the shifting beauty of the tiger’s natural camouflage.

ABOUT ERIN LAWLOR (UK)
Erin Lawlor received her BA in Art History in 1992 from the Sorbonne, Paris; she currently lives and works in London. She has exhibited extensively internationally; recent solo exhibitions include shows at Luca Tommasi in Milan (2021), Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, Auckland (2020); and Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC (2019). Recent group exhibitions include “British Painting 2019” at Space K Museum, Seoul; “A brief History of Abstraction,” Rønnebæksholm, Denmark, “L’Echappée Belle: Erin Lawlor/Bram van Velde” (…). In 2017, her work was the subject of a survey exhibition, “onomatopoeia”, at the Rothko Centre in Latvia, and her work was also showcased in the exhibition “Paint.Now” at the Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016.