Discover the contemporary work of LAWRENCE

Né in central France,Lawrence studied at Paris (University of Paris I - Panthéon-Sorbonne) and the workshops of the city of Paris (Drawing: Ateliers Joël Trolliet and Olivier Di Pizzio, Painting: Atelier Gonzalo Belmonte, Ecole de la Glaciere ). Teacher-trainer (INSPE - Université Picardie Jules Verne) for more than 20 years, he lives and works at the university. next to it from Beauvais (Oise - 60).

Since 2019, he has been exploring the traces, the remains, of what remains of the world. painting and drawing as a legitimate practice confronted with digital technology, and now AI. Question of memory, question of forgetting, question of what (we) have left.

Lawrence draws and paints with the gestures of of subtractions current which forge the technique of his images (charcoal, oil pastel, chalk, ink, graphite, oils) where hybridizes thesurfacesand the shapes of his subjects with neglected and insignificant but emblematic motifs of our everyday life. ifying (banana or avocado skins, cherry pits and stems, deliquescent squash, cores, or even the body of a mythical woman, heads of discriminated people, etc., ...). From then on, his images are extractions: tearings from the the surface, scrapings and scratches or even wear of the layers, various erasures, etc., … But also transparencies where ù the drawing is only the rest of the hidden visible, or even a staging in a double-sided game (lit vs. unlit): when the light shines, it becomes visible. reveals the state of things. Remains of gestures, image of the rest, in the immaculate space of of the white surface, the work is the result of the process where These primary, essential, original ingredients meet.

And there is Time, becausethe image is only a vestige of what remains!