The artwork "Carpet Sweeper" by Lauren Coullard features a pale, pastel palette with swirling shapes forming an ethereal, dreamlike composition. Fleeting images, possibly of a creature and abstract forms, emerge through the soft brushwork, creating mystical and ambiguous symbols. Coullard's style is a hybrid of symbolism and abstraction, channeling mythological and futuristic imagery through a collage-inspired technique. The piece reflects her polymorphous exploration of culture, blending historical and modern elements to elucidate the intertwined narratives of power, horror, and pleasure. ...
Lauren Coullard's painting practice channels a multitude of characters into polychrome environments. Her polymorphous style derives from the multiple sources that collide in her collages and paintings. The diversity of her media - wood, canvas, foam, hand-stretched stretchers, cereal packets - contributes to this dynamic. She borrows techniques from Symbolism, Romanticism, Abstract Expressionism, and Post-Modernism. Collage work is her first phase of production, in which she combines mythological and neo-medieval references with futuristic comics and manga, creating hybrid (super)heroines. In her paintings, cultures are no longer distinguishable in the effervescence of the motifs. The composite figures tell of the complicity between power, horror, and pleasure. ...
