Lorraine Thomas - Fossi
I am a painter based in London. I graduated with an MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School in September 2015. I studied and practiced Architecture before turning to painting. I am interested in the relation between the abstract work and the realised object.
In my artworks the diagram is function to painting.
My work finds echoes in the theory of the Rhizome by Deleuze and Guattari that allows for multiple, non- hierarchical entry and exit points in data interpretation and representation. My work travels from reality to abstraction, but it also constructs a bridge between the two states. Structures and details in the world become abstracted into diagrams, which can then be instantiated in other materials and in other contexts.bridge between the abstract world and the reality, using the crucial tool of the diagram.
My essay 'In Between all Perspective ..' show a theory at work. 'The Upturned View' is a study of the Hopscotch game.
Since I graduated with an MA in Fine Art my work has been exhibited in Turps Gallery, Charlie Smith, The Griffin, The ASC Gallery, The Collyer Bristow and Pipeline.
I am interested in theories that support the merging of art and life, in the 'found object' as well as in the process of making art happen.
Phone: 0767731332
Address: Marseille 13001
In my artworks the diagram is function to painting.
My work finds echoes in the theory of the Rhizome by Deleuze and Guattari that allows for multiple, non- hierarchical entry and exit points in data interpretation and representation. My work travels from reality to abstraction, but it also constructs a bridge between the two states. Structures and details in the world become abstracted into diagrams, which can then be instantiated in other materials and in other contexts.bridge between the abstract world and the reality, using the crucial tool of the diagram.
My essay 'In Between all Perspective ..' show a theory at work. 'The Upturned View' is a study of the Hopscotch game.
Since I graduated with an MA in Fine Art my work has been exhibited in Turps Gallery, Charlie Smith, The Griffin, The ASC Gallery, The Collyer Bristow and Pipeline.
I am interested in theories that support the merging of art and life, in the 'found object' as well as in the process of making art happen.
Phone: 0767731332
Address: Marseille 13001
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Presenting and evaluating my current practice as well as the one of other artists, I will present a theory ‘at work’, rather than illustrate it.
The studio is a ground on which I can play safely, assemble and de-assemble, work from above like a cartographer or in the easel position like a painter, jump and switch sides, in between all perspectives. In writing this essay I rediscovered what I have always used, seen and been drawing: The Diagram.
My work is to bring some of ‘the world’ to my surfaces using the crucial tool of the diagram. ‘A diagram’ says Jakub Zdebik, ‘is commonly understood as a drawing conveying information about something incorporeal’
Zdebik provides a few different ideas about the diagram in the writings of Deleuze and Guattari. Here I will explore my work using some of those categories, divided into three sections.
These are:
1. The Diagram as Tracing and Map, which explores the difference between tracing and mapping and between the Tree and the Rhizome in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It looks at the work of Gianfranco Baruchello and Antoni Tàpies, and explores the idea of being ‘in between all perspectives’.
2. The Diagram as Abstract Machine, which contains work in which I am ‘playing for real’; work which constructs a new reality rather than representing this one. It also considers painting in the expanded field and the idea of the diagram as transferrable through media.
3. The Diagram and the Line of Flight looks at the Deleuzian concepts of Desire, Assemblage and the Line of Flight. It concludes by following many lines into the future.
I will argue that the diagram is not just a tool to produce work but it is a ‘function’ to painting. This way I seek to make works that connect to other forms organised upon similar diagrammatic functions.
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It has been selected as material research for the exhibition ‘The Hidden lines of Space’ in Berlin in July 2017.
Presenting and evaluating my current practice as well as the one of other artists, I will present a theory ‘at work’, rather than illustrate it.
The studio is a ground on which I can play safely, assemble and de-assemble, work from above like a cartographer or in the easel position like a painter, jump and switch sides, in between all perspectives. In writing this essay I rediscovered what I have always used, seen and been drawing: The Diagram.
My work is to bring some of ‘the world’ to my surfaces using the crucial tool of the diagram. ‘A diagram’ says Jakub Zdebik, ‘is commonly understood as a drawing conveying information about something incorporeal’
Zdebik provides a few different ideas about the diagram in the writings of Deleuze and Guattari. Here I will explore my work using some of those categories, divided into three sections.
These are:
1. The Diagram as Tracing and Map, which explores the difference between tracing and mapping and between the Tree and the Rhizome in the work of Deleuze and Guattari. It looks at the work of Gianfranco Baruchello and Antoni Tàpies, and explores the idea of being ‘in between all perspectives’.
2. The Diagram as Abstract Machine, which contains work in which I am ‘playing for real’; work which constructs a new reality rather than representing this one. It also considers painting in the expanded field and the idea of the diagram as transferrable through media.
3. The Diagram and the Line of Flight looks at the Deleuzian concepts of Desire, Assemblage and the Line of Flight. It concludes by following many lines into the future.
I will argue that the diagram is not just a tool to produce work but it is a ‘function’ to painting. This way I seek to make works that connect to other forms organised upon similar diagrammatic functions.
It has been selected as material research for the exhibition ‘The Hidden lines of Space’ in Berlin in July 2017.