Lauren Bowman

I create highly decorative contemporary miniature paintings, populated by playful protagonists of an anthropomorphic persuasion. Characters throughout my painting parody the many small joys and every day mundanities of human experience, creating nonsensical narratives to which I lend a sense of significance via obsessive and elaborate ornamentation. I see my practice as much a kin to written fiction as visual art; separate works follow a continuous divergent narrative with events and characters in individual paintings referencing the wider fiction via links to fabricated history and inferred ancestry.

BA (Hons) Painting - Edinburgh College of Art 2010 - 2013

Loughborough University foundation diploma in art and design graduating 2010

Awards and Prizes:
The Prudential Award for Young Artists
The National Open Art Competition 2015

Royal Scottish Academy Landscape Award
RSA: New Contemporararies 2014

Art in Healthcare Purchase Prize
RSA: New Contemporararies 2014

Current:
175 Years of Art
The Scottish Gallery
Dundas Street
Edinburgh
3rd May - 3rd June 2017
Private View: 2nd May 6.30 - 8.30​​
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EWAAC (East West Art Award Competition)
Kyoto international artists Residency
March - April 2017
Group exhibition in Kyoto.

Selected Past Exhibitions:

2016:
Resolutions
Works by Lauren Bowman
The Scottish Gallery
Dundas Street, Edinburgh
30th November - 23rd December

All The Wonderful Things
Art In Healthcare Summer Exhibition
Gayfield Creative Spaces
23rd - 29th June 2016
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Jan Noble and Lauren Bowman
The Barn Gallery, Wymeswold,
Leicestershire
30th May - 19th June
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W. Gordon Smith Award Exhibition
Dovecot Studios
Infirmary Street, Edinburgh
January 2016

2015:
Auld Alliance Contemporary Exhibitions
Institut Francais d'Ecosse & EDS Gallery
October 2015

2014:
The National Open Art Competition
Somerset House - London, Pallant House
Gallery, Minerva Theatre Festival - Chichester
18th September - 4th January 2015

The Healing Power of Art
AtticSalt Gallery, Edinburgh
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