Lotte Bender - Pamalotte Studios

Lotte studied in Limerick City, Ireland completing her BA in Sculpture and Combined Media and later her MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment. Her paintings draw from her background in sculpture, as Lotte works to build a bridge from the 3-dimensional to the 2-dimensional. Her preferred medium is oil on canvas and she uses her paintings to explore expressions of human emotion, within a conditioned society. In one side of her work she uses caricatured figures to explore the way we outwardly present ourselves, looking at the idea of how we are puppets of our own illusions. The other side of her work is more sensitive and this is where she explores our inner feelings through simple figures, allowing nothing to distract from the expression they hold.

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- Painting/Illustration/Design

- Socially Engaged Literary Project

- MA in Social Practice and the Creative Environment (Limerick School of Art and Design ) – Graduated October 2013

- BA in Sculpture and Combined Media (Limerick School of Art and Design ) – Graduated 2012

- 2014 – ‘9-10-11’, Street Line Critics and Prequel Programme Collaboration, Ormston House, Limerick, (14th-28th of May)

- 2013 – ‘Engage’, Ormston House Limerick – MA SPACE Showcase and Presentations (9th and 10th of October)

- 2012 – ‘Breaking the Line ----‘,126 Gallery, Galway (1st to the 22nd of December)

- 2012 – Limerick School of Art and Design Graduation Show, Limerick, (9th of June – 15th of June)

- 2011- ‘Outside:Insight’, group exhibition, Brigit’s Garden, Galway (10th July – 4th of September)

- 2011 – ‘Identity’, group exhibition, Limerick School of Art and Design Gallery, Limerick (4th of May –12th of May)

- 2011 – ‘Vitiate’, group exhibition, Franciscan Church and Friary, Limerick (31st of March to the 3rd of April)

- 2011 – ‘Dry’, group performance evening, The Loft, Limerick (8th of February)

- 2011 – ‘My Limerick’, group exhibition, Hunt Museum, Limerick (1st – 31st of January)

- 2010 – ‘Table of Contents’, group exhibition, Limerick School of Art and Design Gallery, Limerick (22nd October – 12th November)

- 2010 – ‘Confusion’, group exhibition, Stix, Limerick (29th of April – 7th of May)

- 2010 – ‘Grey Cabinet’, group show, Limerick School of Art and Design Gallery, Limerick (19th...