Siân Landau
My practice is a process of shedding the figurative in an image, exploring emotions surrounding intimacy and touch by reducing subjects to a minimal number of marks. The outcome is something that’s been manipulated and devolved, as I seek to represent the emotion of the image in its simplest visual form. After experiencing a bereavement in 2021, my art practice became a conceptual space for me to navigate my grief and its overwhelming effects. As a result, the Sublime has become a prominent theme in my work, exploring obscurity through abstraction of the landscape and creating depth through colour and texture, resulting in shapeless infinities.
b. 1990
Lives and works in London
Education
2010-2013
UCL Slade School of Fine Art
BFA Fine Art
2009-2010
Chelsea College of Art & Design
Foundation Diploma in Art & Design
Awards
2011-2013
Thomas Scholarship
Slade Committee of Scholarships and Prizes
Publications
2014
Roodkapje Rot(t)terdam
Press
2013
Q&A: Slade Artists Do It Better
UCL Blog
Exhibitions/Projects
2015
OwlStand
2014
The Day Job - An exhibition of Gallery Assistants' work
Hoxton Basement, London
July 2-3
Sex
15Folds.com
April
2013
Duet: The 5th Annual Slade/UCL Art Museum Collaboration
UCL Art Museum
BA/BFA Degree Show
UCL Slade School of Fine Art
2011
Heal's Artists In Residence
2010
Assistant to artist Alison Gill
Part of 'Off The Clock' exhibition
The Mile End Art Pavilion