Born London, England, 1978
Lives & works in London

Statement

Jamie Lau’s practice uses photography, video and sculpture, to explore ideas around anxiety, in the form of inertia, impermanence and disorientation. His work often involves re-contextualising landscapes and objects, through intervention or subverting their original meaning, purpose or function. He is interested in the ‘decisive moment’ within narratives, and the drama and uncertainty that belongs to that specific space and time. It’s this uncertainty, and anticipation of what is to come that is inherent within his exploration of anxiety.

In his videos Respire and Tunnel, Lau explores anxieties over drowning and falling asleep whilst driving, a theme echoed in his photographic series Car Crash Flowers which documented wilting and decomposing roadside tributes. For the series The Dark Ages he presents fast food restaurants isolated in black limbo spaces, glowing like beacons in the night. Set adrift like ships on a black sea they become pockets of recognition within an uncertain terrain. He is currently working on a new body of sculptural work that questions cultural meaning inherent within architecture.

Education

MA Fine Art Sculpture
The Slade School of Fine Art
2009 – 2011

BA (Hons) Critical Fine Art Practice
University of Brighton
(First Class)
1998 – 2001

Residencies

Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
January 2010

Additional

Co-Curator
Knights Move: Chess Laboratory
May 2009

Writer
Sublime magazine / www.sublimeart.net (Spain)
2001 - present

Catalogue foreword
Julie Henry (represented by Wilkinson Gallery)
Dyed in the Wool Exhibition
Southampton Solent University, 2004

Editorial Intern
Contemporary magazine
January – April 2003

Documentation & Press

See Press

Solo Exhibitions

Respire
October – November 2004
Centro de Cultura Antigo Instituto, Gigon, Spain

Group Exhibitions

TEOTWAWKI event night
8 June 2010
Shoreditch House, London

TEOTWAWKI
EA Byrne & Jamie Lau
14 May - 13 June 2010
FOLD Gallery, London

22 Portsea Place
May 2010
London

Essays: Redefined
March 2010
Woburn Research Centre
London

Happenstance
13 + 14 March 2010
Unit 2, Bouverie Mews, London

Alternative Risk Transfer,
December 2009,
The Rag Factory, London

Pop Up Shop,
September 2009,
Chalk Farm, London

Big Deal 2,
July-August 2009,
Discovery Park, London

Creekside Open,
June 2009,
APT Gallery, London
(Selected by Mark Wallinger)

Art Car Boot Fair,
June 2009,
Brick Lane, London

Knights Move,
May 2009,
House of Fairy Tales,
Tate Modern, London

Art Car Boot Fair,
June 2008,
Brick Lane, London

Art Car Boot Fair,
July 2007,
Brick Lane, London

Art Below,
June 2007,
Piccadilly Tube station, London

Not out of the Woods Yet,
October 2006,
The Projection Gallery, Liverpool

Projektor,
September 2006,
Café Gallery Projects, Southwick Park, London

Animal Encounters,
March 2006,
Oxford House, Bethnal Green, London

Art Car Boot Fair,
June 2006,
Brick Lane, London

Art Interzonas 2006,
February - March, 2006,
Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza, Spain

Post Everything,
August 2004,
Permanent Gallery, Brighton

Hetrogenesis,
July 2002,
Espacio Liquido, Gigon, Spain

Arte Alternativo,
October 2001,
Centro de Cultura Antigo Instituto, Gigon, Spain

April 2001,
Public Life, London

Eventual Consequences
May 2001
Public Life
Spitalfields, London UK