Lorraine Snape explores performative artwork as construction, contraption or installation, raiding the chemistry kit and the joke shop before taking wider inspiration from science and nature. The majority of her work recycles found and reclaimed objects which she pairs with off-the-shelf items to produce irrelevant machines and conceptual staging.
Fascinated with the materiality of things and conversely elusiveness itself, through site specific installations and interventions in the landscape, she aims to spark curiosity and ignite a sense of awe. The work is playful, with an anarchic sense of humour, celebrating everyday moments of wonder whilst nervously hinting at impending doom.
Lorraine graduated from Chelsea College of Arts in 2021 with an MA Fine Art (Distinction) and is a member of AltMFA, the peer led alternative art school. She has exhibited in group shows in London and around the UK, as well as overseas, including China. Snape also co-curated the first online iteration of Late at Tate Britain and sees curation as part of her broader practice.
CV
physical shows
2024 19.01-18.02 A Conversation with Water, kindly supported by East Village London and Get Living and in partnership with Hypha Studios, 50 Celebration Avenue, Stratford E20
2023 24.11-26.11 Derelict curated by Uncovered Collective, Safehouse I&II, Peckham SE15
2023 24.11-25.11 Open Studios, ASC Stockwell Road, Brixton SW9
2023 22.09-30.09 Deptford X Festival & Fringe, Creekside Discovery Centre, Deptford SE8
2023 13.04 Altered Planes, Metre-squared, 9 Beaumont Avenue, West Kensington W14
2022 01.07-31.10 Stone Lane Gardens Sculpture Exhibition and Ashburner Prize, Stone Lane Gardens, Chagford, Newton Abbot, Devon TQ13 8JU
2022 07.07-18.07 Equal quantities of everything (curated by Lizzie Cardozo/Shop Front) The Baths, 80 Eastway, Hackney Wick E9
2022 22.06-26.06 Resurgence, We Are Bursting To Tell You, with AltMFA by kind invitation of Sweet ‘Art, The Art Bypass Gallery, 261a City Road, Hoxton EC1V
2022 21.05-27.05 Annotations Are Sometimes Presented In The Margins, supported by Meanwhile Space, Unit 4, Elephant Arcade, 50 London Road, London SE1
2022 26.02-30.04 WSP32 Winter Sculpture Park 2022, Gallery No.32, College Farm Cottages, Manor Way, Bexley DA5 3QG
2021 05.10-10.10 Revenge of the Real, RuptureXIBIT Gallery and Kate Howe Studios, 55 High St, Hampton Wick KT1
2021 18.09-21.09 Rally, Chelsea MAFA Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
2021 15.01-24.01 Grey Archives 2020, part of Yanjiao Biennial, Beijing, China POSTPONED http://www.yanjiaobiennial.com/index.html
2020 22.11-28.11 Calendar Mortal, Chinese Museum of Medical Sciences, TuoRen Health Industrial Park, Changyuan, Henan, China
2020 22.10 Curtain Call, The Shopfront 286, 286 Caledonian Road, London N1
2020 24.09 Calendar Mortal, China Academy of Chinese Medical Sciences, Oncology Department, Wangjing Hospital, Beijing, China
2020 01.09-05.09 Raw, The Shopfront 286, 286 Caledonian Road, London N1
2020 22.03-25.04 The Secret Is Out, Conway Hall, London WC1 POSTPONED
2020 26.02-29.03 Ashes to Passion, St Saviours Church, Pimlico, London SW1
2020 25.02-28.02 Mardi Gras Festival, Cookhouse Gallery & Chelsea College of Arts, Millbank, London SW1
2020 13.02-14.02 Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow? Cookhouse Gallery, Millbank, London SW1
2019 12.12-20.12 Un1t, Triangle Space, Millbank, London SW1
2019 05.12-06.12 Side Bar, Cookhouse Gallery, Millbank, London SW1
2019 16.10 Bureau de Change, International Festival, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
2019 08.10-11.10 Off Site, Tate Britain, Millbank, and surrounding area, London SW1
2019 02.10-03.10 Departure Lounge, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
2019 30.05-31.05 Plosives, Guest Projects, London E8
residencies
2022 20.06-26.06 The Art Bypass Gallery with AltMFA by kind invitation of Sweet’Art, London EC1V
2022 20.05-27.05 Elephant Arcade supported by Meanwhile Space, London SE1
2020 20.09 Waiting Residency
2019 24.05-01.06 Guest Projects, London E8
projects
2020 05.11 TV Gallery, television channel gallery via Roku set-top box, most of the world
2020 31.03-09.06 Toilet Press Releases, Gallery at home, Pimlico, London SW1
press
2022 07.04 Build Hollywood, Adrian Burnham https://www.buildhollywood.co.uk/features/expect-the-unexpected-as-contemporary-sculpture-comes-to-bexley/
online shows
2021 09.07-10.08 Relay #3, https://www.instagram.com/relay/
2020 15.12 Constructing Landscapes; Building Worlds, Late at Tate Britain Online in response to Turner’s Modern World exhibition https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/online-event/late/late-tate-britain-online
2020 08.10 Off Kilter, Graduate Showcase, UAL https://graduateshowcase.arts.ac.uk/staged/projects/6323/cover?guid=bc0ba379-f29a-4b76-b627-557a419cb53c
Calendar Mortal, Healing Through Art https://happydy.wixsite.com/healingthroughart
2020 24.09 Calendar Mortal, Healing Through Art https://happydy.wixsite.com/healingthroughart
2020 05.09 Cognitive Contagion, Poppy Woodeson curatorial project, Ideas that are art communicated through the use of words presented on social media. Instagram @cognitivecontagion
2020 29.06 Don’t Rain On My Parade (Pride 2020), Extraordinary Times
2020 21.05 She said what? MS Teams Performance
2020 13.04 [un]COMFORT ZONE https://soooup.wixsite.com/comfortzone
curation
2024 19.01-18.02 A Conversation with Water, kindly supported by East Village London and Get Living and in partnership with Hypha Studios, 50 Celebration Avenue, Stratford E20
2023 13.04 Altered Planes, with kind thanks to Metre-squared, 9 Beaumont Avenue, West Kensington W14
2022 21.05-27.05 Annotations Are Sometimes Presented In The Margins, supported by Meanwhile Space, Unit 4, Elephant Arcade, 50 London Road, London SE1
2021 18.09-21.09 Rally, Chelsea combined 19/20 and 20/21 MA Fine Art Graduate Show, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
2020 15.12 Constructing Landscapes; Building Worlds, Late at Tate Britain online, in response to Turner’s Modern World exhibition https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/online-event/late/late-tate-britain-online
2020 07 Congregate, Late at Tate Britain, in response to Heather Philipson Duveen Commission, Tate Britain, London SW1 POSTPONED
2020 22.03 Festival of Alternative Arts, alternative art school symposium, Conway Hall, London WC1 POSTPONED
2020 25.02-28.02 Mardi Gras Festival, Cookhouse Gallery and Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1 https://artschaplaincy.net/projects/chelsea-mardi-gras/
2019 27.05 & 30.05-31.05 Plosives AltMFA social dinner and exhibition at Yinka Shonibare’s Guest Projects, Andrews Road, London E8 https://www.guestprojects.com/BlogDetail/ArtMID/521/ArticleID/10/PLOSIVES
teaching
2021 27.09-30.09 Associate Lecturer, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
2020 11.10-09.12 Associate Lecturer, MA Fine Art, Chelsea College of Arts, London SW1
workshops
2023 30.09 ‘Make and take home a simple decorative hanging’, Deptford X Festival & Fringe, Creekside Discovery Centre, Deptford SE8
collections
2022 01.03 True. House curated by Inhouse Art, True Global, 29 Buckingham Gate, London SW1