TALKS AT THE LANE with Louise Bennetts and David Lemm

David Lemm and Louise Bennetts share a preoccupation with making, place and process. Developed through varied material experimentation and manufacturing expertise, their outcomes are distinct yet complementary: forged independently but presented in dialogue for their collaborative exhibition, Urban Fabric.

David’s work is informed by encountered environments, moments and systems, underpinned by process-led investigation. He reassembles collected and existing materials into new contexts, exploring notions of intent, perception and context-specific narrative. His recent work centres on sculptural assemblage and installation, combining printmaking, drawing, timber and found objects.

Louise is a designer and artist who works with fabric to create architectural forms and rhythmic interventions into existing bricks and mortar. She describes her pieces as ‘suspended drawings in space’: compositions that adapt with the movement of daily light. Sourcing widely from waste streams, she seeks to transform material through process rather than sourcing new, experimenting with felting, dyeing and, more recently, earth pigment painting.

The pair met through David’s Daunder Club, a curated local walking project that invites participants to observe their surroundings in new ways and reconsider their place in the landscape. Both are drawn to the evolution of urban environments, creating work that gently recalls the changing spaces we live within: crafted from the humble material detritus that surrounds them, the offcuts, remnants and fringes.

This Talks at the Lane evening will take a conversational wander through their comparable routes of enquiry, considering how their ideas emerge and works unfold, celebrating both their areas of overlap and their unique divergences.

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