The Wick Culture
Spotlight Painter Lawrence Perry
Championed by artist and Bomb Factory Art Foundation founder Pallas Citroen
Gucci: The Ritual
Lawrence Perry featured in the 2020 Gucci campaign which saw him and his work exhibited.
Critiques of Brexit and celebrations of multicultural Britain. Portrayals of mental illness. Astute observations of day-to-day life in London. They are just some of the topics seared by violent brushstroke into the arresting canvases of the artist – who has also spoken openly and frankly about his synaesthesia and ADHD.
Guto Harri meets Lawrence Perry, the young artist who is trying to express his generation’s rage over Brexit through his brush strokes. One thing is certain: power is in the hands of the painter...
…Immediately caught our attention with his impeccable sensibility for colour, fragmented appreciation for texture as well as an overall conceptual approach to mixed media artistry.
ArtLand
Lawrence Perry, a student at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, was just 16 when the vote for Brexit happened. His furious response to the news that his future would be radically altered was to take to the canvas, attacking it with intense, bold colours and thick, violent brushstrokes. This resulted in an incredibly powerful…
Dansk Magazine
An intangible yet dramatic battle is fought by the artist on a day to day basis, where calamity, placidity, and a pugnacious soul – also evocative – form a climax that intertwines a whirlwind of emotions. We’ve looked through Lawrence’s portfolio, and asked him a few questions to get to know him better – see all of his work here!
Fucking Young!
The artist constantly seeks to portray a “mad” state of mind, an aspect he chose to coin in his recent exhibition, where he visually dissects his teenage-hood years through a lens of “abusive profusion” merged with the hope for moral furtherance. As the creative’s life got tougher as time went on, creativity was his sole refuge, tossing a myriad of rebellious emotions into his practice, obstructed by stern disbelief in…