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Contributor to 'Global Studio'

The 'Global Studio' exhibition showcased the work of five artists who have forged significant international networks outside the city of Liverpool. It also showcased different ideas of the city and explored how experience defines the response to different environments, through painting, sculpture, video, text and photography. Lent contributed two video works, ten large photograph/paintings, and seven smaller layer photographic paintings with acetate sheets for this exhibition. A collection of 240 smaller photographic paintings installed together was created through extensive field research whilst driving several times from New York to Los Angeles. The work focused on nondescript or non-places that lay between more known sites as a means of understanding the experience of journey. These images were installed in an amorphous grid in the gallery in order to propose a relationship between the sites passed through in America and the gallery space in Liverpool. This project formed a prototype of sorts for further investigations in the gallery concerning the notion of a disappearance between space and place through representation, which has been a central focus in Lent’s work.

The group of artists discussed the concerns of the exhibition and their approaches to process both before and during installation of the exhibition. These exchanges were instrumental in developing the curatorial concept, leading to a greater integration of the artists’ work within the museum space. This idea of integration and spatial awareness is key to Lent’s research into the ideas of exchange and disappearance within the framework of location. A lecture by the artists was given during the opening reception at the Bluecoat Gallery. Both the form of this installation and the process of installing it informed Lent’s subsequent doctoral exhibition.

The exhibition was curated by Bluecoat curator Sara Jayne Parsons and also contained the work of Andrew Bracey, Amelia Crouch, and Hamish McLain.