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Rachel Lancaster
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'Stars',colour photograph,32"x48",2011
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Working in photography, sound, painting and moving image Rachel Lancasters practice reflects upon the language of cinema.
Lancaster filters and controls the information given to the viewer. Re-contextualised the potential reading of imagery and sounds becomes open ended and ambiguous. Isolated from the unknown events that proceed or follow, Lancaster presents irresolvable fragments that play upon the viewers desire to connect with a greater narrative.
Previous works used the process of digital photography and audio sampling to extract cinematic moments directly from found sources which were then translated into paintings,drawings and re-edited sound loops.
The subject matter of Lancaster’s recent work draws from her experience as a musician and performer and uses this as the catalyst to create a dialogue between photography, performance and cinema.
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'Microphone', colour photograph,8x10",2011
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Lancaster’s recent work combines her experience as a musician and performer with appropriated early twentieth century film and theatre special effects to create a dialogue between performance and cinema.
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'Stage',colour photograph, 34x24",2011
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'Blanket'oil on canvas, 230x330cm,2009.
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'Bed',250x330cm,oil on canvas,2009.
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Lancaster invites us to question what we are experiencing. Using techniques such as matte painting, model making, lighting and Foley sound effects, to examine the interplay between reality and illusion. There is a focus on the pleasure in the act of looking and listening, a push/pull of deception. Colour, movement,sound, light, surface and scale are used to set up a playful relationship to the viewer. The manipulation of scale and space is used to to disorientate in a subtle way. Juxtapositions of sound and vision are used to trigger individual associations and emotional responses.
At a time when digital media has a prevalent role in image making Lancaster examines how this can combine with lo-fi techniques and handmade effects to investigate the sense of wonder and mystery that can be created through the simple, economic manipulation of readily available household materials.
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'Treacle', 8min video, install Tyneside cinema
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