Student of the Year at Lavit Gallery

Student of the Year Award                     
 27^th Jan – 12^th February 2022
 
Lorraine Parker, Lorraine Poulter, Luna Torresel Rave, Fionn van der Noll.
 
The Lavit Gallery has been awarding The Student of the Year Award to a Crawford College of Art and Design graduate since 1967. This award is a core part of our gallery program and is there to support the development of emerging artists who show promise and potential.
 
The Lavit Gallery is delighted to be able to award the winners an exhibition alongside a cash prize, which we are grateful to, yet again, have this sponsored by Robert Nathan Business Advisors, Audit & Tax, Cork.
 
This exhibition includes felt, basketry, print, video, and more from artists Lorraine Parker, Lorraine Poulter, Luna Torresel Rave, Fionn van der Noll.
 
Fionn van der Noll's work is based within a sculptural and printed language, exploring blends of traditional techniques and newer technologies, from basket weaving to digital painting. This practice focuses on sanctuary for declining ecosystems and a possible utopian future.
 
The work of Lorraine Parker explores female identity in the domestic space. She uses everyday objects and materials to represent the merging of body, object, and the complex roles of women within this sphere.
 
Lorraine Poulter seeks out buildings that are abandoned, neglected, overlooked or are facing demolition in the Irish countryside.  She is interested in capturing the ethereal and lost memories of these places, creating a link between the past and the present. Images are transferred onto a variety of papers and fabrics and stacked in layers, each different from the one beneath representing distinct chapters in the history of the building.
 
Through a combination of jarring video and sound focused on both spaces that might be comfortable to us and those that are unknown, Luna Torresel Rave’s work explores what it means to be displaced, and questions the possibility of integrating oneself into an unknown environment.