Laura McCafferty

My first solo exhibition in Nottingham, since graduating from Nottingham Trent University in 2003; I was delighted to be able to showcase a series of large sale artworks, including The Crufts Misfits, Young Card Players and The Brighton Donkeys. For the first time I have included an original pen line drawing, Maggie Fowler and a new series of work titled, The Random Collection.

The Lost exhibition examines the idea that people from this moment in time are slowly becoming the lost generation; our photographic documentation, gathered on mobile phones, digital cameras and computers is Lost by theft or technical breakdown. This interest is an umbrella, under which a collection of documentary tableaux, gathered from a range of personal experiences can sit beneath; images that I have saved and have interpreted through my own vision of cloth, colour, hand-stitch and line.

You can read an interview connected to the exhibition here at Nottingham Visual Arts, http://www.nottinghamvisualarts.net/writing/jun-09/capturing-images-lost-generation

Two other links of interest include http://www.lakesidearts.org.uk/Exhibitions/ViewEvent.html?e=1340&c=5&d=0 and
http://www.craftscouncil.org.uk/crafts-magazine/news/view/2009/laura-mccafferty-in-nottingham?from=/crafts-magazine/news/list/2009/