Lacey Jane Wilburn
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- She/Her
- lwilburn@ecuad.ca
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Bio
Lacey Jane Wilburn studied Fine Art at the University of Grant MacEwan in Edmonton in, received her Bachelor of Fine Art from Concordia University in Montreal, studied abroad at the l’Ecole d'Enseignement Supérieur d'art de Bordeaux in France, and obtained her Master of Fine Art from Emily Carr University. In 2010, she formed the urban art duo LALA (Lacey And Layla Art) who have developed over 150 public mural interventions across Canada, France, Honduras, Uganda and Iceland.
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Lacey Jane is a contemporary artist noted for large-scale paintings that build narratives out of figuration and domestic objects. Her research is rooted in the transformative power of everyday objects and activities to become amplified, empowered and alarming through the act and labour of painting. Her work engages with vacant domestic spaces and still lives where action has been forestalled, rendering pregnant moments of ambiguity that permit space for speculation and storytelling. Primarily a realist painter with a deep love of 19th century realism and a dual practice as an urban mural artist, her practice-based studio research aligns between classical reverence for old master’s oil paintings and an intensely-saturated post-modern glitch aesthetic.