Lorsen Camps Statement Lorsen's love of charity shopping and second-hand objects has led him to work in what he calls a ‘charity shop aesthetic’; creating works which straddle classifications such as ‘folk art’ and ‘craft’, but fall deliberately within a fine art context. Lorsen uses basic art media which have become rather unfashionable and culturally overlooked, such as nail and thread and felt, and reinvents them. He choose images which diverge from the generic expectations of this type of media. His series of filmic explosion scenes or grappling wrestlers contrast violent and kinetic subject matters with the playful, static nature of the felt.
Lorsen amplifies the notion of there being something precious in the worthless, something beautiful in the disregarded, by also using the discarded objects he finds and collects (like broken car wing mirrors or charity shop toys) as inspiration for these art works. cv Qualifications 2002 – 2005 Birmingham City University - Birmingham Institute of Art & Design. 1995 – 1998 University of Warwick Curated / Group Exhibitions
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Taking school groups to discuss and interact with sculptural works on the campus
Designed and facilitated an art workshop for a group of adults with learning disabilities Published Work Beauty in the Disregarded: The Charity Shop Tour, (Calicoville Press, 2010)
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