A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
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A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
Erin Lawlor is a contemporary British painter, she lives and works in London. After receiving her BA History of Art in 1992 from the Sorbonne University in Paris, Erin was based in France until 2013 when she returned to the UK.
Since her first solo show in Paris in 2010, she has exhibited extensively around the world. Recent solo gallery exhibitions have included “Earthly Delights” at Vigo Gallery, London in 2023; and solo shows at Miles McEnery Gallery, NYC in 2022, at Luca Tommasi in Milan 2021 and at Fox/Jensen/McCrory Gallery, Auckland,in 2020. In 2017, a survey exhibition of Erin’s work, “onomatopoeia,” took place at the Rothko Center, Daugavpils, Latvia, and her work was showcased in “Maleri.Nu/Paint.Now,” at the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2016. Earlier in 2023 she had her first institutional exhibition in the UK, ‘Invincible Summer’ at Wellington Arch, in partnership with Apsley House and English Heritage.
In a recent catalogue essay David Anfam speaks of Lawlor’s paintings as ‘Cutting-edge contemporary, her work nevertheless has roots as deep and distant as Ovid’s Metamorphoses in which being is forever in a state of becoming.’
Erin’s work is in numerous public and private collections including the Women’s Art Collection, Cambridge, UK; the Mark Rothko Centre, Latvia, and the Kolon Museum Collection, Seoul. She is represented by Vigo Gallery, London, Miles McEnery Gallery, New York; Fox/Jensen and Fox/Jensen/McCrory galleries, Sydney and Auckland; and Luca Tommasi, Milan.
Erin Lawlor https://www.erinlawlor.com/
A Geography of Colour https://www.ruthphilo.co.uk/a-geography-of-colour.html
Vigo Gallery, London https://www.vigogallery.com/artists/43-erin-lawlor/overview/
Miles McEnenery Gallery, New York https://www.milesmcenery.com/artists/erin-lawlor
Fox Jensen & Fox Jensen McCrory Galleries Sydney & Auckland https://www.jensengallery.com/erin-lawlor-2/
Luca Tomassi Gallery, Milan https://www.lucatommasi.it/artist/42
A Geography of Colour
A special edition of ‘A Geography of Colour’ podcast with painter Katrina Blannin, talking about colour and painting with Ruth Philo, from the Sluice Expo 'World Buidling' in Seyðisfjörður, Iceland with LungA School, originally broadcast on Seyðisfjörður Community Radio, May 2025.
Katrina Blannin was born in London, UK where she currently lives and works. Since graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1997 she has shown her work extensively in the UK and abroad, co-directed artist run project spaces, curated exhibitions and written about contemporary painting. In 2021 she completed a Painting by Practice PhD at the University of Worcester. She teaches as an Associate Lecturer at UAL Camberwell for BA Painting and Foundation Drawing/Conceptual Practice; UCA Canterbury and works both on the editorial board and the mentoring programme for Turps Banana, London, UK.
https://www.katrinablannin.com/
