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Larain Briggs

Harwich
Painter with a multi-disciplinary approach undertaking practice-based research towards a doctorate in fine art.

My creative practice is introspective, examining the transformation of the Self and the collective through individuation. It has developed into a recursive process where I revisit and reinterpret previous works, layering and interweaving images and meanings. Inspired by complexity theory and metamodernism.

My work challenges the boundaries of traditional painting by combining analogue and digital media. I extend my painting practice into immersive experiences that transition between two-dimensional, three-dimensional, and virtual worlds.

Engaging with themes of the sublime, the uncanny, the Real and altered states of consciousness, I aim to evoke emotionally charged experiences that challenge perceptions and provoke introspection.

My research is grounded in psychoanalytical theory, mainly influenced by Carl Jung's concepts of archetypes, the collective unconscious, and individuation. Jung's theories provide a foundation for understanding the symbolic imagery in my art.

Biography

Larain Briggs, a British artist born in 1960, resides on the East Coast in the UK and is pursuing a Fine Art Doctorate at the University of East London.

Her practice is research-based. It explores metacrisis, metamodernism, analytical psychology, and the impact of exponential technologies on relationships and society.  

Briggs holds a BA(Hons) in Fine Art with a specialisation in painting. She has exhibited her work in the UK and Europe.  Her practice has benefited from further studies in Computer Aided Visualisation Art Education (PGCE), Psychology, and Art Therapy at various institutions, including Camberwell College of Art, Goldsmiths, the University of East Anglia, and the Institute for Art in Therapy and Education. She is currently studying at the University of East London.

 

 

As Above, So Below

Emergence

Hybrid 9

Hybrid 4

Mirror Labyrinth

Lines of Flight

This World is Not Conclusion

Upheaval

Serenade

Divergence

Apocalypse

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