Keith Lane

Keith Lane’s work is concerned with the relationship between our inner selves and external reality. The body as the intermediary, the skin as the interface between ourselves and our artifacts: our collective culture.

So, artifacts whether they are representations of the body or our second skin in the form of clothing are overlain with and form a dialogue between various cultural signifiers such as tattoos, fabrics and ceramic designs.

Specifically the representation of clothing (so often the iconic T shirt) is used as a de facto body, a shell or ghost of the missing wearer, also referencing a ceramic ‘body’ thus aligning the body with an artifact and layers of history and differing cultural representations. This can be realised in many forms, he chooses the cultural constructs of painting and sculpture.