Kirsten Lavers has been a professional artist since 1991 when she graduated from Dartington College of Art, Devon, with a first-class degree in Art and Social Contexts.

 

She has subsequently been funded by bodies such as Arts Council England and the National Lottery, commissioned to make artworks by organisations such as ICA Manchester Festival and the ICA London and exhibited internationally in Chicago, New Zealand and Portugal.

 

Lavers is deeply interested in making artworks that infiltrate everyday life, provoke curiosity, inspire conversation, and challenge preconceptions about what an ‘art experience’ might be or mean. Rather than being medium led her arts practice takes a variety of social forms - manifesting as an event, performance, magazine, drawing, walk, or the formation of a community group.

 

She has often worked in collaboration with other artists - Zwillinge Project 1992-8 with performer Melanie Thompson and Things Not Worth Keeping - with writer Cris Cheek 1999-2006 as well with different communities and groups including homeless people.

 

Since 2013 Lavers has produced an ongoing series of meditative, conceptual drawings under the umbrella title of Admitting the Possibilities of Error. Each drawing begins with the perimeter line of a perfect circle and evolves from the repeated attempt to perfectly copy the preceding line. Often manifest as live actions - drawings may respond to different locations, world events or conversations.

 

As well as making artworks Lavers has also frequently curated exhibitions and from 2002-10 ran a gallery space, situated in a black London Taxicab parked in her front garden, hosting over fifty re-imaginings of its iconic space by artists, performers, poets and musicians from all over the world.

#13 of 20 Unframed posters originally purchased by the artist in Kiev in 1978.

 

This caption is in Russian (most of the posters are in Ukrainian) and reads poignantly ‘I Love Life!’

 

Kirsten started drawing on them on 10 March 2022 as a way of responding to the war in Ukraine.

 

Sale proceeds for Ukraine Support Fund. 

Acrylic Pen on Paper

43.5x28.3cm

Unframed