Lawrence James Bailey UK, b. 1976
I’m always fascinated in marginalized landscapes and no-mans-lands; areas on the edge of cities which are normally banished from our sense of what is pastoral or romantic.
Lawrence James Bailey grew up in the post-industrial ruins of 1980’s Britain before studying Fine Art at the Hull School of Art and later at De Ateliers in Amsterdam. His interest in geography, history, theatrical set design, suburban life, religious cults, protest movements, and folklore serve as points of reference in his work. People’s relationship with the landscape forms a backbone to this work – in particular how individuals use their surrounding environment for hidden, subversive or introverted acts.
“I’m always fascinated in marginalized landscapes and no-mans-lands; areas on the edge of cities which are normally banished from our sense of what is pastoral or romantic. I depict these bastard spaces as being in flux, unstable, uncertain and mysterious, just like the people who thrive there. I use textiles as it’s a material which can be stretched, torn, folded, cut and fused together… therefore mirroring the transient nature of the land around us and the earth under our feet. Textiles are also an art form which fluctuate between being a two-dimensional pictorial space and being a three-dimensional object. They can also be utilitarian or totally useless”.
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Dance Before The Storm , 2025 -
Domestic Flesh, 2025
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Out of Line, 2025
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Rituals of the Tame, 2025
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Study in Blue Camo, 2025
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And Who Are You?, 2024
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Are We Not All Made of Stars?, 2024
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Cosplayer, 2024
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Derek As That Guy You Meet Who Wants To Tell You That You’re Doing Everything Wrong, 2024
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Eglé in Camouflage, 2024
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It’s In Our Nature, 2024
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Self Portrait With iPhone, 2024
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Study For Everything Being Political, 2024
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This Place Is Haunted (Otto Dix), 2024
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We Transform When No One’s Looking, 2024
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2020 Outside, 2023
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A Place Called Melancholy, 2023
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A Portrait of Werner Herzog at the Edge of the World, Pinned To My Wall on a Rainy Winters Day, 2023
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A Sanctuary From Frenzy, 2023
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Alice Outside, 2023
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Beach Body, 2023
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Decorative Element, 2023
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Gus as Saint Anthony The Hermit, 2023
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In Ones Element, 2023
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Jorge , 2023
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Outdoor Adventures>Stefano in Hospital, 2023
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Rude and Uncivilized, 2023
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Rude and Uncivilized, 2023
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Stefano Gone Wild (Nr.1 Standing), 2023
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Tanja Outside, 2023
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Timothée Chalamet as a Woodland Wildman Recluse, 2023
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When You Think No One’s Looking (reversible), 2023
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A Merry Company (self portrait with mud), 2022
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Insides Outside, 2022
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Study For Eglė in Camouflage, 2022
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Study For Guy in the Woods Although He’d Prefer Not To Be, 2022
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Bare Machine
Lawrence James Bailey 4 Apr - 17 May 2025Galerie Bart is proud to present the solo exhibition Bare Machine by Lawrence James Bailey (1976, UK), exploring the impact of a rapidly changing world on human nature. The title...Read more -
Jubilee exhibition 20 years Bart
Britte Koolen, Choki Lindberg, Eirik Jahnsen, Femke Dekkers, Hemaseh Manawi Rad, Henk Wildschut, Isabelle Wenzel, Jannemarein Renout, Jeppe Lauge, Rotteveel Vermeer, Kevin Bauer, Kuno Grommers, Lawrence James Bailey, Marleen Sleeuwits, Nomin Zezegmaa, San 29 Jun - 23 Jul 2023This year, Expo and Galerie Bart are celebrating a twenty-year milestone in the art world. In 2003, Bart started out with a vision of wanting to provide young artists with...Read more
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Art Rotterdam 2025
Hemaseh Manawi Rad & Lawrence James Bailey 28 - 30 Mar 2025Galerie Bart is proud to present the works of Hemaseh Manawi Rad and Lawrence James Bailey at Art Rotterdam 2025. Two exceptional textile artists whose approaches to needle and thread...Read more -
Art on Paper Brussels 2024
Toni van Tiel & Tamara Muller & Lawrence James Bailey 3 - 6 Oct 2024This year, Galerie Bart is proud to present drawings by Tamara Muller and Lawrence James Bailey, alongside gouaches by Toni van Tiel. Both Muller and Bailey focus on human expression...Read more
Born in 1976 in Stoke-on-Trent, UK, Lawrence James Bailey currently works and lives in Amsterdam. Lawrence graduated with a BFA from the Hull School of Art in 1998. He was then accepted for a two-year residency at De Ateliers in Amsterdam, which he successfully completed in 2001.
Lawrence has been exhibiting in solo and group exhibitions all over the United Kingdom, The Netherlands, Spain and Latvia since 1995. These include for instance the ‘Rijswijk Textiel Biennale’ in Museum Rijswijk in 2019, ‘Brownsfield Research Centre’ at AirSpace Gallery in Stoke-on-Trent in 2018 and ‘Survival Kit 6 / Utopian City in the Latvian Centre’ For Contemporary Art, Riga in 2014. Lawrence and Galerie Bart have been working together since 2017, resulting in solo, duo and group exhibitions and fair participations, such as Drawing Room Madrid.
In 2020 Lawrence was artist in residence at AIR Guiniguada in Gran Canaria. In 2016 he won the Wonderlust photo contest organised by De Hallen in Haarlem and in 20o2 he received a stipend from the BKVB Fund. His work can be found in the collections of the Amsterdam Museum, Europol, Huize Frankendael, the Amsterdam Graphic Atelier, CBK Amsterdam, Deiska, Hotel WOW and De Ateliers. In addition, Lawrence has been involved in the creation of multiple magazines and theatre productions.
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Art Rotterdam 2025
Hemaseh Manawi Rad & Lawrence James Bailey 28 - 30 Mar 2025Galerie Bart is proud to present the works of Hemaseh Manawi Rad and Lawrence James Bailey at Art Rotterdam 2025. Two exceptional textile artists whose...Read more -
Art on Paper Brussels 2024
Toni van Tiel & Tamara Muller & Lawrence James Bailey 3 - 6 Oct 2024This year, Galerie Bart is proud to present drawings by Tamara Muller and Lawrence James Bailey, alongside gouaches by Toni van Tiel. Both Muller and...Read more