This August Bank Holiday weekend head down to Old Park Road in St Lawrence for the annual exhibition at The Bunker Gallery.
Artist Lisa Traxler tours her new sculptures and wall-based works to this unique coastal pop-up gallery space alongside her working studio.
The Bunker Gallery
The Bunker Gallery is an experimental project space with an annual selected exhibition within the walls of this decommissioned WWII radar bunker.
The exhibition this year will be ‘Blast Wall’ Lisa’s solo Arts Council Awarded show fresh from its London preview at the Foundry Gallery in Chelsea brought to the Island for this special open weekend.
Exploring the notion of home
When does a place become home? Is it the building, your belongings, memories created, the everyday ordinariness or a place of safety and comfort that we retreat to?
‘Blast Wall’ explores the notion of ‘home’ and the artist’s relationship to her distinctive home, charting her experience of living within a World War Two radar bunker on the south coast of the Island.
The artist
Lisa is continually experimenting with the inter-disciplinary nature of contemporary art and is comfortable working in both two and three dimensions, whilst exploring ways to bring the two together.
Her works are concerned with her connection to her immediate landscape and often incorporate historical references. Hers is a landscape of ‘place’, an abstract concept rather than a traditional depiction.
Lisa is an award-winning artist and elected Member of the Royal Society of Sculptors and the Royal Watercolour Society.
Limited edition mini ‘Ghost’ sculptures
To celebrate this exhibition, Lisa has created a limited edition mini ‘Ghost’ sculpture (pictured below).
This unique hand painted and boxed sculpture is available at the exhibition or contact Lisa to reserve one of these fast-selling collectable pieces.
Further artworks will be available from the artist’s onsite studio.
Artists’ Talk
The Bunker Gallery will also be hosting a talk between Lisa and fellow artist and writer, Jonathan Parsons about the background to ‘Blast Wall’ on Saturday 4th September at 5.30pm.
This will be a ticketed event with limited spaces available. Please contact Lisa to book at: [email protected]
Where and when
Lisa Traxler, ‘Blast Wall ‘ at The Bunker Gallery, takes place over the August Bank Holiday of 27th to 30th August 2021.
Opening times are Friday 2pm to 7pm: Sat/Sun/Mon 11am-4pm and selected dates in September – entrance is FREE.
The Bunker Gallery, Old Park Road, St Lawrence, PO38 1XR.
Find out more
Find about more about the artist by visiting her Website, following her on Instagram and following the Bunker Gallery on Instagram.
Binnel Studios
Over the same weekend, you can head a little further down to the road to visit Binnel Studios for their Annual Summer Exhibition. Find out more.
Image: Lisa Traxler’s Ghost sculptures, ‘Blast Wall’ exhibition at the Bunker Gallery. Photographed by Julian Winslow © Lisa Traxler 2021
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