Exhibitions/Competitions/Articles:
May 2026: Mothers, Myth and Mythos: maternal narrative knowing
My chapter Between Myth and Reality: The Cultural And Digital Narratives of Childbirth is a part of the book Mothers, Myth and Mythos: maternal narrative knowing due for publication May 2026. More details here
October 2025: Troubling Wonder Online Symposium on Fairy-Tale Studies
Presented the work Algorithmic Eden and Instinct Glyphs at Troubling Wonder Online Symposium on Fairy-Tale Studies organised by University of Cambridge
October 2024: Hashir International Specialist Clinics & Research Institute for Misophonia Tinnitus and Hyperacusis
“Echoes of Birth: Exploring the Intersection of Birth Trauma and Hyperacusis Through Artistic Expression”. More information can be found here.
September 2024: The Journal of Hearing Science (Vol. 14, Issue 3, 2024)
My abstract, titled “Exploring Hyperacusis Through Art: A Journey of Connection and Understanding,” has been published in the Journal of Hearing Science.
September 2024: 7th International Conference on Hyperacusis and Misophonia (ICHM7), Warsaw, Poland
Video presentation titled ‘Exploring Hyperacusis Through Art: A Journey of Connection and Understanding’.
June 2024: Digital Folklore: The Folklore Society’s Annual Conference, King’s College London
Presented the paper ‘Little Red Riding Hood Online: Visual arts exploring the woods metaphor and the suppression of the female voice in the digital world.’
April 2024: Creative Industries Festival 2024, Oxford Brookes University
Presenting the talk ‘The Woods Metaphor & Suppression of the Female Voice in the Digital World’ hosted by the Creative Industries Research & Innovation Network. Recording available here.
March – May 2024: Transforming Literary Places Exhibition, University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia
‘The Woods’ was be on show in the exhibition “Transforming Literary Places” held at the University of Tartu Art Museum, Estonia, from March 28th – May 18th 2024. The exhibition was part of the official program of Tartu 2024 European Capital of Culture. More information here.
February 2024: Online Seminar Series – New Methodologies: Narrative, Time, and Everyday Experiences
Presenting seminar session ‘How can photography, inspired by traditional fairy tales, serve as an artistic form of inquiry to understand the continued suppression of female voices and self-expression in the digital world?’ More information here.
November 2023: The Dart Centre, Southampton
Solo exhibition of recent and previous work and research at The Dart Community Centre, Southampton
July 2023: Candid Arts, London
‘Burnt out’ (2023) from Visualising Birth Trauma research on show as part of Candid Arts Trust Summer Salon exhibition https://www.candidartslondon.com/
June/July 2023: F-Stop Magazine
F-Stop Open Theme issue #119 – https://www.fstopmagazine.com
June 2023: Solent Research Hub, Southampton
Recent work and research on show at Solent University Research Hub
May 2023: All Wales student midwife conference
Recent work and research – at the University of South Wales
May 2023: The 8th Annual Birth Trauma Summit
Recent work and research – hosted by Make Birth Better org. For more information – https://www.makebirthbetter.org/annual-birth-trauma-summit
February/March 2023: F-Stop Magazine
F-Stop February Black & White issue #117 – http://www.fstopmagazine.com/
November 2022: Artist Residency in Motherhood
Artist Residency in Motherhood – http://www.artistresidencyinmotherhood.com
June 2020: ‘The Last Thing To Burn’ By Will Dean cover image
February 2019: F-Stop Magazine
F-Stop February Alternative Portrait issue – http://www.fstopmagazine.com/
November 2018: The Mayflower Gallery, Southampton
Tiny Art Exhibition at Mayflower Gallery, City College Southampton.
January 2017: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
Collaborative project with students from Winchester School of Art, Lineage, was on show at Southampton City Art Gallery as part of British Art Show 8.
November 2016: Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton
‘The Death of the Author’ exhibited along side the work of Jessica Warboys as part of British Art Show 8.
October 2016: Coexist The Arts University Bournemouth Alumni exhibition, The Lighthouse, Poole
Group exhibition showcasing ‘Scars’.
October 2016: F-Stop Magazine
‘How Sweet I Roam’d’ is featured in F-Stop Magazine October 2016 issue.
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/mobilegroupexhibition.html
July 2016: Your Daily Photography
Winner from The Sea contest on YourDailyPhotograph.com.
http://us5.campaign-archive2.com/?u=5a6e385eed959142044dc8096&id=64452a6590
August 2016: British Art Show 8
Southampton Art Ambassador.
May 2016: The Mayflower Gallery, Southampton
Group exhibition showcasing printmaking and photogram work.
January 2016: PotatoMike
https://www.potatomike.com/india-lawton/?rq=india%20lawton
October 2015: The Rag Factory, London
Peg Collective ‘15 ‘… the dissolving dream…’
May 2015: University of Gloucestershire
Guest lecturer
March 2015: Arts University Bournemouth
Guest lecturer
February 11 – March 21st 2015: Southampton City Art Gallery
Part of the exhibition CAKE.
October 2014: Bournemouth Arts By The Sea Festival – Twisted Pictures, The Twisted Teapot Bournemouth
July 2014: Prism | Photo Magazine
Issue 17 Prism | Photo Magazine.
The full 6 page spread and article can be found at the link below:
https://issuu.com/prism_photomagazine/docs/prism_17/80
June 2014: F-Stop Magazine
‘Time’s Relentless Melt’ appeared in F-Stop Magazine issue #65
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html
May 2014: Curator Joanna Szupinska-Myers online exhibition at Saatchi Online
Work selected by curator Joanna Szupinska-Myers for her online exhibition at Saatchi Art online, see the collection here http://www.saatchiart.com/art-collection/Photography/Joanna-Szupinska-Myers/706232/75178/view
January 2014: F-Stop Magazine
An interview about the series ‘Scars’. The full interview can be found on the link below.
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/blog/2014/01/interview-with-photographer-india-lawton/
December 2013 – January 2014: F-Stop Magazine
‘Scars’ appeared in F-Stop Magazine issue #62 – Black and White
http://www.fstopmagazine.com/groupexhibition.html
October 2013 – January 2014: Patchbox Project, Cargo, via del Pigneto 20, 00176 Rome Italy
‘Scars’ appeared in The Elsewhere Factory’s exhibition Patchbox Project – Rome
http://www.elsewherefactory.com/
July 2013: India Lawton ‘Scars’ article – Collater.al web magazine
http://www.collater.al/arts/india-lawton-scars/
April 2013: INDIA LAWTON Article – cajaimebien.com
March 2013: INDIA LAWTON – Photohub
http://photo-hub.co.uk/photographers/india-lawton
February 2013: INDIA LAWTON – Tribu Magazine, Webmagazine
Article about ‘The Will’ and ‘Scars’
http://www.tribumagazine.com/2013/02/27/india-lawton/
2013 Tribu Magazine wrote on the series ‘The Will’;
‘THE WILL’ BY INDIA LAWTON, ARTICLE BY ALICE BRACE – TRIBU MAGAZINE
‘India Lawton, Master of Photography (University of Westminster 2012), has developed her own style of photo assemblage to eerie and intriguing effect.
In her series ‘The Will’, Lawton creates layered images of rooms with the subject matters removed or distorted, giving a nostalgic feel to the collages. The idea itself is relatively simple, though the realisation thereof is simply breath taking. The majority of photographs are pictures taken in the same places at different times, and lined up accordingly, thus creating a hollowed memory effect of black and white windows, dusty fireplaces, and cut-out silhouettes of once-happy families. Despite this particular series being very personal to Lawton herself, the anonymity of the entire work makes it an accessible and reflective piece for all.
The anonymity of which I speak can be found in several of Lawton’s collections, including her most renowned work ‘Scars’. Again, the artist plays with the idea of being forgotten and erased. She takes a range of black and white images – holiday snaps, for the maximum level of juxtaposition – and ‘mangles’ them with fire and scratching. The result is an almost upsetting scrap book of surreptitiously damaged photographs.
Whilst censored identity is not something entirely new to the art world, either in terms of photography or painting, the way Lawton goes about her works does spark the imagination in a brand new way. She does not stray so far abstract that she competes with artists such as Gerhard Richter, nor does she post modernise to the extent of Baldessari. What she has done is created a genuinely unique style of expression somewhere betwixt the two. Despite the emotional range that Lawton’s work may evoke, there is no shortage of whimsy either. Somehow, Lawton has managed to create a catalogue of photography which is both emphatic and mysterious.
Article by ALICE BRACE for TRIBU Magazine ©’
January 2013: The Telegraph
A winner of The Big Picture Photography Competition 2013.
January 2013: THE ART OF MANGLING PHOTOS – Lancia TrendVisions, Webmagazine
http://www.lanciatrendvisions.com/en/article/scars-by-india-lawton-the-art-of-mangling-photos#
2013 Lancia TrendVisions wrote on the series ‘Scars’;
‘SCARS’ BY INDIA LAWTON, THE ART OF MANGLING PHOTOS
‘What would happen if we were to open an old family album and discover that each photo, organized with maniacal care and love, had been torn and burned with permanent scars?
Maybe we’d feel as we do in front of “Scars”, a series by young Londoner India Lawton (who graduated at University of Westminster with a masters degree in photography in 2012), which displays a technique that has surely been seen before, but is touching due to its presentation and subject matter.
‘In her photos all that remains are traces of a ghost family, decapitated memories, remembrances that have been burned forever, faces devoured by woodworms and unknown hands. “Who did this?”, we’d ask in disdain. To then discover that what India is showing us is something else. Something invisible.
In spite of the devastating violence, indeed something remains. The photographs, though mangled, wounded and partly incinerated, resist. And they remind us that statistically they can survive any natural disaster far better than man. They have scars that whisper of an inevitable destiny, but they invite us to take pleasure in our dear remains for as long as we can.
It’s almost as if the song “Nemesis” (2009) by David Gray were playing. Particularly the verse: “I am the photograph / They found in your burned out house“.’
2012: Source: Photographic Review Magazine/Webmagazine
September 5th – 9th 2012: Ambika P3, 35 Marylebone Rd, London NW1 5LS
Voice of the Grain – Ma Photographic show – Featuring ‘Scars’
May 12th – 27th 2012: The Beehive, Public House, Brixton, London
Public and Private Affairs – Contemporary Photographic Exhibition featuring ‘240 Hours’ project.
May 2011 – June 2011: London Gallery West, London
Interim – MA Photographic interim show featuring ‘Scars’.
2011- DYMK Bar. 31 Poole Hill, Soho Quarter, Bournemouth.
Displaying ‘How Sweet I Roam’d’ images.
March 22nd – 24th 2012: Candid Arts Trust, 3 Torrens Street, London
Candid Arts – Arts Exhibition – featuring ‘Scars’ and ‘How Sweet I Roam’d’.
1st February 2011 – 1st March 2011: 50 Old Compton Street, London.
‘How Sweet Roam’d’ photographic work on show in Soho, London.
8th July 2010 – 12th July 2010: CHINE | AUCB at Free Range-Brick Lane, London.
Free Range Graduates of The Arts University College at Bournemouth – Featuring ‘How Sweet I Roam’d’
May 13th-June 2010: Hungarian Culture Centre, Covent Garden, London.
‘How Sweet I Roam’d’ was on display in the ‘Boundless Moments’ János Szász Photography exhibition in Covent Garden.
March 5th-8th 2010: Bournemouth Pier, Bournemouth Beach.
‘How Sweet I Roam’d’ featured in the ‘Through the Lens’ community photography exhibition on Bournemouth Pier.
January 2010-Febuary 2010: The Core, The Eden Project, Cornwall.
‘How Sweet I Roam’d’ A winner of the ‘Bright Young Things’ photography competition 2010. Exhibited in The Core gallery at The Eden Project.
June 2009-August 2009: 198 Contemporary Arts and Learning in Herne Hill, South London.
‘Faith’ Project appeared in the What Is Crime? Photographic Exhibition sponsored by The Independent Newspaper.
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