Becoming: Margaret Lansink

1 - 12 October 2024 London

Overview

A movement of becoming, eternal becoming

- Simone de Beauvoir

Margaret Lansink's work is created around a strong signature of aesthetic, poetic and minimalistic images that convey a powerful emotional message. This is substantiated by her usage of intuitive photography, creating imagery that presents an open and honest reflection of her emotions, doubts, reflections or struggles in life. Shot as 'self-portraits' in the broadest sense of the concept, they reveal her inner emotions at a certain time, space and interaction.

To capture the atmospheric variety of these inner emotions, Lansink uses various analogue techniques and experiments with making collages, using paint, gold leaf, charcoal as well as old darkroom technology like liquid light or platinum palladium printing - to produce beautiful and often unique artworks.

Margaret Lansink studied at the PhotoAcademy in Amsterdam, le Masterklass in Paris, and Atelier Smedsby in Paris, before embarking on a career as a fine art photographer.

She is also represented by Bildhalle (Zurich and Amsterdam) and Galerie XII (Paris and Los Angeles).

Her artworks have been exhibited by her galleries around the world, and at leading art fairs including Paris Photo, Unseen Amsterdam Photography Fair, Photo London, Photo Basel, Moderne Art Paris Fair, and Rotterfam Art Fair.

She was awarded the Grand Prize of Hariban Award (2019), and shortlisted for the Gomma Grant (2018).