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Alana Lake

@alanalake.studio

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Black & Blue, 2019
Hand polished cast glass

On display in Where The Trees Have Numbers
Curated by Jan-Philipp Fruehsorge by @alanalake.studio

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6 years ago

Your mouth lit a match, 2024

New work from the hot shop

#lightup #glassart #burnout #burnbright by @alanalake.studio

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3 years ago

Thanks to @ysi_sculpture for an increadible mentoring program. What a way to wrap up 2025 and slide into the new year...

Thanks @jamesklclarkson for this pic 💫

✌️ by @alanalake.studio

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9 months ago

A few lingering moments from yesterday's performance. The Things We Dreamed Of... a collaboration between myself and artist @jezdolan, at @whitworthart with @portraits_of_recovery.

Thank you to all our participants for their brave, honest and candid tales of addiction and recovery.

🙏 @dompillai 📹
🙏 @paul_paschal_ 🩷
🙏 @sherpa_k.official 🎼
💯 🫶 by @alanalake.studio

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Join us on Friday August 28 for the Opening Party of this year’s Perennial, Haarlem Artspace’s annual exhibition celebrating the artists who make up the growing creative community around the gallery.

Featuring: Shivani Khoshia, Wren Tilbrook, Stevie Davies, Geoffrey Slater, Gavin Muschamp, Diana Green, Pat Shenstone, Gunther Walker, Esther Patterson, Rebecca Gallagher, Pat McCabe, Robert Slater, Peter Knight, Emma Buckley, Anna Spear, Philip Searle, Glennie Kindred, Kate Learmouth, Ruth Cox, another mo poet (Michael Ormond), Amanda Graham, Dan Hamer, Alison Ballard, Tracey Keeping, Paula Moss, Tricia Rice, Maxine Hall, Studio Skai / Joe Winstanley, Dermot Punnett, Danny Marsh, Caroline Hallett, Ryan Leigh, J M F Casey, Maria Dryden, Sloes, Graeme McKenna, Richard Hyde, Lucy Nelson, Peter Bonnell, Ellen Angus, David Manley, Ellen Yates, Jane Walker, Lisa Banks, Sireen Martin, John Lawrence, Jun Rui Lo, Dinosaur Kilby, Lucy Stevens, Lucie Kordacova, Theodora Prassa, Linda J Wallis, Duncan Poulton, Ash Martin, Eddy Dreadnought, Rachel Anne Grigor, Yelena Popova, Nelson + Woodward, Toby Curtis, Lois Gardner Sabet, Jackie Berridge, Lucy Marriott, Matt Midwood, Lucy Vardy, Andy Jackson, Nic Gear, Stella Baraklianou, Georgina Barney, Ava Ord, Jenny Eden, Victoria Ellis, Xin Chen, Devlin Shea, Ruby Waage Townsend, Linda Hemmersbach, Lotti V Closs, Matthieu Leger, Leon Welburn, Corrina Rothwell, Kate Langrish-Smith, Sarah Poots, Fay Nicolson, Rekha Godbole, Jack Kettlewell, Fleur Patrick, Hannah Taylor, Gabriel Tejada, Craig Fisher, Felix Wint, Sarogini Reddiar, Charlotte Coulbert, Amanda Nichol, Callum Harrison, Jo Heron, Eliza O’Boyle, Leah Nyssa Stewart, Liz Harrington, Zachary Jackson, Ivan Smith, Penny Brereton, Marie Paurin, Geoff Diego Litherland, Natasha Dixon, Fiona Allen, Abbie Canning, Johnny White and Amanda Wray, David Pidgeon, Joel Barton, Alexander Stubbs, Anna Pye, Thomas Griffiths, Emma Bolland, Gillian Brent, Orla Kurkierewicz Toland, Dale Christopher Wells, Andrew Bracey, John Rimmer, Eleanor Breeze, Sophie Mackfall, Charlotte Saint Cullen, Helen Carr, Rebecca Elves, Jennie Syson, Tyler Mellins, Alana Lake

@haarlemartspace #contemporaryart by @alanalake.studio

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2 months ago

Last chance to catch the sublimely curated When Things Fail To Cohere, Members Show 2026 @blocprojects

Guest selected and curated by Jun Rui Lo, featuring: Romane Courdacher, Alana Lake, Lucy Marriott and Ngo Chun Tse 👌👌👌👌

@ryanmoyii_ @phoenixchunzz @queenneoprene by @alanalake.studio

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2 months ago

Our Recoverist Month 2026 programme has landed 🛬

Join us throughout September for walking trails, live performance, artist film, workshops and more in Greater Manchester and Liverpool.

Walk in My Shoes | Sat 19 & Sun 20 Sept | @salford_museum
A floor-based artwork activated by visitors' footsteps, led by artist @maisieapritchard and co-created with people in recovery.

The Things We Dreamed Of… | Thurs 10 Sept | @whitworthart
A live, unfinished rehearsal room for queer recovery, co-produced and performed by people in recovery with artists @jezdolan and @alanalake.studio.

If You Could Speak to the World… | Throughout Sept | @NorthernRootsOldham | Free
Audio walking guides with poetry, music and field recordings, co-created by artist Phil Davenport and people in recovery from Oldham.

Recoverist House of Horrors | Date TBC | SODA
Writer @betterwithbooks - Alex Herod and artist @GeorgeGraceGibson explore horror as a creative language for recovery.

Counter Narratives | Tues 29 Sept | @theStockportPlaza | £2.50
Three short artist films followed by a panel discussion on representation in film, recovery and mental health.

Breaking Bread | Sun 27 Sept | @arestaurantwherethelightgetsin Stockport | Free
A playful communal gathering led by associate artist @_joe_hartley, with food, art making and conversation.

Performing Recovery | Wed 30 Sept | Everyman Liverpool.
A book launch with Dr Zoe Zontou, live performance by @Will_Dickie_

Full details and booking links available on our website. by @alanalake.studio

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3 months ago

Yesterday marked the end of my PhD journey. Towards a Pathology of Desire will soon be published and enter the world of research. It has been a long and winding road and I have loved every minute of it (well, almost)...

A big shout out to all the original Cornerhouse gang and the Chat Chat cohort in CH.513 - it has been such a pleasure working alongside you all...

💣✨️

#researcher #phd #callmedoctor #contemporaryart by @alanalake.studio

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4 months ago

We're thrilled to introduce Alana Lake, our fourth artist featured in When Things Fail to Cohere: Members Show 2026!⁠
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Alana Lake’s practice is rooted in queer minimalism. Working primarily with glass, ceramic, metal, found objects and expanded painting, Lake examines how contemporary addictions, desires and repetitive behaviours shape culture and identity. ⁠
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The works submitted for this year's show draws from Hal Foster’s essay 'Death in America', which re-examines Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster series through the lens of ‘traumatic realism’. Traumatic realism acknowledges the persistent presence of death, shock and catastrophe in public life, reflecting Lake's interest in objects carrying political meaning and participating in the reinforcement (or disruption) of power. ⁠
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When Things Fail to Cohere brings together four artists working across sculpture, installation, moving image, print and text to explore different states of uncertainty: the fear of and yearning for power; the freedom and struggle of the queer body; the drifting voyeur; and those who have lost their way. In their shared ambiguity, the works collectively invite a kind of disquieting contemplation.⁠
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📅 25 June 2026 – 8 August 2026⁠
🎇 Launch Event: Thursday, 25 June, 6–8pm⁠
📍 Bloc Projects Gallery, Sheffield by @alanalake.studio

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4 months ago

Looking forward to Thursday's opening
When Things Fail to Cohere

Guest selected by Jun Rui Lo
Launch Event: 25 Jun, 6-8pm
Open 26 Jun - 8 August

Four artists working across sculpture, installation, moving image, print and text to explore different states of uncertainty: the fear of and yearning for power; the freedom and struggle of the queer body; the drifting voyeur; and those who have lost their way. In their shared ambiguity, the works collectively invite a kind of disquieting contemplation.

Alana Lake’s queer minimalist sculptures refer to the force and violence that belie structures of power. Similarly emphasising material realities, Lucy Marriott creates mythical flesh-like forms with inner tubes and rose thorns that play out the lived experiences of queer bodies. Romane Courdacher assembles photographs, sounds and other documentation records to unexpectedly conjure a spectral presence. And by skewing our visual perception, Ngo Chun Tse’s video installation is an uncanny reflection on movement and displacement. Keenly destabilising, When Things Fail to Cohere considers how we navigate and position the social realities that shape our lives.

Selector Bio:

Jun Rui Lo is a Hong Kong-born artist and curator based in Manchester who makes and curates with an interest in identity politics and the aesthetics of ambiguity. Rooted in their gender nonconformity and diasporic experience, their practice explores the fluidity and freedom of identity while giving form to feelings of melancholy and alienation. Lo creates spaces that unfold queer, diasporic, and transnational narratives through exhibition-making.
@queenneoprene @night_toad @noa.naying.nox @ryanmoyii_ @blocprojects #groupexhibition #contemporaryart #glassartist #localart by @alanalake.studio

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4 months ago

🌟 We are delighted to present the work of new PSSA Member Alana Lake

With a practice rooted in queer minimalism, Alana Lake (b. 1981, Tamworth, UK) works primarily with glass, ceramic, metal, concrete, and salvaged industrial fragments. Her work examines how contemporary addictions, desires, and repetitive behaviours shape culture and identity.

Lake completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Wanting / Yearning (2026), Broken Ecologies (2026), Humor My Love (2025–26), and The Omnipotence of Dream (2024). She has received a DYCP from ACE (2024/25), a Research Scholarship and the Project Space Award from the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (2022, 2018), a NEUSTART Stipendium from the Deutscher Künstlerbund (2021), and the Dunoyer de Segonzac and Michael Moser Awards from the Royal Academy of Arts (2008, 2009).

Images

With Force, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)

Public Order, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)

Under Threat, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)

Strike, 2025 (Image courtesy of the artist)

Hidden Danger, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)

Blood Drop, 2021 (Image courtesy of the artist)

Warning Sign, 2022 (Image courtesy of the artist)

your tongue a lit match, 2024 (Image courtesy of the artist)

Forbidden Fruit, 2024 (Image courtesy of the artist)

#alanalake #pssamember by @alanalake.studio

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6 months ago

It's a wrap.

Thank you to everybody @castlefieldgall for your help and support throughout Broken Ecologies.

A huge thank you to Deeqa Ismail, my co-artist, for collaborating on this project - lots learnt along the way, and I’m looking forward to what’s to come...

@deeqa_deeqa_deeqa
📸 @juleslisterphotography
#contemporaryart #sculpture #protest by @alanalake.studio

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