Contemporary Art with a Rock n'Roll edge!
£1,500.00
Hand-embellished diamond dust and constellation hand-drawn on Hahnemuhle 308gsm photo rag paper.
100 x 100 cc (Unframed)
107 x 107cm (Framed)
Edition of 50
Artists Description/commentary
Introducing a new colour of the classic, 'To The Moon & Back' series. My dad used to say this to me when i was a little girl, and it never gets old.
So how much love are we talking???? In one year, the human heart generates enough energy to drive a truck 7,300 miles (20 miles per day). If we consider the lifetime of a human to be 70 years (Uk average is 82 but other countries much lower), then our heart generates energy enough to drive a truck 511,000 miles.
Consider this: 20 miles x (365 days/1 year) x 70 years = 511,000 miles. The distance of the Earth from the moon is 384,400 km, which is approximately 238,855 miles. To the moon and back to earth, 238,855 miles x 2 = 477,710 miles. Therefore, when you say you love a person to the moon and back, you love this person with all the blood your heart has pumped... your entire life. And some more.
Lauren Baker, born 1982, from Middlesbrough, UK. Currently lives and works in London.
Lauren Baker is a British contemporary multidisciplinary artist who exhibits internationally. Her work explores human connection, metaphysics and the expansiveness of the universe. Lauren's signature neon works portray the power of energy through her poetic typographic and celestial chakra artworks. Passionate about environmental issues and sustainability, the artist uses light to express the 'secrets of the universe' and aims to raise the vibration of love and connection within the world.
She is an experimental artist whose practice expands across multiple disciplines and mediums to address the vastness of the universe. Conceptually grounded but also aesthetically striking, her work involves making the unseen seen. Baker’s visual style is often built around either emitting or reflecting light. Many of her pieces directly reference the frequencies emitted by astronomical bodies, as well as those attributed to plants, human organs and chakras.
A sense of mystery and emergence - of connecting with something beyond or much bigger than our own immediate world - pulsates throughout her work.
One of her most recent collaboration was for Frieze Week, when Baker collaborated with BMW Culture X Frieze to launch public light art ‘One Thought Changes Everything’, on October, 2020.
Her large scale celestial public art installations have been commissioned in the UK and as far as the Middle East. Most recently, sculptures - inspired by the frequency of the Sun and the Moon - both at 4 metres tall, were placed in a Unesco Protected World Heritage site in the desert (Mar 2020).
Commissioned by Croydon Council to create a 7.5-metre neon across a bridge (2017), Lauren's neon typography is renowned for bringing hope and joy. She has created installations at The V&A, Tate Britain and Tate Modern and her work are held in collections worldwide. The 3.3 metre public light art installation, 'Luna Woman Power Totem' was recently commissioned (Feb 2022) by Enfield Winter Lights, curated by Artist Hive Studios. Created in celebration of the suffragette movement in 1914.
