Jayne Lawless (born 1974) is an English installation

artist An artist is a person engaged in an activity related to creating art, practicing the arts, or demonstrating the work of art. The most common usage (in both everyday speech and academic discourse) refers to a practitioner in the visual arts o ...

from

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. A 2011

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Masters graduate of

Bath Spa University Bath Spa University is a public university in Bath, Somerset, Bath, England, with its main campus at Newton Park, about west of the centre of the city. The university has other campuses in the city of Bath, and one at Corsham Court in Wiltshi ...

following a successful post-graduate diploma course at

Stass Paraskos Stass Paraskos (; 17 March 1933 – 4 March 2014) was a British-Cypriot painter, sculptor, and writer. Born and raised in Cyprus, he spent much of his life working and teaching in England, where he famously became embroiled in a 1966 obscenity ...

Cyprus College of Art The Cyprus College of Art (CyCA) is an artists' studio group, located in the village of Lempa on the west coast of Cyprus. It was founded in 1969 by the artist Stass Paraskos; the current director is the Cyprus-based artist Margaret Paraskos. H ...

in Lempa (Lemba),

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, Jayne has exhibited work in London, Liverpool, Suffolk, Poland and Slovakia often as part of an

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. Four years after graduating from

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in 2004, she was a shortlisted finalist of the inaugural

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in 2008, Liverpool's Capital of Culture year, for her work ''Tunnel'', a collaboration with Polish born New York architect Marta Gazicka. From a staunch

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supporting family, her brother is John Lawless of former Liverpool Folk Indie duo Tom and the Lawless.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Lawless, Jayne English installation artists Living people Artists from Liverpool Alumni of the University of Suffolk Alumni of Bath Spa University 1974 births