Corpus: Her embodied Archive
Artist & Works
Lara Gallagher


Lara Gallagher is a French-British artist whose practice spans drawing and visual communication. After completing an international education in the South of France, she moved to London to pursue her studies in the arts, where she has lived and worked ever since.
Lara has exhibited extensively both in the UK and internationally, including in Madrid, Spain at Galería Nueva; Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg at Urban Art Gallery; Sheffield at Fronteer Gallery; and in London at Stour Gallery, Take Courage Gallery, Citizens Art Gallery, Tebbs Gallery, Lake Gallery, J/M Gallery on Portobello Road, and The Art Studio Pop-Up on Kensington Church Street. She has most recently participated in a group exhibition in Golders Green, London.
Her work is informed by an enduring interest in both contemporary science and ancient, esoteric, or pagan traditions, which intersect in her explorations of duality, identity, and perception.

email:laragallagher.art@gmail.com
website: http://www.laragallagher.org
ins:@laragallagherart




Twists & Tangles 01 (2023), Twists & Tangles 03(2024), Twists & Tangles 05 (2024) , Twists & Tangles 06(2024), Knots & Locks 01 (2023) and Hoops & Loops 02(2024)
graphite on paper

My work is grounded in an understanding of the body as more than a physical form. I approach it as a site where memory, tension, and transformation are held, often quietly and indirectly. Rather than depicting the body itself, my drawings attend to its intangible dimensions—traces of pressure, accumulation, and what remains unseen or unresolved.
Working primarily with graphite, I use layering, contrast, and interruption as central processes. These gestures echo acts of inscription and erasure, reflecting the ways experience registers over time. Dense, compressed marks suggest containment or entrapment, while lighter passages and open spaces point toward moments of release and the impulse to move beyond limitation.
The work exists in a space between presence and absence, restraint and freedom. It considers the body as both a site of constraint and a point of transition—an archive shaped not only by what is endured, but by the continual desire for transformation and release.