Cell Project Space

Lee Maelzer, a graduate from the RCA in Painting over a decade ago, is a Canadian artist based in London whose work is just beginning to emerge and who is about to undertake a Rome Scholarship in October 2004. Her paintings deal with quiet reflections on isolation and fragmentation within communities. From a series of landscapes; dark menacing paintings of trailer parks and dimly lit interiors in Canada to interiors of alternative dwellings and habitation in London. Her work has a maturity, and a painterliness evocative of Vuillard but with a quality and relevancy of contemporary living, which comes from her experience of a hand to mouth existence in London over the years. Her new work embodies all of these aspects.