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City Design (MA)

Bryant Mclaughlin Van-Low

Bryant Mclaughlin Van-Low, artist who has pursued his academic education in both Entrepreneurship and City Design. He holds a BA Hons from Goldsmiths, University of London. Receiving the Frank Bowling Scholarship he is currently pursuing a Masters degree in City Design at the Royal College of Art, where he is exploring the intersection of design, urban planning, and social activism.

Bryant Mclaughlin Van-Low is a artist who currently resides London, United Kingdom. Born in 1997,growing up in Trinidad and Tobago Van-Low's research interests are centered around social art practices, exploring spatial relationships between individuals, objects, natural ecologies, and urban environments. Van-Low's art is registered through visual registers, including painting, installation, and architecture. His work seeks to engage with and challenge the complex interplay between social structures, cultural practices, and materiality.


“Deep Down In Santa Cruz” 100cm x 100cm, Bleached Burlap , Oil Bar, Acrylic

Residing in London, United Kingdom, Bryant Mclaughlin Van-Low is an artist whose research interests focus on social art practices. Born in 1997 and raised in Trinidad and Tobago, Van-Low explores the spatial relationships between individuals, objects, natural ecologies, and urban environments. Through various visual registers such as painting, installation, and architecture, Van-Low's art captures and expresses his intention to engage with and challenge the intricate interplay between social structures, cultural practices, and material histories. By employing selected lenses to explore one's relationship to place, Van-Low's work aims to foster a sense of belonging within one's environments.

Through the project we observe aesthetic imagery used to depict the Palm Species
Trouble In ParadisePhotolithography Shoji Paper, 30 cm x 40 cm
Photolithography Shoji Paper, 30 cm x 40 cm
Photolithography Shoji Paper, 30 cm x 40 cm
Photolithography Shoji Paper, 30 cm x 40 cm

Medium:

Print

Size:

30cm x 40cm
Bleached Burlap , Oil Bar, Acrylic
Deep Down In Santa Cruz“Deep Down In Santa Cruz” 100cm x 100cm, Bleached Burlap , Oil Bar, Acrylic
Installation shot
Installation shot

Medium:

Painting

Size:

100 cm x 100 cm
Found Object, Painting
Nunca es solitaria en Babilonia4 Feet x 4 Feet (48 in x 48 in)
Detail
Nunca es solitaria en Babilonia (detail)

Medium:

Painting

Size:

100 cm x 100 cm
Found Tarpulin , Acrylic, Ink, 2023
Lovers, Lovers, Lovers 4 Feet x 4 Feet (48 in x 48 in),
Found Tarpulin ,  Acrylic, Ink, 2023
Lovers, Lovers, Lovers (close up)

Medium:

Painting

Size:

100 cm x 100 cm
Mapping the Impermanence, 2023
Mapping the ImpermanenceThe conception of home derives from interplay between contradictory forces: mobility and stasis. The navigation of these dynamics within the context of social,political and cultural realities that allow individuals aspire a sense of home, The process consists of a set of interventions that affords a realm of possibilities of reception and homemaking techniques for people in transit. Within a state of cyclical hostility and oppression , the selected modes of intervention afford a sense of optimism.
Mapping the Impermanence, 2023
Mapping the ImpermanenceWe begin an inquiry into the dialectic relationship between mobility,stasis, authority through interrogating the symbolic and physical manifestations of post industrial infrastructures. How may one mobilise various possibilities of reception and home through a practice of subversion , engaging with the materiality of a post industrial infrastructure, we use this as an entry point into our selected site.

Medium:

Installation

Size:

300 cm x 300 cm

Frank Bowling Scholarship