Molly Lambourn

Bio: Molly Lambourn is an emerging Fine Artist from Kent. She is currently completing her master’s in Fine Art at UCA Canterbury and is also completing an artist residency with Jane Austen House. Her practice specialises in drawing, she draws obsessively on 2D and 3D forms. Molly’s practice is inspired by literature and explores themes of womanhood, self, and mundanity. Her work is decadently intricate and detailed, subverting conventional images of beauty and femininity to explore darker realities. Her recent practice has involved completing an artist residence with the Cordial Eye Gallery in Massachusetts, focusing on how the concept of ‘Joy’ can be used for sustained political activism. She is a continued Artist in Residence for Mouthing Off Magazine. Molly has worked with Pow! Thanet to develop engaging community exhibitions, her co-organised ‘Women in Protest’ show celebrated the Greenham Women. Adapting to Covid 19 which prevented the conventional use of galleries, the show utilised Margate’s Broad Street and took over several windows of local businesses. She has also recently been selected for the RBA 2021 Rising Star’s Exhibition.

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Take a pause

Day 19

As in in RBA Rising Star's show 2021, The Beaney Museum of you Exhibition 2020, Isolation Exhibition 2020 and more...

In flowers: Cheat day throwback

Day 18

Planning ahead...

Day 17

Starting with gentile presentations of characters to a subversive one of Jane

Breaking the gentility: Month one on my residency with Jane Austen House

Day 16

3 min Elinor Dashwood

Day 15

Work in progress - Jane's writing was not without difficulty, her time in Chorton provided great productivity.

Work in progress- Jane in Chorton Leaf

Day 14

I will make a vase. This vase will hold on it some of the key aspects to Jane's life and character that many people are not aware of. Themes could include her relationship to the seaside and its sexuality. Another will be the 'rough' and 'hard' nature of day to day life for Jane, the displacement of home, loss of her father and how she knew how to farm and was far from the gentile idol we might think she was. She was a sassy spinster, hilarious and equally b**chy.