Jennifer Lauren Martin

About

Jennifer Lauren Martin (b. 1990) is a London-based writer/director and artist-filmmaker. Lauren Martin's interdisciplinary practice spans fine art, film, and writing, focusing on interpersonal belonging. Their characters frequently undergo a journey in which psychological tension and drama manifest as physical effects. Bodies, in their breakdowns, surface what has been felt and suppressed. In this way, the body becomes another actor or writer in the narrative.

Influenced by film critic Angelica Jade Bastién's term The Feminine Grotesque, Lauren Martin sees this as the twitch manifesting in our outward presentation. This relation is rooted in psychological discomfort in being and a fear of never reaching a place of understanding with ourselves and our connections to others. These internal/external conflicts play out within Lauren Martin's work with attention to emotional realism, somatics, and the sensorial. Across materials and mediums, they aim to stretch and prod what can be made perceptible.

Martin is a Senior Tutor at the Ruskin School of Art, Oxford University, UK. They are a member and co-director of not/nowhere, a black and POC-led artist workers' cooperative working with analogue film.

Their work has been presented at BlackStar, SOUL Fest, European Media Art Festival, Alchemy Film and Moving Image, Montreal International Documentary Festival, British Shorts Berlin, Somerset House, LUX, Videoclub Selected X and more. Lauren Martin's public art projects took place at ICA, South London Gallery, and The Showroom. Solo exhibitions include: Under the pink of my tongue, I found love Kingsgate Workshops, London, UK (2022); TEETH Primary, Nottingham, UK (2019-20); Channel 6 Turf Projects London, UK (2019).

Lauren Martin is a Film London Lodestar Artist Filmmaker 2021 and winner of Best Screenplay at SOUL Fest 2021 for TEETH. They are a 2022 participant of the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (Maine, USA) and We Are Parable x Channel 4's programme Momentum (London, UK).

Available for freelance and commissions, including:
filmmaking
editing
copywriting & copyediting
consultation
decks & treatments
design
image research
photography
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