Abstract

Legacy
Lothar Götz, Emma Bennett, Loucey Bain
1st August - 5th September 2024

In 2014 Platform A presented a solo exhibition of the work of Lothar Götz. The idea was to have Götz mentor an emerging artist with a visual language with some similarities to his own. Götz shared some of his techniques and ideas with the mentee during the installation. The emerging artist then went on to establish herself as a significant practitioner. That mentee was Emma Bennett. Her work has since developed in terms of colour, composition and scale and, like Götz, regularly makes reference to architecture. Legacy brings recent work from these two artists together for a visual conversation that is augmented by the work of an emerging artist and new mentee, Loucey Bain. Bain’s brutalist plasterboard sculptures bring physicality to the ideas of Götz and Bennett. The outcome is a three-way visual dialogue around colour and form underlined by the importance of strengthening professional relationships as the legacy continues.