Larain Briggs

Art, Jung, Symbolism, the Unconscious, and Transformation

My multidisciplinary practice explores how creative practice can facilitate transformation through the externalisation and integration of unconscious material in symbolic form. Working across painting, installation, assemblage, and film, I investigate trauma, dissociation, symbolism, and individuation through a Jungian-informed framework.

I welcome opportunities to create immersive installations and to collaborate with artists, galleries, curators, researchers, and arts organisations.

Image of a curtain with the words Contact Me across the middle of the image

Larain Briggs’ multidisciplinary practice is grounded in psychological inquiry and focuses on transformation and symbolic expression. Informed by Jungian analytical psychology, her work explores how creative practice facilitates individuation and integration. She responds to personal experiences of fragmentation and disconnection, alongside a search for meaning.

Briggs works across painting, drawing, film, digital media, assemblage, and installation, employing layered materials and symbolic imagery to create spaces that reflect destabilisation and dissociation.

Currently undertaking a Doctorate in Fine Art at the University of East London, Briggs adopts a Jungian art-based approach to her research and creative practice. She lives on the East Coast of the UK and holds a BA (Hons) in Fine Art (Painting) from Camberwell College of Arts (UAL) and a PGCE in Art and Design from Goldsmiths, University of London, complemented by studies in Computer-Aided Visualisation, Analytical Psychology, and Art Therapy.

Apotheosis of Myth

Digital media

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Divergence

Digital media

Complex issues of time and space are considered in this work addressing the concept of the limitless and unfathomable sublime. The same figure is placed in two locations, facing opposing directions, intimating the quantum physics theory of an atom existing in two places at once, questioning reality and the existence of the incomprehensible. The impact of the past and present are depicted by the process of appropriating from previous work that was originally an appropriation from historical art. Paradoxical repercussions and reverberations are a theme that resurfaces frequently in Brigg’s process and is apparent in this digital piece. Layers from previous digital manipulations and physical interpretations of ‘The Last Judgement’ and ‘Serenade’ indicate a convergence of the archetype of the apocalypse and the impact of the digital technological revolution. The desire to escape from the instability and confusion of the environment is expressed and illustrated in the abient running figure.

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