La Bastide de Laurence Residency

Presentation 2026:

H.E. Morris, Gaia Ozwyn,

Lawrence Perry

27 March - 23 April, 2026
Private View: Thursday, 26 March, 6-8 pm

LBF Contemporary is pleased to announce a focused presentation of works created during the 2026 La Bastide de Laurence Residency in Provence, France, featuring new small-scale paintings and works on paper by H.E. Morris, Gaia Ozwyn and Lawrence Perry.

H. E. Morris (b. 1989, NY, USA. Based in London, UK) completed her PhD in Fine Art at Newcastle University in 2025, after receiving a MA from Goldsmiths in Contemporary Art Theory, a MFA from the University of Iowa in Painting and Drawing, and a BA from Hampshire College. Morris was a fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown, MA in 2019, and a Soho Revue Artist in Residence in 2023. Her practice is interested in working through a place of emotion to search for a truth. Structuring her paintings through memory, she explores the temporalities of narrative in order to test a notion of time that splits between working through absence and presence. Morris’s work can also be found in the collection of the Green Family Art Foundation, Dallas, TX, US; and in Museu Inimá de Paula, Brasil.

Gaia Ozwyn (b. 1991, Plymouth, UK. Based in London, UK) is a Caribbean-British artist, who completed an MA in Painting at the Royal College of Art in 2024, supported by the Sir Frank Bowling Scholarship. Originally trained as a biomedical scientist and in Medicine, she spent several years working as a doctor in the NHS before committing to a full-time painting practice. Ozwyn’s work explores transitional spaces - borderlands and peripheries - as sites of tension, transformation, and truth. Rooted in the shared experience of inhabiting a corporeal and shifting world, the paintings reflect a dynamic interplay between material presence and transience. In 2025, Ozwyn was selected for the RCA BLK x Yinka Shonibare Foundation residency, held at the G.A.S. Foundation in Lagos, Nigeria.

Lawrence Perry (b. 1999, Singapore. Based in London, UK) graduated from The Slade School of Fine Art in 2021. The London-based artist paints uncanny scenes loaded with a psychological charge and heavy dose of wit. Drawing from film, mythology, literature and fashion, Perry creates scenes that feel familiar yet surreal, interacting with the emotional states of the figures that populate them. Each painting is packed with subtle nuance and contradiction, leading to an uneasy environment in which the viewer is invited to question the psychological states of his characters or the authenticity of their narrative. Highlights of recent exhibitions include ‘After the Past’ at /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, 2023 (Solo); ‘Don’t Tell The Boys’ at /THE PLATFORM, Antwerp, 2022 (Solo); The Bomb Factory Residents Show, The Bomb Factory Covent Gardens, London (Group). Lawrence first came to the public eye in 2016 when his work as an in-house artist for an anti-Brexit lobbyist group was picked up by British GQ, and since featured in Alessandro Michele’s A/W 2020 campaign for Gucci, ‘Gucci, The Ritual.’