Bio

An artist and teacher, Lorraine Oades has been creating artworks and videos for over 25 years. Her research-based practice often serves a commemorative function. Regularly working with archival materials, her installations are performative in nature, focusing on creative engagement and the value of imagination as life-giving and critically constructive forces.

Works

Manhattan Project Revisited

  • 2021
  • Lorraine Oades, Ryan Clayton

Manhattan Project Revisited" is a digital reconstruction of the Manhattan Project, where the first atomic bomb was created during the Second World War. This artwork recreates critical structures from its three main sites: Los Alamos - New Mexico, Oak Ridge - Tennessee, and Hanford - Washington.

black and white 3d rendered image

Laura 1898-1990

  • 1991
  • Lorraine Oades, Mark Pounds

Laura 1898-1990 is the third in a series of portraits dedicated to women. The images used in the video are drawn from photographs taken by Lorraine’s grandmother, Laura Fisher, when she was a young to middle-aged woman. The text comes from weekly letters Laura sent her over the last eleven years of her life.

still from Laura 1898-1900