Thanks to everybody that came down to the opening of Broken Ecologies @castlefieldgall 🫶
1. Alana Lake
Strike (2025)
Marble
2. Deeqa Ismail
Rafah Is Gone (2026)
Woodcut on woodblock
Exhibition runs until 19th April
@deeqa_deeqa_deeqa #print #sculpture #contemporaryart
🌟 We are delighted to present the work of new PSSA Member Alana Lake
With a practice rooted in queer minimalism, Alana Lake (b. 1981, Tamworth, UK) works primarily with glass, ceramic, metal, concrete, and salvaged industrial fragments. Her work examines how contemporary addictions, desires, and repetitive behaviours shape culture and identity.
Lake completed postgraduate studies at the Royal Academy Schools in 2009. Recent exhibitions include Wanting / Yearning (2026), Broken Ecologies (2026), Humor My Love (2025–26), and The Omnipotence of Dream (2024). She has received a DYCP from ACE (2024/25), a Research Scholarship and the Project Space Award from the Senatsverwaltung für Kultur und Europa (2022, 2018), a NEUSTART Stipendium from the Deutscher Künstlerbund (2021), and the Dunoyer de Segonzac and Michael Moser Awards from the Royal Academy of Arts (2008, 2009).
Images
With Force, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)
Public Order, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)
Under Threat, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)
Strike, 2025 (Image courtesy of the artist)
Hidden Danger, 2026 (Image by Jules Lister)
Blood Drop, 2021 (Image courtesy of the artist)
Warning Sign, 2022 (Image courtesy of the artist)
your tongue a lit match, 2024 (Image courtesy of the artist)
Forbidden Fruit, 2024 (Image courtesy of the artist)
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It's a wrap.
Thank you to everybody @castlefieldgall for your help and support throughout Broken Ecologies.
A huge thank you to Deeqa Ismail, my co-artist, for collaborating on this project - lots learnt along the way, and I’m looking forward to what’s to come...
@deeqa_deeqa_deeqa
📸 @juleslisterphotography
#contemporaryart #sculpture #protest
We’re excited to share a new interview with Alana Lake (@alanalake.studio ), in conversation with Dawn Woolley (@dawnwoolleystudio ), now live on YAC.
In this honest and open exchange, Alana talks about the ideas behind their exhibition Wanting, Yearning at Haarlem Artspace (@haarlemartspace ), curated by Kristian Day (@kristiandaygallery ). They reflect on themes of desire, addiction and control, and how these play out through images, objects and personal experience, drawing attention to the push and pull between attraction and discomfort.
Read the full interview via the link in bio.
#alanalake #artistinterview #yacinterviews
Photos by the artist and Will Slater.
Alana Lake @alanalake.studio KELLY, 2023
Scorched paper
50 x 40 cm
Edition of 5. Each unique - Framed £300, Unframed £200
DM or email [email protected] to purchase.
Part of Wanting / Yearning, now on view at Haarlem Artspace @haarlemartspace
Open today 12-5
Haarlem Artspace Gallery The Red Lion Market Place Wirksworth DE4 4ET
#HaarlemArtspace #AlanaLake
Alana Lake @alanalake.studio HITS (You are the crack like haze in my brain), 2022
Hand Blown Glass
26 x 23.5 x 23 cm
Part of Wanting / Yearning, now on view at Haarlem Artspace @haarlemartspace
Open Friday – Sunday 12–5pm Until April 12
Haarlem Artspace Gallery The Red Lion Market Place Wirksworth DE4 4ET
#HaarlemArtspace #AlanaLake
Private tour: Broken Ecologies with artist @alanalake.studio 🖤
Join us at @castlefieldgall for a special evening exploring Broken Ecologies — the powerful new exhibition by Alana Lake and Deeqa Ismail.
Alana will lead us on a private, curated tour through themes of power, protest, memory, and survival. Expect large-scale print works, film, and sculpture — including a cast glass police truncheon, a marble baseball bat, and layered woodblock prints that carry stories across generations.
Against a backdrop of climate crisis and social unrest, the artists ask: What is the role of the artist in times of crisis?
📅 15 April 2026
⏰ 5–7pm
📍 Castlefield Gallery
🎟️ Link in bio to book
