Alana Lake

Untitled (From the series With Force), 2026
Glass
Dimensions variable

Made with millimeter precision these truncheons are modelled on batons in the Bury Museum and Sculpture Centre archive. They reflect on the expansion of authoritarian policing, specifically The Public Order Act 2023 which introduced new offences, widened stop-and-search powers, and established Serious Disruption Prevention Orders (SDPOs).

Strike, 2025
Marble
84 x 10 x 5 cm

Work contemplates pervasive violence and draws from Hal Foster’s Death in America (October, Winter 1996), which reexamines Andy Warhol’s Death and Disaster series through the lens of traumatic realism, a mode that acknowledges the persistent presence of death, shock, and catastrophe in public life. By rendering the baseball bat in marble, the work aligns contemporary violence with the material language of classical sculpture.

Originally funded by ARTCRY.

Public Order, 2026
Found object
30 x 39 x 30 cm

The work reflects on shifting boundaries around the right to assemble and protest in the UK.

Under Threat, 2026
Brass Hornady .50 Browning Machine Gun (BMG) Case
14 x 2 x 2 cm

Positioned so that it juts out of the wall at head height, Under Threat speaks to violence, and the persistent threats of war within current geopolitics. 

Wood, Glass, and Silicone

72 x 4 x 11 cm, 85 x 6 x 11 cm, 101 x 10 x 11 cm

Image courtesy of the artist

2021

Handblown glass

Dimensions vary

Warning Signs, 2020

Hand blown glass

36 X 33.5 X 28 cm

(from the series Pleasure Drive)

The Volcano Lover, 2022

Glass

Black and Blue, 2020

Cast Glass, hand polished

22 x 35.5 x 24 cm

(from the series Pleasure Drive)

Installation view frontviews

http://www.frontviews.de

HITS (You are the crack like haze in my brain), 2022

Hand blown glass

https://www.berlinartlink.com/2022/03/25/crush-feld-haus-group-exhibition-review/

Smokin’

2020

Hand blown glass and metal

40 x 17 x 15.5 cm

(from the series Pleasure Drive)

My Mistake

2018

Hand blown glass bike seat

36 x 25 x 7 cm

(from the series Pleasure Drive)

W00086399 / W00086431 / W00086402

26.5cm x 29cm
Archival Digital Print (framed)
1 of 5
2014 

The Flag of Bonnie Tyler

Printed Flag & White Powder Coated Aluminium Flagpole
200cm x 92.5cm x 150cm
2013
 

Once upon a time I was falling in love
But now I'm only falling apart
There's nothing I can do
A total eclipse of the heart
Once upon a time there was light in my life
But now there's only love in the dark
Nothing I can say
A total eclipse of the heart

Total Eclipse Of The Heart Lyrics