LONDON.- Lee Maelzer makes paintings about the human need to record events and places and the visual languages and signifiers that connect the evidence. For her first solo exhibition at Poppy Sebire, Maelzer will show new works that further develop her fascination for the mediated image; whether that held in the mind, the camera, or the physical archive. The London-based artist is known for her odd, beautiful and technically adept means of describing facets of the everyday in paint. And, while Maelzer remains interested in the wider influence of history, pop culture and technology on the collective memory, this body of work brings one back down to the prosaic/profound experience of flipping through a pile of photographs. Photography has become an increasingly important part of Maelzer’s working process. Similarly to Peter Doig or Wilhelm Sasnal, she is not interested in rendering the real exactly, rather