Laura Abbott
(26 years old. Born in United Kingdom. Lives in: London)
Goldsmiths College
My current work concerns the relationship between the domestic object & its notions of memory, focusing on the subjects of decay, dereliction & the trace of the human touch. I explore how found, discarded objects & recyclable materials such as windows, doors and domestic textile matter including used clothing & bedding, can be re-used. My role within the work has aspects of the contemporary ragpicker, selecting suitable materials to recycle to create sculpture with. Each object I re-use has an emotional history carrying traces of a visible human interaction which provoke memories of a dark and derelict past. Hidden within the chaos of clothing are delicate hand and machine embroiderys depicting my own idea of lace, their twee floral beauty is in contrast to its darker & more deathly subject matter.
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Work of art I would like to make
I would like to create a new peice of work concerning the apsects of my current practise. Deriliction and death will be major themes within my work, as the future evolves the world also rolls backwards harking back to a dark past which will haunt our future. With the current issues of Westurn throw away culture, I feel that as goods become more expensive that society will have to change their attitude to lifestyle and start to live in a way which is influenced by the past. I will create a sculpture or installation concerning these issues. Which will aim to provoke a memory of a derilict past and challenge the way in which people look at the objects in which I choose to display and embroider on to. The work will question how unoticed the state of Westurn culture is today and in the future. |
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My Artworks (6)
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