Lauren Royall
Fragile and translucent materials express a need for soft marks and handling. Whilst working with materials, I consider subtle forms of pressure and the grey area of consent, and what it means to push the boundaries of materials, and how this reflects human intimacy/violence.
Intrigued by how far we can deconstruct binaries, I work with materials in a tactile way that dances between tenderness and violence. My work is perhaps visually simultaneously enticing and repulsive. Somewhat like meat flesh. Using both a fleshy and earth-like colour palette, I am interested in how the colour red psychologically heightens both hunger and desire, and how the two intertwine.
I am interested in how consent is intrinsic to interactions and relations between body, surface, land and the intangible. As consent requires reciprocity, I treat engagements with materials as something more like a dialogue.
Collecting things that find me as material and surface, the tension between myself and these objects contemplates which is more alive. Are we even distinguishable?
Born in 2002 and based in Birmingham, UK.
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