Lorna Pridmore
Lorna Pridmore is an artist working from a studio at Butley Mills Studios, at the head of Butley Creek on the Suffolk coast. She makes sculpture and wall works, which her own site divides into eight bodies of work by material: natural textiles, synthetic textiles, natural objects and found objects, in each case as sculpture and as work for the wall.
She has exhibited in London and in Leeds.
Artist Statement
My artwork centres on transforming found objects and materials into new forms that hover between the beautiful and the unsettling. Coaxing new life from inconsequential 'stuff' - drawing pins, nails, cling film, hair grips, natural and synthetic fibres - I elevate these commonly ignored materials to question what we habitually deem to be without value.
Through simple actions such as wrapping, clipping, binding, pulling, and pinning, an unassuming thing is reconfigured into something entirely different. This focus on the commonplace encourages a reconsideration of both its physical and philosophical significance.
Without relying on added fixings or external supports, the object is sustained by its own physical capacity. Repetitive construction and deconstruction reveal the points of least resistance between artist and material - the moment where shapeshifting occurs and the everyday becomes the extraordinary.
I have a deep interest in how simple physical actions develop a haptic relationship with an object that, en masse, evolves into a 'thing in itself'. Through these repetitive interactions, I strip the everyday of its utility to reveal a raw, autonomous materiality and new significations.