Live Ceramic Performance: Salt Remains

Working with raw materials sourced directly from evolving rural and urban landscapes, they explore identity and place through expanded material histories and hand-work. Raw wood, textile and natural pigments are elements that ground their individual practices in a material investigation of the object and textile surface as a critical space for their interaction with the natural. Bainbridge’s exploration of the living tree reflects a need to create a grounded presence though the physicality of the sculpted object in space, while Booth’s patchworked and painted canvases delve into the internal narratives of imagination, dreams and memory, as they originate in nature. Their collective use of natural and found material is central to their work as they turn to the concept of landscape as a critical site that can occupy the realm between thought and process. A place where cultural narratives and identity can be explored through the physical act of making and their psychological exploration of the changing natural world.