A “snail fountain” by artist Laura Aldridge will probably be unveiled at Jupiter Artland when it opens on Saturday.
The artist has created an area the place “materiality would possibly soak up or encourage sure emotions” in her new set up LAWNMOWER.
The colorful work and sensual texture are mixed with handmade and collage. There are richly glazed ceramics, components sculpted in mod roc and fishing floats all illuminated amongst folds of cloth.
There can even be a sequence of latest video works created by Aldridge in collaboration with different artists and musicians from her inventive group.
Snails are an vital a part of the ecosystem and the brand new work commissioned by Jupiter Artland encompasses a sequence of stacked snail shells in vivid colors exterior the Ballroom with a working fountain. It is a fee for the Edinburgh Artwork Pageant which runs in August.
Jupiter Artland will probably be open seven days every week till 29 September. The works featured embrace these by Alec Finlay, Andy Goldsworthy, Anish Kapoor, Antony Gormley, Anya Gallaccio, Charles Jencks, Christian Boltanski, Cornelia Parker, Helen Chadwick, Henry Fortress, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Joana Vasconcelos, Laura Ford, Marc Quinn, Nathan Coley, Nicolas Celebration, Pablo Bronstein, Peter Liversidge, Lindsey Mendick, Phyllida Barlow, Rachel Maclean, Sara Barker, Shane Waltener, Tania Kovats, and Tracey Emin.
Laura Aldridge lives in Glasgow and works in Paisley. Latest solo exhibitions embrace sumVIGOUR, Cample Line, Cample (2021); The Outdoors is Inside Every little thing We Make – Laura Aldridge, Leanne Ross, Judith Scott, Kendall Koppe, Glasgow (2021); fromKStoyou, Kunsthalle Stavanger, Norway (2020–2021); Oblique Daylight – Laura Aldridge and James Rigler, New Gallery, London, (2018); Plant Surroundings of the World, Inverleith Home, Edinburgh (2017); Go Girl Go!, British Council in Nigeria Season, Abuja, Nigeria (2016); Inside All My Actions, Koppe Astner, Glasgow (2016); One to a different, one-to-one, Passerelle, Centre d‘artwork contemporain, Brest (2015); California wow!, Tramway, Glasgow (2015) and Laura Aldridge, Studio Voltaire, London (2011). Aldridge is a founding member of Sculpture Home, Paisley, run by a bunch of artists with a ardour for sculpture and social inclusion, they convey collectively skilled artists and members of the group, widening entry to the visible arts.
www.jupiterartland.org
PHOTO Neil Hanna
PHOTO Neil Hanna
PHOTO Neil Hanna
PHOTO Neil Hanna
PHOTO Neil Hanna
The artist photographed within the extraordinary set up LAWNMOWER
PHOTO Neil Hanna
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