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Laura Aldridge's "Collecting as a Practice" features a vibrant interplay of colors, with bold pinks and oranges framing a complex collage of textures and forms. The artwork combines photographic elements with layered textiles, abstract shapes, and floral motifs, creating a dynamic visual experience. This piece exemplifies a hybrid style, merging photography with three-dimensional collage techniques. Aldridge's intention is to explore the boundary between perception and interaction, inviting viewers to engage with their sensory responses while confronting limitations. ...
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Laura Aldridge works with a broad range of media; photography, textiles, ceramics, glass and with processes such as printing, casting and dyeing. Aldridge’s body of work moves freely between wall-based reliefs and sculptural assemblages or installations, playing on the abilities of ‘collage’ to operate in two and three-dimensions. Aldridge’s work often explores the double-bind of subjectivity and objectivity, making versus experiencing, viewing versus participating, attraction versus repulsion. Her work invites an impulsive response that is interrupted by barriers that limit a physical engagement with the work itself. At this intersection Aldridge allows the intuitive and the sensory to unfold - giving weight to a viewers own sensory reaction and experience. ...
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