Laura Aldridge
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Laura Aldridge's work, "I'll tell you about it, because I am here and you are distant," features a vivid palette of tie-dye colors framing a photographic scene of hands engaged in a tactile act. The piece combines fabric and photographic elements, highlighting a fusion of texture and imagery. It embraces a mixed-media approach, blending two-dimensional and three-dimensional collage-like qualities. Aldridge's work challenges the boundaries of engagement, inviting viewers to balance sensory intuition with observational distance, reflecting her exploration of participation and sensory reaction. ...
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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. ...
Laura Aldridge: Artworks
Founded in 2011, Kendall Koppe is a Glasgow-based gallery committed to championing under-represented voices in contemporary art, with a particular focus on queer and female artists. The gallery fosters a space where personal narratives intersect with broader cultural, historical, and social contexts, while also advocating for Scotland’s role in the international visual arts landscape.