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Laura Aldridge's "Libretto-ah!" features a stack of textured textile pieces in earthy tones, punctuated by vibrant reds and purples, balanced atop slender wooden rods. The composition evokes a fragile, suspended structure that suggests balance and tension. The mixed-media approach blends sculptural and textile elements to create a three-dimensional collage. As with much of Aldridge's work, this piece challenges the line between interaction and observation, inviting viewers to engage with its tactile presence while maintaining a respectful distance, reflecting the artist's exploration of perception and experience. ...
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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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