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Laura Aldridge's "NINE" is a vibrant textile work featuring a dynamic composition of spherical forms in earthy yellows and greens, layered over textured materials with flowing shapes. The sculpture-like piece blends organic textures and abstract forms, creating a visual balance between structure and chaos within the textile medium. Aldridge's style merges collage techniques in three dimensions, echoing her exploration of dualities such as subjectivity and objectivity. This piece reflects her intent to engage viewers in a sensory experience, challenging them with contrasts of attraction and repulsion, and inviting interaction while imposing distance. ...
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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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