Solo Exhibition at Koppe Aster Gallery, Glasgow
Koppe Astner is delighted to present Inside all my activities, Laura Aldridge’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. Aldridge pursues her longstanding interest and engagement with sculpture as an immersive, sensory driven experience which she explores via photography, ceramics, textiles and found materials. Inside all my activities begins upon entering the gallery corridor. Soft underfoot, we adjust our stride— slowing down, carefully placing a one foot in front of the other, manoeuvring the surface of Display Scape #5. Each step leaves a mark, making every visitors experience a part of the immersive and evolving landscape Aldridge has constructed.
The exhibition marks the culmination of Aldridge’s residencies at Cove Park, Argyl and Bute. During her stays in these rural locations, Aldridge sourced plants, flowers, nails, hairpins and keys and implemented an eco dye process to produce fabrics in array of explosive prints which celebrate the Scottish summer flora and the found objects of it’s landscapes. Water conditions, temperature fluctuations, chlorophil, and metals are some of the many controlled and uncontrolled variables which directly affect the outcome of the prints. which yield unpredictable results
Evolution and progression play a crucial role in the exhibition—the theatre of assembly and rituals of the printing process are unseen yet implied acts that set a stage, tone and mood for the viewer. Aldridge embraces the sentiments of the Susan Hiller quote, “ A lot of what we deny when we’re making work is this process of change… since actually everything is changing all the time as we all know.’, presenting us with sculptures that exist with and as a result of a certain performance.
The artist, the initial performer, passes her engagement with material on to the viewer, encouraging a physical, multi-sensory and corporeal experience that is characteristic of Aldridge’s practice.
