Email:duttonlaura@hotmail.com

Website:https://lauraduttonfineartuk.artweb.com

Region:South West England

Technique:Casting, Kiln work

Occupation:Artist, Educator

Discipline:Fine art, Sculptural

Areas of Interest:Education, Exhibition, Networking

Product:Fine Art, Sculpture

Country:United Kingdom

County:Gloucestershire




@duttonlaura2020

Laura Dutton

I am an artist and art teacher currently working with glass. I have always been interested in the connection and tension between art and science and my work explores ideas around biological cycles, processes, disruptions and anomalies. I use glass casting and model making techniques and find and collect natural forms while out walking. I love nothing better than being in the woods hunting for natural treasures to use in my work.

My recent sculptures are organic in nature. They are inspired by and made from a range of sometimes strange and always wonderful natural objects and organisms. I have a particular love for fungi and I use them in an allegorical way. For me they symbolise the fragility of ecological systems and organisms in a state of crisis, as well as the beauty and complexity of the natural world. Glass is the most magical, ethereal and sublime material and it captures something of the mystery and wonder of the world and life around us. My pieces are sometimes anthropomorphic and playful, at other times abstract and emotionally charged. Very often I explore ideas around corporeality, bodily functions and human health in relation to the health of the planet, life cycles, ageing, growth and decay.

'Geastrum'

Reishi

Giant polypore, Meripilus giganteus

Strobili

Steely Pholiota (detail)

Sunrise Waxcaps

Lateral

Moulage Bolete

Steely Pholiota