Katrin Spranger Studio

Fine Art

About

Katrin Spranger is London-based artist working across sculpture, sculptural painting and performance. Her practice explores shifting relationships between humans, animals, materials and the environment, creating hybrid forms in which the boundaries between organic and synthetic matter become uncertain.

Working with materials including human hair, animal matter, discarded plastic, crude oil, metals and minerals, Spranger uses processes of accumulation, transformation and decay to create works that move between the bodily, the familiar and the strange.

Alongside her artistic practice, Spranger is co-founder and director of K2 Academy of Contemporary Jewellery, an independent school based at Cockpit supporting experimental approaches to jewellery and material practice.

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Location

Bloomsbury

  • “Large sculptural wall painting with a dark, textured surface combining human hair, deer taxidermy, plastic waste and reflective materials.”
  • Large sculptural wall painting with a dark, textured surface combining human hair, deer taxidermy, plastic waste and reflective materials.
  • Performance Still from The Video The Shedding
  • Suspended sculptural form made from discarded plastic bottles and translucent synthetic material, with reflective silver surfaces.”
““I’m interested in the moment when a material stops being what we think it is and begins to suggest something unfamiliar.””

Katrin Spranger Studio

Process

Katrin’s practice is driven by experimentation with materials and processes. She works intuitively, allowing the physical behaviour of materials to influence the direction of a work rather than beginning with a predetermined form.

Traditional techniques such as casting, electroforming and metalwork sit alongside processes of melting, layering, staining, crystallisation and material accumulation. Found and discarded materials are frequently dismantled and transformed, while human hair, animal matter, plastics, metals and minerals are brought into unexpected relationships.

Through repeated processes of making, breaking down and reforming, familiar materials become increasingly difficult to identify. This instability is central to Spranger’s practice, allowing forms to emerge that appear simultaneously bodily, synthetic and organic.

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  • workshops
  • commissions
  • workshops

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