Biomorphic Beings features artwork by Kiara Schaumkell, Rose Lasham, Sasha Ellis, and Saskia van Dijk. This exhibition explores the concept of bodily regeneration, informed by the biological form as a composition of reconstructed flesh, fluids, and cells. Through a combination of sculpture and painting the artists utilize the malleability of their mediums to reconstruct speculative bodies and delve into the cyclical nature of the human form.
By abstracting and reimagining the ways in which bodies adapt as physical forms, Biomorphic Beings expands on the transformative potential of the human form and its intricate relationship with its surrounding environment. As a collective, the artists reconsider the body through a grounded, proprioceptive lens. Examining an animalistic corporeal existence of growth, reproduction, excretion, ageing, decomposition, and regeneration.
Within these abstracted forms the artists project a sentient existence that transcends the confines of the body, allowing for a state of growth, decay, and spatial occupation.
Biomorphic Beings is the brainchild of these four recent graduates from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Witnessing the blossoming of their practices, they coalesced around the links in our practices. Namely, the bodily representation of human experiences, whether it is in relation to the environment, medical context, metaphysical or abstract.
Biomorphic Beings features artwork by Kiara Schaumkell, Rose Lasham, Sasha Ellis, and Saskia van Dijk. This exhibition explores the concept of bodily regeneration, informed by the biological form as a composition of reconstructed flesh, fluids, and cells. Through a combination of sculpture and painting the artists utilize the malleability of their mediums to reconstruct speculative bodies and delve into the cyclical nature of the human form.
By abstracting and reimagining the ways in which bodies adapt as physical forms, Biomorphic Beings expands on the transformative potential of the human form and its intricate relationship with its surrounding environment. As a collective, the artists reconsider the body through a grounded, proprioceptive lens. Examining an animalistic corporeal existence of growth, reproduction, excretion, ageing, decomposition, and regeneration.
Within these abstracted forms the artists project a sentient existence that transcends the confines of the body, allowing for a state of growth, decay, and spatial occupation.
Biomorphic Beings is the brainchild of these four recent graduates from Whitecliffe College of Art and Design. Witnessing the blossoming of their practices, they coalesced around the links in our practices. Namely, the bodily representation of human experiences, whether it is in relation to the environment, medical context, metaphysical or abstract.
