An exhibition of work by artist Laura White using different forms of dough as a material for sculpture.
Daily Baroque is an exhibition of work by sculptor Laura White that continues her exploration of dough as a sculptural medium. Laura’s practice is driven by an interest in how chosen materials assert agency in the creation of a work. She often pushes them to the point of failure and then accepts, adapts and works with that failure.
Combining newly made pieces with older porcelain ones, the works in Daily Baroque are spread across the gallery on low platforms and seem to be captured in flux, perhaps the remnants of a larger work that has suffered a catastrophic failure and might continue to crumble.
There is dynamism and tension in this presentation, shaped by the dough, a material that remains mutable, that might shift and change during the course of the exhibition and which feels both like stone and like flesh with its delicate hues.
Drawing on Renaissance sculptor Bernini's belief in his ability to render stone to look as soft as dough, the work references Baroque marble statuary and has the same tactility.

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