Current portfolio of Lou Baker's art, exhibitions and events, 2022
Artist statement: It’s a question of balance. The darker side of Lou Baker’s sculptural practice is balanced by a brighter side of social engagement as she makes public things that are normally private. Sensory, immersive, and often participatory, her works are provocations- to thought, conversation and, sometimes, action.
Stereotypically, hand-knitting and stitch are functional, perfect and finished, connected with garments, domesticity, comfort and the body. Lou Baker’s work subverts these expectations. It’s sculptural, sloppy craft; unfinished, unravelling. Site-responsive, it’s shapeshifting, formlessness and flexible; immersive, alluring, yet somehow, also, uncanny. Its soft impermanence and associated femininities remind us of our mortality.
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