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El Silk

Discipline:

Artist

Location:

Hastings

ABOUT:

Working across forms, Ell's practice reaches into sculpture, textiles, and everyday living - a breathing expanding body of work that defies the limits of studio or establishment.
Bringing focus sharply into the body and the systems that hold us in place - treading water with the weight of their pressure. Materials speak and they are listened to, chewed up, spat out, discarded and rebuilt through a never relenting process.
Forms emerge through their own bidding, resistant to belonging, and their maker, unsure as to whether to collapse or continue along to the beat of their machin-ic drum, compulsion, emerges alongside them.

WORKS:

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