Lorna Phillips’ research-based practice excavates traces of material culture and social history by journeying into the biographies of the land. Acts of collecting and re-distributing are led by an urge to discover the artist’s surroundings. The material of clay provides the path into the landscape and what it holds. Lorna intends to delve into the stories that certain places hold; within their communities and their long histories, and within the land itself, its formation. These stories are discovered through archaeology, geology and anthropology. The sourcing of the materials that form the works, the physical journeys involved in this process are key to the artist’s practice. Lorna aims to explore connections between people and place, asking questions of inheritance, foundations and our roles in our beginnings and our
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