Tactile design

First and foremost, the hands. Of those who touch, but especially those that create. With her objects brimming with humanity, Lisa Stockham puts hands and body into contact. Here are her latest works at Mint in London.

The starting point is a motif, pattern, texture or strip of living skin torn away from an object of the past. Lisa sows the seed and it blooms, multiplies, loses control and from decorative detail turns into structure.

Objects that are like hatched fragments that come to life and seem to take a shape of their own. As in the series "Fragments", in which heaps of small cubes similar to the discards of a mosaic blossom in the form of a vase.

Matter and technique become inseparable, one the body, the other the genetic heritage. If art is the first and primary act of love towards materials, for Lisa this commitment begins with an object to touch, a surface to stroke and share with others, allowing it to come to life.



































Photos via lisastockham.co.uk | mintshop.co.uk