Katie Louise Surridge

I am primarily interested in sculpture. My work more often than not includes some if not all found materials. Travelling is a huge passion of mine, be it round London, or further a field, it is these trips which provide me with exciting structural ideas and the chance to collect disowned, often overlooked objects. These found objects are later rearranged to construct large structural forms, embellished with mini narratives. Hence the work often involves some activity outside to obtain material or to make-work, and so the sculptures I make become reflective of my lifestyle and environment around me.

I enjoy focusing on discarded materials caught between production and decomposition. Finding an aesthetic in these disposed of unloved items, is important to me. The proximity of unexpected items next to one another and the exciting relationships and juxtapositions of these new orders is something integral to my work. I have a child like wonder for the things I find, and freely collect, organise and meticulously sort through my finds till assemblages come together and feel intuitively right. Assemblages of found and manufactured miscellanea develop narrative relations. Parts collected or made are also reused in new works and take on ...

The Slade school of art, london, GB, sculpture,