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Dawn Stringer creates sculptures and installations using everyday objects that get overlooked within our lives. The artist creates floor-based work where small plastic objects mutate and invade the space, and creates tall structures, where plastic baskets balance on top of clothes pegs; these pieces can resemble futuristic cities. She finds a hidden potential within objects and arranges them without using any permanent fixings, to invest a change of state and form. For example, slotting a set of dominos into the slits of a washing basket. The sculptures are predominantly made of primary colours, due to the manufactured colour of the objects.

The work explores readymade elements and turns the common object into works that examine the discourse between structure and balance, site and placement, function and decoration by transforming functional objects into useless arrangements. The objects create their own temporary structure.