Lindsey Mendick United Kingdom, b. 1987
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Working primarily with ceramics, Lindsey Mendick (b.1987) frequently embeds her sculptures within elaborate multimedia installations that dwell on themes of vulnerability, mental health challenges, and societal discourse around women’s bodies. Her works are distinct for their blend of surreal humour, macabre horror and biting irony. Subverting traditional ceramic forms with often startling results, she has made ornate vessels seemingly ripped apart by creatures from within, vases in the form of dismembered feet and Toby jugs resembling her own severed head. Her large-scale installation Till Death Do Us Part, presents a series of domestic spaces – hallway, kitchen, living room, dining room and bathroom – that have become battlegrounds for warring factions of rodents, slugs and insects. Each of these miniature conflicts in clay is an absurd and at times disturbing representation of fights between human couples, inspired by the domestic tensions that Mendick experienced with her partner during the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Provenance
The artist
Carl Freedman Gallery