Lauren Downton explores hybridity as a means of re-imagining what it means to be human and redefining how we interrelate with nature – how we perceive its boundaries and understand its enmeshment with society. Encompassing a series of ceramic sculptures, casts of organs, branches, leaves, antlers, plastics, and human debris are merged with found rubbish and natural materials such as whiskers and fleece. Exploring notions of the “cast off” and excess, these hybrid fusions examine the complex entanglements between production and consumption in contemporary society, and the natural environment.

Lauren Downton, Amalgam (series), 2024, porcelain and found rubbish. Courtesy the artist and Post Office Projects Gallery + Studio, South Australia
Post Office Projects Gallery + Studio
2 October to 2 November 2024
South Australia