Daisy Collingridge, WALKING WITH CLIVE

At the core of Daisy Collingridge’s practice is an exploration and celebration of the human form, working across sculpture, photography and performance, she delves into its anatomical properties with quilted flesh and limbs, harnessing a tactile and haptic quality of softness and colour. Growing up in a medical family, the body and its workings were considered matter of fact, In the hands of Collingridge, they became matter of fiction and imagination as she became fascinated with giving form to what lies inside.  

For the first time, the artist is releasing her wearable sculptures from the domestic settings where she creates photographic portraits of them alone or in groups.  Empowered by their exaggerated, genderless fleshiness, they will take to the coastline of Morecambe Bay as part of Deco Publique and theCOLAB’s Coastal Commissioning Programme.  Collingridge took her BA in Fashion Design from Central St Martin’s College of Art in 2014 and was the Sarabande Foundation Artist in Residence from 2020 – 22.  She has exhibited widely including at TJ Boulting, British Textile Biennial and internationally at Textiel Museum, Tilberg, Netherlands, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, USA.

Elizabeth Clough, HARBINGER

Barrow-born and Morecambe-based Elizabeth Clough invites you to the first showing of her year-long project in creative collaboration Deco Publique, theCOLAB and Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts.

A lament for birdsong, HARBINGER invites audiences to listen deeply to the present and the absent.

“Bringing together sound, sculpture and drawing for the first time in my practice, the show explores my love and respect for birds and their song, alongside my grief and anger around the decline in their populations and factors driving them. We live our lives among the birds and we experience them every time we are outside. We share our food and our environments. We are intertwined. What happens to the birds is happening to us.” Elizabeth Clough

Taking place as part of the Coastal Commissions development, is a collaborative research project with academics and researchers at Lancaster Institute for Contemporary Arts. This year-long project, supported by the Arts & Humanities Research Council will feature three artistic commissions in 2025. The first sees Elizabeth Clough bring together her work in sculpture, sound and drawing for the first time. The second commission will be promoted through an open call launching in April 2025.