Losing Touch​ is an exhibition that brings together artists Alice Hartley, Lily German and Sebastian Sochan. Through sculpture, performance, textiles and print, these artists each investigate materiality and pursue processes that transform the materials that they use. We live in an increasingly non-tangible world that is changing the way we perceive and interact with materials and one another. The virus has affected our usual means of communication, forcing us to go beyond our habits in order to reimagine space and activate other senses to adjust to the “new normal”. ​Losing Touch​ will investigate these artists evolving and altered practices as we return to a different world and negotiate a new sensorial landscape.

Alice Hartley paints quickly and instinctively with momentum and vigour to create work that sits somewhere between painting and printmaking, the voice is urgent and the mark is sure. ​Lily German constructs ceramic sculptures that are activated through vocal performance which explores the vulnerability and physicality of the voice and wet clay. Sebastian Sochan’s instinctual sculptural works explore the intimacy, closeness and complexity of queer relationships through the emotive and humble quality of materials.

A series of workshops, performance and events exploring different materials and making processes will run alongside the exhibition.

https://research.gold.ac.uk/id/eprint/33914