As a member of the Edinburgh Sculpture Workshop we were invited to propose an installation of new work for their Hawthornvale Space. ‘State of Liminal was selected and shown from February-May 2022! This project was the first large scale exploration of sculptural rocks I have created and I love the impact and placement of them on black sand. They have been constructed using a wood and wire frame with plaster skin and hand painted with rock colour and texture. The digital image is printed onto aluminium and embedded into rock itself.
State of Liminal is a new commission from Katie Hallam. The installation is an amalgamation of the artist’s key interests, the physicality of ancient geology and the dematerialised aesthetics of contemporary technology. The trompe l’oeil of the quarried rock sculptures are combined with digitally printed photography to create an incongruous synthesis of techno-organic materials, an alien landscape of futurist standing stones that calls into question the sutainability of the contemporary world's technological fixations.
The quarry like space, materials, textures and colours challenge the viewer's perception of object and landscape. These works allow the opportunity to open up conversations about the increase and impact digital detritus, wasted data and technology minerals are having directly on the earth’s surface.