Layla Khoo North Yorkshire, United Kingdom
I am a multimedia 3D artist, specialising in ceramics. My work is responsive – responding to ideas, events or collections of objects. My work develops from this initial response, considering how this can be represented in a contemporary way within the context of my material practice. I am inspired by objects and work that can evoke a response and curiosity in the viewer.
I often choose to create my work in ceramic for it’s broad range of historical connotations, from everyday tableware, to satire and sculpture. Ceramic objects have a familiarity to them – I find it interesting to expand on that; to bring a new or surprising face to an everyday material. I enjoy the versatility of the material, using clay in it’s plastic form to sculpt and build, or in it’s liquid form to cast objects from moulds. I enjoy the challenge of mould making, and taking an industrial process deigned to make multiples of identical objects, and distorting this process by adding creative individuality.
Artwork
Insulting, Ceramic, 2017
Submerged , Porcelain, mixed media, 2016
Flying Free, Porcelain , 2017, 240
Broken Birds, Porcelain, mixed media, 2016, 300
Projects and exhibitions
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Producing Production07/09/2018 — 09/09/2018 Artist assistant to Clare Twomey during public participatory event creating embroidered banners |
TATE Exchange, Tate Modern, London | Details |
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Art and Liberation03/09/2018 — 19/09/2018 Exhibition of works considering issues around mental health |
The Holy Biscuit, Newcastle | Details |
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Ongoing representation11/02/2018 — 29/09/2018 Ongoing representation and exhibition of works |
Silson Contemporary Gallery, Harrogate | Details |
Art&19/10/2017 — 22/10/2017 Installation artist with participatory demonstrations |
York Racecourse, York | Details | |
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Factory: The Seen and The Unseen28/09/2017 — 08/10/2017 "Factory Manager" For Clare Twomey's public participatory event creating a ceramics "factory" in the Tate Exchange |
TATE Exchange, Tate Modern, London | Details |
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Ongoing representation31/07/2017 — 29/09/2018 Ongoing representation and exhibit |
Bils & Rye, Kirkbymoorside | Details |
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In The Making11/06/2017 — 17/06/2017 Final Degree Show |
York St John's University, York | Details |
We Made Something of This03/04/2017 — 30/09/2017 Limited edition prints of 3D contemporary art |
According To McGee, York | Details | |
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Humanity is in our hands15/11/2015 — 27/01/2016 Artist assistant to Clare Twomey in the production and distribution of 2000 porcelain spoons on Holocaust Memorial Day |
Westminster Bridge, London | Details |
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Manifest: 10,000 hours09/02/2015 — 04/06/2017 Artist assistant to Clare Twomey during participatory workshops and installation of the work |
CoCA, York Art Gallery, York | Details |