Lana Locke

A Feral Plot (Making Sculpture and Other Strategies for Survival) is a new project by Lana Locke based on action research in response to the climate emergency in the field of sculpture.

The residency will provide time and space for Lana explore hers and other artists’ diverse lived experiences and challenges of making sculpture in the climate crisis. Through making, discussion and sharing, possibilities will be developed to uncover artists’ material agency in an age of climate emergency. Lana will look to model more sustainable practice, whilst reclaiming the social and cultural value of sculpture’s material embodiment.

At the start of the residency she will launch a collaborative publication of the same name bringing her work into dialogue with Melanie Jackson, artist and convenor of The Poorhouse Reading Rooms.

Between May–September, following regional research at the Poor House Reading Rooms, Coles Casting in Dorset and the Henry Moore Institute in Leeds, Lana and will bring her research to Camberwell. She will transform the space into an open studio to experiment, explore and develop public-facing activities for local communities to engage. This will include workshops with sustainable materials and opening up clay-station play sessions for local families.