Laura Aldridge

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5. Spread A Little Sunshine

Chlorophytum comosum = "crowned green plant". The epithet refers to the plant's morphology - long, narrow leaves radiating from low clustering rosettes - but it seems appropriate that such a supremely successful domestic interloper should be metaphorically anointed. Chlorophytum comosum manifests chlorotic, wayward variegation, trickled down hippiedom, the girl-next door, bra-less cheesecloth, and Emanuelle's watery, Cali Fench tropicalism.

text extracted from the 'workshops has survived because we love each other' by Fiona Jardine
Above and left: 'the workshop has survived because we love each other'
installation view Glasgow Sculpture Studios
2007
For ‘the workshop has survived because we love each other’ the gallery will be transformed into a staged environment reminiscent of semi-external public areas; sculpture courts or landscaped communal gardens. Central to this will be three brutish, rock-like sculptures housing a variety of semi exotic overgrown plants. Holders of youthful exuberance and literally full of life these inhabitors of the gallery space will stand in direct conversation with a series of wall works featuring posters of the erstwhile boy band ‘Blazin Squad’. Appearing like the epitome of “troubled youf” they sit unimpressed on the top of a high rise block, the sky forming a panorama behind them.

A mass of knotted rope and wire obscures the view of the posters - seemingly a sculptural drawing, confused and matted, lost along the way or outgrowing itself. Hanging over this sculptural scene will be a five metre square wall hanging, an ambiguous and dominating presence suggesting the blank voice of a pervasive narrator or acting as a receding backdrop to the drama unfolding in front of it.
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Holders
mixed media
2007
Above:the workshop has survived because we love each other
installation view Glasgow Sculpture Studios
2007

top:We, the willing
led by the unknowing
are doing the impossible
for the ungrateful.
string and poster
2007

middle: We, the willing...
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