Open Studio: Nuala Torp

The Open Studios exhibition project explores the pivotal importance of space and place relations between a body of work and its origin of making. Evolved from Lillie's research interests, this student-led project examines the performative aspects of a 'studio' setting and alternative productions of diverse process-led practices within a site-specific context.

Open Studios merges a hybrid of the studio and the gallery, blurring lines uniting showcased contemporary art and unseen moments intimately shared between an artist and their creative environment.

Nuala Torp is a designer and maker whose work exists to distract from the formality of the everyday. Seeking lightness and the delighted sense of curiosity that we shared as children, Torp specialises in glass and ceramics, developing playful processes that question the perceived. Working instinctively, and often spontaneously to find a balance between materials, colour, and form, her methodology creates a unique and distinctive visual language. Torp has developed an automated method of extruding, which allows her to playfully draw with porcelain, using one continuous line. Hand-blown glass components are made in response to each extruded piece.

Visiting the gallery, the audience can watch and interact as the artist creates in situation, surrounded by the experimental, the incomplete, and the final.

For the exhibition handout click here.