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“My hands are always grubby with a kind of dirt that seems to be embedded deeper than my tattoos, and to be honest, I don't really mind it. I would much rather seeing my hands filthy hands from a days blacksmithing than sit inside in front of a computer. My practice is concerned with a connection to tools and processes, one soften labelled as craft, a distinction I like to question.
I have an aversion to modern technology and so allow my interest in folklore and stories skills from the past to inspire my material choices and making techniques. I like to blend bits I borrow from the past with things that I find in the present, a kind of historical mash-up. I use this to humorously draw attention to situations and tropes of modern society, like dating apps or binge drinking.”
Katie Louise Surridge (1985) previously spent three years training as a Blacksmith at the National School of Blacksmithing and now runs her own forge and metal workshop in Essex. She exhibited in the New Contemporaries and won the DARE Art Prize in 2022.
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