Katrin Spranger is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, sculptural painting, contemporary jewellery, performance and moving image. Her practice explores the changing relationships between humans, animals, materials and the environment, transforming what is ordinarily avoided or rejected into objects of curiosity and fascination.

Working with materials such as crude oil, human hair, taxidermy parts, animal matter and discarded plastic, she challenges conventional perceptions of beauty, value and desirability. From jewellery made of crude oil that melts against the skin to sculptural works addressing water scarcity and pollution, her practice brings materials associated with contamination, decay and discomfort into unexpected and sometimes intimate encounters with the body. Her work moves between attraction and repulsion, allowing beauty and unease to coexist.

More recently, her practice has turned towards the ways synthetic materials infiltrate the natural world and become entangled with living organisms. Through speculative hybrid forms that merge human, animal, organic and artificial matter, she questions established distinctions between species, bodies and materials. Rather than illustrating environmental concerns directly, her work invites speculation about possible futures in which familiar definitions of nature and identity become increasingly uncertain.

Photo by Alun Callender.