Katrin Spranger is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, wearable objects, and performance. Her practice engages with processes of material transformation, bringing substances such as crude oil, honey, plastic, and industrial by-products into conditions of contact, accumulation, and decay.
Through techniques including electroforming, melting, and organic decomposition, materials are activated as unstable agents that leak, solidify, erode, and persist. Many of these substances carry ecological and industrial histories that remain present in their behaviour rather than being represented separately.
Rather than remaining external, materials come into direct contact with the body, embedding, staining, and reshaping its boundaries. Wearable elements function as interfaces through which these processes unfold over time, activated through movement, duration, and degradation.
Recent works extend this focus toward states of decomposition and afterlife, tracing how matter breaks down, remains, or reconfigures. Across different scales, the work attends to unstable conditions where distinctions between organic and synthetic, inside and outside, begin to dissolve.
Photo by Alun Callender.
