Katrin Spranger is a London-based artist working across sculpture, sculptural painting and performance. Her work examines the changing relationship between humans, animals, materials and the environment, questioning how human impact and material transformation reshape the boundaries between them.

These concerns are explored through materials including crude oil, human hair, animal matter and discarded plastic, which are altered and combined through processes including casting, assemblage and electroforming. Materials and forms associated with waste, contamination and decay are made unfamiliar, inviting curiosity towards what is avoided, overlooked or discarded.

The body has long been a site of material interaction within her practice. Through performance and wearable sculpture, materials come into contact with the body, leaving traces behind. In recent works, the body becomes increasingly uncertain, taking on hybrid forms that move between human, animal, organic and synthetic matter.

Photo by Alun Callender.