Katrin Spranger is a London-based multidisciplinary artist working across sculpture, painting, wearable objects and performance. Her practice is driven by a fascination with material transformation — how substances behave when combined and manipulated, and the unfamiliar forms that can emerge.

Working with materials including crude oil, human hair, animal matter and discarded plastic, Spranger alters and combines substances through processes including copper electroforming, resin casting and assemblage. Materials associated with waste, contamination and decay are made unfamiliar, inviting curiosity towards things more commonly discarded, avoided or overlooked.

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

The work considers consumption, waste and the ways human-made materials accumulate, persist and become entangled with bodies and environments.

Photo by Alun Callender.