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Cellular Landform(s) (2024)
Cellular Landforms are sculptural works exploring essential form, material transformation, and the integration of sculpture within living ecosystems. Developed as totemic prototypes for living sculpture, the work operates as a dialogue between past, present, and speculative futures, situating sculptural form within ecological and architectural contexts
The project was created during Marie-Louise' artist residency at the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering (ACE), University of East London, and developed on the site of the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability. The residency provided a context for investigating how sculptural practice might respond to urban environments shaped by infrastructure, regeneration, and ecological responsibility
Cellular Landforms blend traditional sculptural methods with emerging digital technologies, exploring how physical, digital, and biological systems intersect. Working with clay-based reprocessed waste recipes and bioreceptive materials, the project examined how sculptural surfaces could support growth and interaction with more-than-human life. Casting processes were used alongside 3D modelling and 3D printing to test cellular forms across multiple materials and scales
Referencing the work of artists such as Agnes Denes and Constantin Brâncuși, the sculptures draw on histories of abstraction and ecological thinking while resisting monumentality. Rather than functioning as a static object, Cellular Landforms proposessculpture as an adaptive structures that could operate as a biodiversity-supporting element within the built environment, and as a site for considering care, repair, and ecological balance through material and form
Cellular Landforms are sculptural works exploring essential form, material transformation, and the integration of sculpture within living ecosystems. Developed as totemic prototypes for living sculpture, the work operates as a dialogue between past, present, and speculative futures, situating sculptural form within ecological and architectural contexts
The project was created during Marie-Louise' artist residency at the School of Architecture, Computing, and Engineering (ACE), University of East London, and developed on the site of the Royal Docks Centre for Sustainability. The residency provided a context for investigating how sculptural practice might respond to urban environments shaped by infrastructure, regeneration, and ecological responsibility
Cellular Landforms blend traditional sculptural methods with emerging digital technologies, exploring how physical, digital, and biological systems intersect. Working with clay-based reprocessed waste recipes and bioreceptive materials, the project examined how sculptural surfaces could support growth and interaction with more-than-human life. Casting processes were used alongside 3D modelling and 3D printing to test cellular forms across multiple materials and scales
Referencing the work of artists such as Agnes Denes and Constantin Brâncuși, the sculptures draw on histories of abstraction and ecological thinking while resisting monumentality. Rather than functioning as a static object, Cellular Landforms proposessculpture as an adaptive structures that could operate as a biodiversity-supporting element within the built environment, and as a site for considering care, repair, and ecological balance through material and form
Cellular Landform II (2024), 3D printed ceramic/fired clay
