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Detail of the installation of Lauren Winstone's Silt series that is part of Things the Body Wants to Tell Us at Two Rooms. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. From Lauren Winstone's Silt series, 2023. Stoneware. Detail of the installation of Lauren Winstone's Seed series that is part of Things the Body Wants to Tell Us at Two Rooms. Lauren Winstone, Seed #4, 2023, porcelain, 220 mm diameter Lauren Winstone, Seed #11, 2023, porcelain, 250 mm diameter Lauren Winstone, Seed #10, 2023, porcelain, 250 mm diameter Lauren Winstone, Seed #1, 2023, porcelain, 150 mm diameter

There are the delicate, gently raised, approximately V-shaped, corrugated, six channelled formations with several different dimensions of liquid-conveying trough—their different widths and heights—and inside at their bottom edges, different residues of poured-on-to-then-pool rusty coloured residue. There is also the series of eleven cuttlefishbone-like forms (called Seed), each porcelain circle with sixteen radiating rippled segments traversed by faint incised lines and smudgy wispy glazes.

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Lauren Winstone
Things the Body Wants to Tell Us



15 March 2024 - 27 April 2024

In Two Rooms’ narrow upstairs gallery, Wellington-based artist, Lauren Winstone, presents her understated stoneware and porcelain forms on a long thin shelf. There are two types.

There are the delicate, gently raised, approximately V-shaped, corrugated, six channelled formations with several different dimensions of liquid-conveying trough—their different widths and heights—and inside at their bottom edges, different residues of poured-on-to-then-pool rusty coloured residue. These seven blue-tinged stoneware sculptures (called Silt) allude to sheets of corrugated roofing iron, as well as in nature to (for example) the rippled waves of accumulated sand granules, bobbing water droplets on the surface of a pond, or parallel linear formations of cloud stretching across the sky.

There is also the series of eleven cuttlefishbone-like forms (called Seed), each porcelain circle with sixteen radiating rippled segments traversed by faint incised lines and smudgy wispy glazes. A few contain small evocative blue circles on their surface, that look like mould or lichen formations.

All apparently to be meditatively pored over. Alluding possibly to a Taoist love of the elemental processes of nature and time.

Curiously Winstone sees these forms as coming from another direction, viewing them as symbols of repeatable bodily activities like breathing and walking, or perhaps the hidden regular muscular mechanics of digestion—and even mental processes like thinking and counting, cognitive systems that involve repetition. Mind and body are intimately connected.

Odd though it seems, one could say there is a very discreet hint of Picabia or Duchamp in all this, not of linked-up robotic components but of patterns of motion (maybe Tinguely is more appropriate?), be that action or idea codified into a detectable consequence where natural forms are separated away from the body—to interact further with more unhermetic systems such as descending liquid.

Winstone’s clever title, Things the Body Wants to Tell Us, makes us think about muscular repetition and the possible redirection of applied or involuntary energy. These are objects that don’t depict objects per se, but rather the symptomatic effects derived from how they are activated or energised. They describe a process.

John Hurrell

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