Liv Campton

@liv.campton

Liv Campton (b. 1999, Eora/Sydney) is an Australian multidisciplinary artist working across drawing, painting, sculpture and textiles. The experience of competitive rock-climbing for more than a decade and her profession as a seamstress and clothing designer have shaped her thinking about the body and materiality in her practice.

Her sculptures are surreal, grotesque, abstract figurative beings materialising affects from the internal body. The human body and its fluid edges serve as the focus in her work, considering how the skin as the border defining the limit of our body is penetrated by daily experience. This fragility of the boundary between internal and external is symbolised in the poetic meeting of elements as plaster engulfs fabric and wire protrudes to merge with tissue paper. Liv's process of sculpting involves a collaboration between the sensations in her body with materials that have fluid, malleable qualities which she layers to capture a sense of both being and becoming.

View the works: Building 5 Lower Mezzanine, Ground Floor Gallery