Known primarily for her hybrid felt and wool sculptures, Luanne Martineau belongs to a generation of artists who use traditional craft techniques and materials to produce critically engaged and formally astonishing artworks. Martineau’s labour-intensive felt sculptures, virtually impossible to describe in all their visual and physical complexity, produce an experience that oscillates between fascination and repulsion, between the macroscopic and the microscopic. This exhibition presents a dozen recent works, including an artist’s book, felt sculptures, drawings and what Martineau calls “drulptures” – a unique combination of the two latter disciplines.
