Polly Black is a multidisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation,
alongside photography and other forms of documentation. Her practice explores
(m)otherhood, care, labour, the body and overlooked female experiences, drawing
on lived experience and feminist perspectives. Working with domestic and industrial
materials, found objects and everyday forms, she uses materially led processes to
investigate how personal experiences connect with wider social structures.
During her residency at Back Lane West, Polly will develop practical research arising
from her current practice-as-research project at Falmouth University, exploring what
it means to be changed by a household in which midlife and adolescence unfold
together.
Working beyond the domestic setting that has shaped this research, she will explore
how existing and emerging sculptural forms translate into different spaces and
contexts. Through making, testing and reflection, she hopes to discover what
changes, what remains, and what new possibilities emerge when the work is
removed from the environment that first informed it.

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