Lasmin Salmon
Biography / Artist statement
Lasmin Salmon is a mixed-media artist with a bold and individual style. She creates sewn sculptures that are combined into larger artworks and installations with an unconventional but ordered feel. Lasmin’s art pieces begin as a series of smaller pieces that she later combines. She explores several ideas until settling on a style she feels connected with, playing with materials, bending and twisting fabrics until the right shape is created. Once she finds her ideal prototype she then recreates it in a variety of materials, meticulously constructing each piece with carefully selected fabrics, pulling them through her fingers to ensure they are the right texture, pattern and weight. Lasmin worked with textile artist Celia Pym to create a collaborative piece for the Southbank Centre’s “Festival of Love” in 2014 and in 2016 her “Rug” was selected for Outside In and Craftspace’s touring exhibition “Radical Craft”. For ActionSpace’s ‘Assembled Lines” exhibition at Studio RCA for Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2019, Lasmin showed an installation piece that included photographs of her textile shapes projected back onto the physical pieces, creating an intriguing dichotomy between the digital and the real.
Associated with: ActionSpace