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Louise Hapton
Gutted
30 x 8cm approx
'Gutted' is a fake found artefact from the dream realm my illustrations document. Ceramic and wire.
A Little Bit About The Artist
A Statement From The Artist
Louise Hapton is a French multimedia artist focusing on ceramics and performance around mental health, gender identity and sexuality. In her work, she challenges her inner child, a broken one - to create what she never dared to. Through her complex exploration of trauma as a neurodivergent woman, you might see a world you shall never escape from.
Tell us about a dream you've had.
I keep dreaming that I am rushing to get the Elisabeth line, which is nonsense. I never take it. Recent dreams also include eating huge amounts of sugar in all forms in my old studio flat and interrupting a royal wedding because I'm in love with the groom.
Except it begins again.
This time there is a wire suspended over the gap I am to cross, and I cling to it, dream-vision narrowed to my disembodied hands and the rope they clutch as I swing across the gulf.
There is no ending, only a leap of faith, an ejection, a tactical crash landing into the sea once again and the solid ground gives way to wave.​
What's your favourite movie or tv show?
​Miraculous Ladybug (the series)
​​​​What is your biggest influence on your practice?
​I would say my mental health. As a psychotic person, it's so busy in my brain that I don't even have time to look at other things!
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