South, London
C. Mae Bloom
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Hannah BarryC. Mae Bloom (b. 1992, Bath, UK) graduated from Royal College of Art Sculpture in 2025. She draws from long familial traditions of making and adjacent interests in craft and labour to define her experimental sculpture practice, a compelling constellation of ideas, interests and material inquiry. One aspect of her work comprises the collection, organisation and modification of found objects with signs of use or handmade by an unknown maker - quotidian objects of subjective value, objects of personal significance or nostalgic things. These are carefully situated alongside crafted objects which she makes working in wood, metal and textile, applying processes to each material, experimental modifications to traditional crafts. Placing no greater or less value on what she has made to what she has found, her highly articulate sculptures are an inspection of everyday material culture in our present era of innovation and object superabundance as much as they are acts of analogue wonder: entrancing, exquisite sequences of objects where the found and the handmade are one and complete. Her work asks us to consider on the one hand, if the ordinary can be extraordinary, if close enough attention is paid? On the other hand, it interrogates a question of value: what makes a thing special? Imaginative potential? Rarity? If that’s it, something broken or decayed should be more valuable as it’s singular, and something handmade worth the most of all.