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We are happy to announce that the 29th recipient of The Working Class Creatives Grant is Urte Janus. Urte is an artist based in London, working in sculpture, installations, writing and video. We loved the way she spoke about her work: the soupy blend of fiction and real life, the world the work lives in, the processes, the shapes. It made it feel full of actual imagination, full of magic too maybe. That felt rare and special and we are excited to be able to support her work, so thank you to our funders Creative Debuts for allowing us to do so!
BIO: Urte Janus is an artist from Lithuania currently living in London. She explores the corporeal relationships between bodies and their environments in sculptural installations, writing and video work. After initially gaining a degree in photography, she taught herself sculpture and video making.
Material exploration plays a vital role in Urte’s practice. She uses chemistry to develop her pieces and likes to initiate slow reactions, especially with acid. Urte blends raw elements such as gelatine, charcoal, ash, limestone, salvaged metals and natural binders to build pieces that can later disintegrate back into their surroundings. Her sculptures usually live the life of their own - they change, develop or consume themselves over time. Urte is interested in the symbolism of the materials she works with, their transformation between creation and erosion and how matter moves between living and non-living states.
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