my body of work

please scroll, pause when something speaks to you, and think about some things

love, lola

I was lucky enough to be an artist highlighted by my fellow curation students, We worked collaboratively on this showing.

"Lola Carroll Hamilton explores the physical body's vulnerability, which mirrors her practice; an honest and brutal female experience. Her sculptural multimedia works transform the body into a surface of display, contortion, and endurance. The female body and its skin has always been a site of change, editing, transformation and constant maintenance. Her work Skin is a focus on tactile violation and Arch, a sculpture work spotlights an enamel-drowned figure which emphasises painful submission. Lola’s works are focused on the subjection of the body into contorted and non-autonomous poses to access certain freedoms, their transformations at the whim of society. The unnatural transformation of the body such as arching sheds and exposes the flesh while seeking respite and normality."

Skin

"Skin is a tactile and interactive work that creatively and technically recreates a fragment of human skin. Displayed on glass panels and a white plinth, the piece invites viewers to touch its surface. Lola describes it as "doomed to be violated in one way or another,” a form designed to be ignited through touch. This exchange renders the audience both participant and perpetrator, and nihilistically accepts one’s fate, a choice Lola commends as the path to healing. Through its delicate materiality and responsiveness, Skin meditates on the soft malleability of flesh and the social, physical, and psychological pressures exerted upon the body."

Arch, Sculpture, 2025

"Inspired by her experience maturing, Lola’s installation reimagines a female figure in a posture of prayer or begging, with an emphasis on the figure’s arched back. This arched pose is one of vulnerability and exposure: a desperation for respite and normality after violation and exploitation. Positioned low to the ground, the figure compels viewers to look down upon her, establishing a visual and moral hierarchy. Yet rather than being overlooked, Lola’s piece resists invisibility. It confronts, intrudes, and demands attention."