Ruup & Form Presents The Fragmented Landscape by Katie Spragg
The Fragmented Landscape
25.04.25 - 24.05.25
Preview: Thursday, April 24, 2025, 6-8 PM
Ruup & Form is delighted to present The Fragmented Landscape a new exhibition by ceramic artist Katie Spragg, featuring contributions from invited artists Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Rosanna Martin, Inês Neto dos Santos, Sop, and Bethan Lloyd Worthington.
The Fragmented Landscape invites visitors to step into a world of shifting terrains, delicate details, and layered impressions—an exploration of the diverse plant life and environments that have informed Spragg’s practice over the past eight years. The exhibition brings together a constellation of works that place different landscapes and ecosystems in conversation, considering what happens when these contrasting environments coexist, overlap, and interact.
At the core of the exhibition is Spragg’s growing interest in the fragmented—both in nature and in human experience. Informed by her clay workshops with people living with dementia, the works reflect on memory, observation, and representation as fluid and fractured processes. Rather than seeking cohesion, the exhibition embraces ambiguity and invites audiences to consider fragmentation as a pathway to deeper, more nuanced understandings of the world and of each other.
To expand this dialogue, Spragg has brought together five artists whose practices resonate with her own. Working across sculpture, installation, drawing, and material exploration, Johanna Tagada Hoffbeck, Rosanna Martin, Inês Neto dos Santos, Sop, and Bethan Lloyd Worthington each explore relationships to plants, place, and the ways we navigate space. Their works address themes of caregiving, longing, nourishment, fermentation, and lived experience—contributing to a shared yet multifaceted landscape within the gallery.
“The Fragmented Landscape combines past sculptures with newly developed drawings and wall-based clay ‘sketches,’ drawing inspiration from my local East Sussex surroundings and my weekly train journey between Brighton and London. The work explores how we move through, remember, observe, and experience landscapes—considering how these experiences are shaped and fragmented in our memories and imaginations.", Katie Spragg
The Fragmented Landscape is a poetic invitation to pause, reflect, and reimagine our relationship with place. It asks us to consider how we carry the environments we pass through—and how memory, like landscape, is never fixed but always in motion.
About the Artist
Katie Spragg is an artist working predominantly in ceramics. Her work explores our interconnected relationship with nature, questioning the evolving patterns in which humans and plants co-exist. She is interested in how plants behave and how their behaviour can help us reconsider our own approach to communities, care, landscape and our place in the world.
Katie often creates work in response to participation of other people, recent projects include Lambeth Wilds (2019) at the Garden Museum with Lambeth Young Carers and Clay for Dementia group, Plants, Porcelain People (2021); a collaborative exhibition with Norwich International Youth Group and Sowing the Seed (2022); workshops for children at a community allotment with Grow Eastbourne and Towner Gallery, and Natural Practice (2023); a series of community engagement and research residencies across three Hauser & Wirth sites; Braemar, Scotland; Menorca, Spain and Somerset, England, culminating in a solo exhibition at Make Hauser & Wirth.
Katie’s catalogue of work includes a piece in the V&A collection, a permanent installation at the Garden Museum and commissions for the British Ceramics Biennale and Sotheby’s. She has exhibited with the Craft Council in London and Miami, at Make, Hauser & Wirth and with solo shows at Blackwell, Arts and Crafts House, the Garden Museum, Ruup & Form and Make Hauser & Wirth. Katie is a tutor on the Ceramics & Glass department at the Royal College of Art and a founding member of Collective Matter; an outreach group pioneering collaborative practice through clay.
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