2015 – Kath Inglis – Lamina

Kath Inglis – Lamina

15 April – 2 May 2015

Inglis has developed a distinctive range of contemporary jewellery by working with her
signature material, polyvinyl chloride (PVC). The material is sourced as a clear flexible
sheet and is manipulated by a process of colouring, cutting, carving and more recently,
heat fusing layers.
Small shards of material are removed from the surface through intricate hand cut incisions
creating new surface textures for light and shadow to play. The hard cut edges and sharp
glittering prisms of colour generated allude to qualities associated with glass. To touch this
work dispels the illusion as the material is flexible, supple and as light as air.
Inglis continues to push the material by creating works that form a self portrait of
observations, concerns and issues.

The title of this show refers to the process of heat fusing layers of PVC together. This idea
started to form in 2012 while working on a collaborative public art project in the Clare
Valley with a Glass Blower and a Stone Mason. We created five large sculptures from
Auburn Bluestone, a rock composed of many layers. The notion of layers came to the
forefront of my thinking while working on this project. One layer forms the bed for the next,
how it can influence or inform the subsequent structure of the rock.
This became a metaphor for the formation of towns over time. Generations of families,
businesses and industry – the tide of boom and bust. How one layer builds over the past…
sometimes a rich layer is pasted on and it is difficult to see the history beneath…
sometimes the bones of the past seem to protrude through a thin modern veil.