Corrina Thornton
My initial training is with clay, in a sculptural and craft-based focus, until I took my Masters in Bergen (2009-2011). From this point I began working with sculpture and site-specific practice. From 2011 my work became more and more based on cathartic processes and autobiographical narratives and expressions. The use of matter (material voice collaborations) in my practice is firmly rooted and is used as a mirror to visualise the emotive and instigate affect through actions, sculpture, and video work. Societal knowledge around clay is used as a tool to voice human experience, for example my sabotage of the beautiful, technologically advanced, and prestigious porcelain in sculptures and video work in the series “Brittle Bodies”.
Since 2020 I have been using storytelling of my personal experience of motherhood as a centrifugal point, and through auto ethnographic research have deepened my understanding of broader contexts and experiences. I wish to verbalise and point to problematics in society around birth, the post-natal, motherhood and care
