Lotti V Closs B.1987, Whitstable. Lives and works in Stockport, studio holder at Paradise Works in Manchester since 2022. Studied BA fine art at Nottingham Trent 2006-2009 and MFA Sculpture at West Dean 2012-2014, has exhibited across the U.K, and in Mexico City as part of the Architectural Association Visiting School in 2016. 

Closs’s work hinges upon a intuitive, playful approach to making, filtered through a distinct surrealistic language. Her material choices reflect the immediacy and intimacy of the handmade, most often chosen for range in working techniques and appearance, others for their seductive tactility. Her current focus is on the development of her process through ceramic sculpture.

She is fascinated in the alien quality of apparent yet indefinable visual information, and the production of language specific to a object, image or environment. 

Her process-centred practice actively allows personal reflection, the material and fabrication methods to equally guide evolving forms. Built works and images are compiled of disparate elements, altered and combined through a series of balanced reactions. Each work reflects a conversation between artist and material, unique to it's own accumulative nature. Through a convoy of these physical sketches moments of observation spark tangible associative imagery; from patterns in nature to allusions of utility. Fundamentally, Closs's works are caught moments in evolution, hybrids questioning identity and agency through the material body.