Martha Lyons Haywood

Martha’s sculptures and installations are results of tentative deliberations through physical play and intervention of materials, space and environment. She dedicates time to existing objects and to the innate natures of materials balancing 'beauty in tension'.

Much of her work is made up of found, natural and organic materials which allow her to play with alchemy and to create dialogues between harmonies or crises in our surrounding cultures: life/death, material/environment, human to human, the authentic/the surreal, the absurd/the necessary, love/romance, sadness/humour. Other materials and actions in her practice (lenses, tools, performance...) are symbolic of human intervention and movement. She studies human psyche and sociology to fuel her work through either auto-suggestion or iterative thought.