Collection: Lotti V Closs

Lotti V Closs is a sculptor based in Manchester, working across a variety of materials and scales. She studied MFA Sculpture at West Dean College, graduating in 2014, and has exhibited nationally and internationally. Her practice explores the simplicities and complexities of play and relationship, straddling the domestic and the theatrical.

Her first all-stone body of work, produced in 2016, was inspired by research undertaken during a Visiting School with the Architectural Association to Las Pozas, Mexico — the Surrealist 'concrete garden'. This culminated in her solo exhibition In Plain Sight at Castor Projects London, which travelled to The Number Shop in Edinburgh.

This first trio of one-off Alabaster sculptures, made exclusively for Artists & Objects, uses traditional methods — sawn, chiselled, and sanded by hand. The stone's translucency brings to life an interior of delicate veining and soft fluid clouding against the light, unique to each piece. Sharp angles combine with curving intrusions and protrusions, referencing both the manufactured and the organic in miniature monolithic form.