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Linda Florence’s approach combines traditional textiles, science and graphic illustration.
Layering patterns, colour and a range of unusual surfaces, many of her creations involve a level of interaction between the work and the user. Working between art and commercial design, Florence also uses textile references to create temporary site-specific installations and has shown these at the V&A in London. She is particularly recognised for the application of 'fugitive' materials in her floor works such as sugar, rust, iron filings and biscuits. Recognising the floor as the most touched surface and yet at the same time, the most overlooked and least inspiring of surfaces, her work aims to liberate flooring and give it a different life. Florence was recently selected, along with six other UK artists, to exhibit in 'Jerwood Contemporary Makers 2009' for which she receives a share of the £30,000 prize. Inspired by a recent trip to Libya, Florence created customised, tactile and highly decorative wall tiles which grew from the gallery floor onto the wall made using a rough flooring material patterned with soft textile flock. Another recent installation was commissioned by and shown at the Millennium Gallery in Sheffield, and was inspired by Museums Sheffield's metalwork...
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