Lynn Fulton

Member

Lynn Fulton’s work is sculpture based and comes from an underlying interest in the overlooked or the thing that is left behind. She sets up uncertain processes where the finished outcome cannot be predicted at the outset, the opposite of a plan or design, rather letting the sculpture find its own form. Lynn looks for situations where this contingency happens in the world, such as in the landscape or clothing patterns, playing with flatness and three dimensionality. Shifting between the familiar and the unknown, the sculptures reference objects and situations encountered in other contexts. The work asks us to play with our associations and understanding of these objects and what they might be. Recent work has developed to explore sculpture which has many ways of existing and being seen, folded or open, and that contain all these possibilities at the same time. This comes from an interest in the stored or passive form waiting to be activated, the potential of the storeroom or DIY store. Lynn Fulton’s practice uses colour that does not directly reference anything else, the colours are used intuitively and often come from house paint sample pots playing with ideas of contemporary interior design and surface.

Lynn Fulton has exhibited extensively in this country and abroad, she studied BA(Hons) at Bath Academy of Art 1984-87, and after some time involved in artist led organisations in Manchester and London went on to study at The Slade on the sculpture MFA which she completed in 1997. She was awarded a Boise travel scholarship in 1999 and spent three months in New York, some of this work was exhibited at Pierogi 2000 in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Lynn has participated in Art OMI, Upstate New York, Braziers and Shave farm artist residencies. She has shown in Surround with Nadine De Koenigswater, Gasworks, London (1995); The Whitechapel Open, London (1996), OPEM 3, The Collection, Lincoln (2014); In Miniature Small Collections, Nottingham Contemporary (2015); Shed, Mrs Rick’s, Primary (2015); Creekside Open, APT London 2019 (prizewinner); Yellow Moving Edge, with Sophie Mackfall, One Thoresby Street (2019), Royal Academy Summer Show, London (2021). Lynn was shortlisted for the Mark Tanner Sculpture Award in 2018. From 2014 until its closure in 2022 she was a studio member at One Thoresby Street. She is an associate lecturer on the Fine art course at Nottingham Trent University.