London-based artist and designer Zuza Mengham is fascinated by materials. She makes large-scale sculptures and installations that explore ideas of what constitutes a ‘space’, and objects that toy with the suggestion of function. Often incorporating traditional craft techniques into new settings and methods of making – as exemplified in her ‘fictitious furniture’ series of steel sculptures that seem both pointless and purposeful – Zuza creates modernist, abstract works that seem intriguingly out of sync with reality. Her current work has seen her shift from steel to resin – another material that is briefly malleable before settling into permanence – alongside a jewellery series that uses powdered copper and slate to create unique marbling effects.
We’re were happy to be helping Zuza’s work achieve the attention it deserves, and will be championing her incredible design-meets-art projects through strategic publicity and social-media campaigns. We were especially excited to have helped Zuza initiate her creative collaboration with Laboratory Perfumes that launched for the London Design Festival 2016.
At London Design Fair, Zuza Mengham presents a new series of sculptures made by mixing the Material of the Year Jesmonite with lichen
Tom Dixon picked the sculptor and designer for Maison & Object’s Rising Talent Awards UK. Unsurprisingly she’s pretty chuffed…
London-based photography duo Ilka & Franz showcases Sculpting Scent as a series of hypnotic gifs.
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Sculptor, designer and all-round wonder-human Zuza Mengham outlines what she is, what she does and what she wants.