Zuza Mengham is a London-based multidisciplinary Artist. Rooted in a preoccupation with process and materials, her work explores the join between traditional craft and exploring new methods of making.
The use and manipulation of materials within her work invites questions about the ways in which they are synthesised. Formal arrangements are put under pressure, combining elements that might be expected to oppose one another, so that new associations can materialize, inviting questions about our current societal demands, which operate within an ever increasing rate of content acceleration, consumption and hybridization.
Often sculptural work serves to create a sensorial tie or anchor to ideas of landscape and geologies, both actual and forged. The results have the effect of compacted narratives, merging natural and synthetic elements--both historical and contemporary--into inverse psycho-geologies, spaces, artefacts or relics.
2020
Inner Space, Oliver Beer Studio, Soho, London
2019
Method, Make and Modern Sculpture, London Craft Week, J&M Davidson, London
Abstract vs Figure 1952 – 2019, Pinsent Masons, London
2018
Otomys Gallery, Battersea Art Fair, London
We See, We Hear You, Subject Matter Art at The Hospital Club, London
Otomys Gallery, Stockholm Art Fair, Stockholm
2017
Prototypes and Experiments, Aram Gallery, London
Rising Talent, Award Winner, Maison Et Objet, Paris
Lichen x Jesmonite, London Design Fair, Hole & Corner installation, London
Modern Ancient Land, Otomys Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Riposte 9, KK Outlet, London
2016
As Above, So Beneath, Chopping Block Gallery, London
Sculpting Scent, Conran Marylebone, London
2014
We Shape London, Apricot Gallery Rag Factory, London
2012
Divine Party Time, Inland Studios, London
2011
On Board 2: Tram Shed, London
Closed Quarters, Vyner Street Gallery, London
Degree Show, Wimbledon College of Art, UAl, London
2010
Panic Wagon, Fold Gallery, London
Echoes of Other Worlds, Stables Gallery, Orleans House Gallery, London
Nooks and Crannies, Moss & Co. London
2009
Park 09, Cannizzaro Park public exhibition, London
Out of Bounds, Camden Art Center, London
Hobnob 1: Fakery, InQBate Gallery, Brighton