Lana Locke, Aluminium tulip, 2012

Lana Locke describes herself as a cross-disciplinary artist who explores the tensions of straddling domestic and art-making spaces as an artist mother, against wider political, social and ecological contexts. She explores the precariousness of human and non-human life, often by capturing perishing forms that signal our mortal interdependence on our surrounding communities and environments. Conflicting elements are forced together, and here a tulip is fused with a Coca-Cola tin. That places the flower in a consumer context – are we not consuming nature to potentially terminal extent? – as well as calling attention to how the natural world has to deal with the results of human pollution. Text by Paul Carey-Kent