This section brings together installations, artifacts, altars, and ritual actions that form a central part of my practice. The works are often site responsive and material led, developing through processes of gathering, repetition, binding, sealing, wrapping, marking, and transformation.

Ritual has been present throughout my life, often emerging intuitively, even in childhood, as a way of structuring time, managing emotion, and responding to feelings of isolation. These early private actions were not named or recognised as art, but they laid the foundation for the ways materials and processes would later carry meaning.

During my time in an off-site studio at university, I became consciously aware of ritual as a mode of working. What had been intuitive became deliberate, and the work shifted into a new phase of creative possibility. This awareness opened a new horizon, allowing materials, objects, and actions to unfold with a clarity and intensity that had not previously been visible, and revealing possibilities that had always existed but had not yet been seen.

Altars appear within this practice as temporary sites of attention, containment, and tension. Some rituals leave behind physical remnants that later function as artifacts, while others exist only through trace, memory, or documentation. Together, these works explore questions of care, control, vulnerability, aid, and power, allowing materials and actions to carry meaning without requiring resolution.

Some rituals leave behind artifacts, while others exist only through action or memory. Together, all these ways of working reflect the questions I return to across my practice, about care, transformation, and how materials can carry meaning.

Linda Sgoluppi Art