Liz Larner: A hard line to bend
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Liz Larner: A hard line to bend

11 September 2026 to 17 January 2027

Critic score

3/5 from 1 rating

Liz Larner’s first show at a major UK institution gathers a decade of sculpture in ceramic, bronze, wood and discarded plastic, tracing myth, ecology and material transformation room by room.

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The first exhibition at a major UK institution of Liz Larner (b. 1960) – one of the most influential and significant American sculptors of her generation. For the past three decades, Larner has explored the potential of sculpture to affect and expand our embodied encounter with the world. This exhibition brings together works primarily from the last decade and foregrounds the artist’s current ecological concerns and her continued radical experiments in material and form....

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Critic Review

The Guardian

Eddy Frankel

Liz Larner review – crystal comets crash to Earth yet fail to make much impact

"Choosing to focus on new ceramic works instead of properly introducing this relatively little-known American artist with a survey or retrospective is a strange choice that doesn't service the audience. This result is a muddled, disparate, confusing mishmash of an introduction to an artist whose career deserved a simpler, easier way in."

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