Material Matters

Michael Morgan turns an ordinary building material (brick) into extraordinary landscape forms.

Two artists preserve their nature-based art with an equally natural material.

Stephanie Liner uses fabrics and upholstery techniques 
to create works that are part sculpture, part performance. Shannon Sharpe decodes
their startling messages about what it means to be female 
in today's society.

Elizabeth Lopeman explores Laura Splan's use of surprising materials such as facial peel
and her references to both textiles and body elements.

Iain Aitch gives us the scoop on the amazingly creative, aesthetically pleasing and eco-friendly uses to which a London-based artist puts one of the world's foremost gross-out materials-poop.