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"There are no discreet, cohesive or authentic identities within Sormin's extreme ceramics.  Each material, process and maker melts into the other – entangled in a hybrid where form and surface become one.  The works are physically and conceptually provisional and unstable.  Here creativity is about potentialities, a speculative utopianism that embraces chance, risk, failure and surprise." — D. Sherlock

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"Linda Sormin's work is not cautious. It is willful and inhabits the imagination and physical space with abandon. It is constructed on site, over time and sometimes over territory, as is the case with exhibitions that may be miles or continents away. Fragile pre-fabricated sections are placed, leaned, propped, levered, inserted and buttressed against each other to form an exclusive composition that is again built upon and detailed in response to the environment and atmosphere of the exhibition space. It belongs in the space because it is in the space and of the space. And, it is out of place because it is place."

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"Linda Sormin is trained as a functional potter. While she remains dedicated to the material, her process is porous and investigative. Pushing her objects beyond the function of containers or vessels, she applies traditional potting techniques only to deconstruct and then rebuild her works. Her practice is an accumulation of and speculation on material and technique: her method becomes improvisational and performative as she crafts, and as the work grows in dialogue with craft practice. What remains of the vessel is mere citation as the work expands into space and begins to explore its relation to architecture."