Gradient, Lola Lazaro Hinks, 2019

Gradient by Lola Lazaro Hinks, 2019
Glass
14 x 36.5 x 6cm

Gradient is taken from Lola Lazaro Hinks' Architectural Fragments series which is drawn from the pervasive use of transparent glass in modern architecture, and from an inquiry into why transparency has come to function as an ideal within contemporary society. Glass is often used to project utopian narratives of connection and openness. Yet this clarity is intrinsically bound to exposure, surveillance, and control—forces that flatten human presence by reducing it to a visible surface. Through her fragments, she works to soften this tension, allowing the material to move, sag, and settle on its own terms. Depth and tonal colour introduce obscurity, while control is loosened through remelting the glass.

Lola Lazaro Hinks is a British artist and designer based in London. She creates objects,sculpture and cameraless photographic prints using kilnformed glass, steel and light-sensitive paper. Trained as a photographer, she soon shifted her focus away from the camera itself towards the conditions under which looking happens. Through working with opposing qualities in glass, she explores seeing and visibility, making objects that both reveal and obscure - extending sight while also offering shelter from it.

At the core of her practice is punctured visibility: a rhythm of appearance and disappearance that resists both constant exposure and complete invisibility. It is a way of seeing and being seen that is not continuous but intentional, defined on one’s own terms. This is a form of vision shaped as much by what remains unseen as by what is visible.

She holds an MA in Ceramics and Glass from the Royal College of Art (2018) and a BA in Fine Art Photography from the Arts University Bournemouth (2012).