artist based in London

sienna murdoch works with geline, a tactile biomaterial she developed from algae.

somewhere between jelly, silicone and glass, soft yet resilient, fleshy, seductive, strange.

Its vulnerability embraced, geline can be melted down and reshaped endlessly, carrying traces of everything it’s been, allowing sienna to experiment with works that are rich in sensation, yet free from the frigidity of shipping, storage and categorisation.

through sculptural tableaux, she assembles fragments modelled from selected objects to create sensory landscapes with their own logic.

tools, toys, fruit, bodily impressions, apparatus are tampered with until they’re barely legible, just a tug of recognition. forms you feel you’ve encountered but can’t place.

living in the threshold between seeing and touching, they seduce your eye but demand verification through contact. The anticipation is where the work lives.

touch is central to sienna’s practice as a mode of embodied understanding. her work explores how touch accesses emotion, memory and desire. the work invites audiences into a practice that implicates them, creating moments of connection, play, discomfort, and care.

Alongside her studio practice, sienna collaborates widely, creating bespoke installations and sculptural environments for cultural institutions, film productions, and public events.