Henna Vainio’s primary medium is pigmented plaster from which she builds lean freestanding statues cast from moulds of corrugated cardboard sheeting, and wall-hanging slabs cast from squashed towels and other pliant textiles. Along with plaster, she uses glass to fuse together layers of gesture, shape, and opacity of heated and cooled forms, embedding them with components of everyday materials. The piece is part of a series of glass collages made during shelter-in-place.

Vainio (b.1981 in Jyväskylä, Finland) is a graduate of Chelsea College of Arts, London and The Slade School of Art, London. Recent exhibitions include ‘Hardstep’, Josh Lilley Gallery, London, (2019); ‘More Life’, Ratio 3, San Francisco (2018); ‘Step of Two’, RoyalNonSuch Gallery, Oakland (2017).