2025
Sugar, royal icing on wood
50 x 45 cm
Semi-domesticated Poodle is a mosaic made of hand-cut sugar glass. Alongside her sugar work, a reactive poodle came into the artist’s life, deemed ‘the worst dog in 40 years’ by canine behaviourists. Using reimagined artifact and drawing on historical narratives Lloyd playfully questions where our behavioural instincts come from. She often likens her process to taming a wild animal as the sugar’s reactive quality can produce unpredictable, tragic, and unexpectantly beautiful effects. Her mosaic Semi-domesticated Poodle is a painstaking piecing together of fragile material, full of behind-the-scene failures as an ode to the artist’s dog and the unlikely bond between them.
Sophie makes expressive and stylised sugar sculptures. With fixed open mouths, candy colours and sickly sweet material, these figures evoke both gluttony and the uncanny.
Care instructions:
This piece is made from sugar and therefore sensitive to its environment and any reactions taking place aligns with the intentions of the work. To maximise its lifetime, avoid sources of heat and humid environments. This artwork contains lead and so should not be eaten despite its sugar content. Always wash hands after handling this work and gloves are recommended. It should not be handled by children.
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