Californian sculptor Liz Larner is staging her first major UK exhibition, A Hard Line to Bend, at Camden Arts Centre in London, showcasing decades of work made from unconventional materials including human hair, false eyelashes, leather, surgical gauze and even breath bacteria. The show highlights her enduring interest in transforming discarded or overlooked substances into art that carries both beauty and unease, reflecting her longstanding engagement with ecological and feminist themes.

Among the works featured are pieces made from single-use plastic that Larner began collecting after China stopped accepting American plastic waste for recycling, and ceramic "asteroid" sculptures based on Nasa imagery, created amid growing commercial interest in space exploration. Larner, born in 1960 to a Californian farming family and exposed to DDT spraying as a child, has drawn on eco-feminist thought and mythological figures such as Lilith, while also reflecting on her formative years in Los Angeles' 1980s art scene alongside figures including John Baldessari, Mike Kelley and Dennis Cooper.