Lara Dent is best known for her exploration of a wide range of mixed media, from textiles through to ceramics, to create large three-dimensional installations. Manipulating varying materials & their characteristics, with strong influences from the natural world, textural contrasts are deeply explored. The resulting dreamy displays are targeted not only at interactive gallery spaces, where they will actively engage the viewer, but also at shop windows, to reach wider audiences and commercial viability; through their unique handcrafted experience they should cause the customer to forget negative notions of consumerism and focus on the wonder of the store through magical child-like imagination.