jacqueline bradley

Hot, Cold, Heavy, Light was an exhibition of recent works from Dionisia Salas, Rosalind Lemoh, Merryn Lloyd and Jacqueline Bradley. Intimate in scale and content, their works capture bodily gesture through the tactile mark. A sucked orange is frozen in bronze, a face washer crystalises into glass, bodies float in and out of soft abstraction and textile threads are caught in small quilts. These pieces act as a reflection on the series of moments and tasks that makes up a day. A shared experience of motherhood feeds into their practices; shaped by the routines of looking after children which are both a mixture of toil and wonderment. Alongside their studio practices, days are filled with truffle hunting, looking at the shape of a biscuit, expressing milk, drawing butterfly chrysalis. These works are a beginning, in which new connections and ideas emerge in conversation with one another. Salas, Lemoh, Lloyd and Bradley are artists drawn together not by genre or theme, but by experience.

Read an essay on the work from Camilla Wagstaff here

Above - Marbles 2025, cast glass, 11 x 11 x 4cm. Photograph: Andrew Sikorski

Below - Cat nipples 2025, cast glass, string, beetroot juice. 48 x 7 x 3cm. Photograph: Andrew Sikorski