BayArt

Cardiff Bay / Bae Caerdydd

05/04/24 - 15/04/24

Charlotte Grayland’s latest solo exhibition, Græg, explores familial memory through passed down craft and materials. Focusing on repeated iconography, inherited aesthetic characteristics and intergenerational dialogue, the show sits to question and acknowledge the masculine and feminine elements present in the self.

Presenting a series of abstracted geometric sculptures, Grayland plays on the elemental qualities of her mediums to portray the skeletal attributes of invisible inheritance. Works can be dismantled, folded, separated and reassembled, simulating the repeated processes of memory recollection.

The show considers the relationship and conflict between traditional masculine and feminine imagery and materials, transforming more masculine associated visual elements into more feminine associated materials and outcomes.

Centred around three quilted portraits made in collaboration with her Mother, Græg also highlights traditionally Welsh feminine craft (or ‘women’s work’), as a way to connect to her generational family labour, whilst linking the gallery space to the domestic; the home.

All work on display was made and developed during Grayland’s time on the BayArt Writing Room Residency.

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Slip, 2024.

Below: Exhibition Book

with accompanying text by Laura Hughes