Platform A Gallery, Middlesborough Railway Station
28 September to 9 November
I’m delighted to be exhibiting in this group show curated by Eric Butcher. Artists include Morrissey and Hancock, David Batchelor, Rana Begum, Andy Harper, Eleanor Wood.
Curated by Jyll Bradley
Presented by Pi Artworks
Frieze Sculpture, London
19 September to 29 October
Solo exhibition at Pi Artworks, London
20-30 September
This exhibition of new sculptures, photographs, drawings and film was curated by Debbie Meniru.
Long-time collaborator Will Martin has made a new film celebrating the year long life of The Hop at the Hayward Gallery. The film is written and narrated by myself and features many of the creatives who were inspired by The Hop.
My work Graft 2 (Green and Blue) has been acquired by the Arts Council Collection. Founded in 1946, this prestigious collection is the most widely circulated national loan collection of modern and contemporary British art.
8 – 10 September, Javits Center
I am thrilled to be taking part in The Armory Show with Pi Artworks who are showing five women artists. Visit their stand at #414 to see work by myself, Fatma Bucak, Sarah Dwyer, Susan Hefuna and Holly Stevenson.
20 September to 29 October, The Regent’s Park
I am delighted The Hop will be presented at Frieze Sculpture 2023, curated by Fatos Ustek. Originally commissioned by the Hayward The Hop will be re-configured and become a focal point for performance and activation. The Hop will be presented by Pi Artworks with generous support from VADA.
The Hop fold-out is free to pick up at the Hayward Gallery. Featuring a newly commissioned essay by curator Debbie Meniru and poem by Abstract Benna.
Image credit: Jyll Bradley
16 March, the DiMenna Center for Classical Music, New York
I am delighted to be presenting three films in this unique art x music event curated by leading composer and collaborator Anna Clyne.
Image credit: Jyll Bradley/Clare Unsworth
22 February, The Quarterhouse, Folkestone, Kent.
I was honoured to be invited to adjudicate this regional heat of the Articulation Prize. The winner will re-present their talk soon at the finals at the National Gallery, London.
Image credit: Articulation Prize
10 February, The Old Gas Works, Folkestone, Kent
A farewell event was held for my Folkestone Triennial 2014 sculpture Green/Light (for M.R.). Originally planned for a 3 month exhibition, the work stayed for 9 years and was a significant catalyst in the Gas Work’s regeneration. The farewell included a dance ritual created by choreographer Michaela Cisarikova.
Image credit: Thierry Bal
This new film captures the performance in summer 2022 of Belonging (in the Hop) choreographed by Dr. Adesola Akinleye. The work was commissioned for The Hop and performed by members of Dancing Strong Movement Lab.
Image credit: Cheniece Warner
Over the summer we held a creative TikTok challenge in The Hop. The competition was produced by Evie Webzell for MCDC dance in partnership with Nonsensical TikTok. The winner was Spoken Word Artist Abstract Benna.
15 November – 14 January 2023
I am delighted to be showing a new suite of works on paper in this group show alongside Sophie Bouvier Auslander and Rebecca Salter.
Photo: Marcus Leith
I am delighted that The Hop’s residency at the Hayward has been extended to April 2023. The Hop has now been especially lit and forms part of the Southbank Winter Light festival.
Photo: Thierry Bal
29-30 September 2022
It was a privilege to participate in the Litvak Culture Forum, a unique programme of art and conversation dedicated to the Jewish memory of Kaunas. I presented my art project Threshold commissioned by the City’s European Capital of Culture Programme.
Photo: Gražvydas Jovaiša
September 2022
The Hop is subject of an extensive feature by writer Dilpreet Bhullar in leading international arts and culture publication StirWorld.
Photo: Thierry Bal
September 2022
Hayward Gallery Curator Debbie Meniru has written a wonderful text…’Reflections on what it means to grow something, inspired by my dad and the work of Jyll Bradley…’
Photo: Thierry Bal
July 2022
I’m delighted that part of my sculpture project Threshold commissioned for Kaunas European Capital of Culture is now in the collection of Kaunas’s leading art museum.
Photo: Gražvydas Jovaiša
Ralph Rugoff and I will be talking about my Hayward commission The Hop as well as my wider practice over 30 years involving light, space, place and identity. This is a ticketed event and will be at the Royal Festival Hall. All details in link.
Photo: Pete Woodhead
#TheHopChallenge is the world’s first TikTok x Sculpture challenge. The creative challenge is open to all to make creative TikToks using any arts form in response to my installation The Hop. TikToks can be made throughout August. They will be judged by leading arts figures and cash prizes awarded to winners in September.
#TheHopChallenge is created through a partnership between Nonsensical TikTok and MCDC dance company.
Leading choreography Adesola Akinleye will premiere her new dance work responding to my installation, The Hop on the Hayward Gallery Terrace. She will be performing with dancers from Dancing Strong Movement Lab.
www.southbankcentre.co.uk/whats-on/performance-dance/belonging-hop/
Photo: Cheniece Warner. Dancer: Adesola Akinleye
Threshold is a sculpture project centred on the mezuzah, a ritual Jewish object attached to the doors of Jewish homes and businesses. Before the Holocaust the mezuzah was a common sight on Kaunas’s streets. Threshold re-introduces the mezuzah and its concepts to Kaunas public realm through a participatory project which brings to light the city’s Jewish heritage.
www.kultura.kaunas.lt/en/events/view/istoriju-festivalis-instaliacija-viesose-erdvese-slenkstis/5251
Photo: Jyll Bradley
Exhibition at Patrick Heide Gallery co-curated by Jyll Bradley and Paul Carey-Kent. Until 17 September
This group exhibition – curated by myself and art writer Paul Carey-Kent – explores 14 contemporary international artists’ response to the ‘fold’ in visual practice.
Until September 24.
I am delighted to be participating in AORA:VI hosted by online Aoraspace. This group exhibition of leading international artists explores the expansive theme of light from levity and humour, hope and luminosity, radiance and shadow.
Photo: Theirry Bal
This major new commission is now open until 2 October. The work is free and accessible 24 hours a day.
Image: Jyll Bradley
Work is underway to install The Hop, my new installation commissioned by the Hayward Gallery. The Hop opens 18 May and runs to 2 October.
I have designed the set (with fellow artist Jonathan Wright) for Fish out of Water a new Arts Council awarded dance work by young Folkestone based company MCDC. The show is now off on summer tour starting with Brighton Fringe on 22 May.
Photo credit: Jyll Bradley
The Hop is a new commission inspired by the thousands of women and children who travelled from South London to Kent every year to bring in the hop harvest. Standing at almost four metres in height, the installation will echo the geometric design of a Kentish hop garden. Using my signature light-reactive materials The Hop will create a luminous public canopy alongside the Hayward Gallery.
Photo: Jyll Bradley
Photo: Thierry Bal
My new film made in collaboration with composer Anna Clyne and Violist Jane Atkins is now launched online.
Commissioned by Scottish Ensemble and the Fruitmarket gallery.
Photo: Will Martin
Pardes tells the story of my sculpture installation at the Fruitmarket, the first standalone work for the newly renovated warehouse. Fully illustrated and with an in-depth interview between myself and Director Fiona Bradley.
Photo: Elizabeth Mclean
Photo: Chris Scott
Opening the Air is a new Edition of 50 small-scale sculptures I have made for the Fruitmarket. Laser-etched fluorescent Plexiglas mounted on paint washed wood. The work is inspired by drawings of early glasshouse designs. All proceeds of sales go toward the work of the gallery.
Photo: Jyll Bradley
Fruitmarket and Dance Base Scotland announce SPACE/FRAME – a unique opportunity for dance/movement artists to work in residence with one of Scotland’s leading contemporary art galleries and to create a work in response to their current installation, Jyll Bradley’s Pardes.
Photo: Tom Nolan
Art Writer Paul Carey-Kent’s interview with me about my recent work is now live at Artlyst.
Photo: Neil Hanna
My installation Pardes at The Fruitmarket Gallery hosted a ‘secret gig’ by Sofar Sounds Edinburgh. Performing that night were Spoken Word Artist Inga Dale, Motown Brothers – Wayne and Morgan and Sean Focus.
Saturday 27 November at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
As part of the opening weekend of my solo sculpture commission ‘Pardes’, I will be showing a group of my films, all of which have my sculptures as their starting point. My films will be presented within ‘Pardes’ itself and include my new autobiographical work ‘M.R.’ There will be a post-screening ‘in conversation’ with myself and Fruitmarket Director Fiona Bradley.
25 November 2021 – 7 January 2022
I am delighted to be showing new works in group show ‘Trees Die Stand’ at Pi Artworks. The exhibition focusses on the human connection to plants and includes Paloma Varga Weisz, Dorothy Cross, Thomas Ruff, Daniel Silver, Goshka Macuga, Simon Moretti.
September 2021
This autumn myself and artist Jonathan Wright worked with up-and-coming Folkestone based dance company MCDC to develop a set design for their new production ‘Fish out of Water’. This exciting new work explores ideas of home, marginality and belonging. The work will be developed for touring in summer 2022.
M.R. my new autobiographical film will receive its World Premiere on 3 September as the opening event of the inaugural Folkestone Triennial Film Festival. For more information and tickets please follow the link:
I am thrilled to announce that my forthcoming autobiographical film M.R. has been awarded Arts Council Funding. The award enables me to complete the film and showcase it at The Folkestone Triennial in September and, later in the year, at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh.
I am pleased to once again be part of the Drawing Room Biennial. This celebrated exhibition and auction gives a snapshot of how artists are working with drawing today.
I am delighted to be commissioned to create ‘Threshold’ a sculpture project which will be part of the cultural programme for Kaunas, Lithuania as part of the City’s year as European Capital of Culture. My project draws from the concept of mezuzah, a small ritual object fixed to the doors of Jewish homes to mark the passage between private/sacred space and public/secular space. More details on this project soon.
I am delighted that Green/Light (for M.R.) my 2014 Folkestone Triennial artwork will re-open as part of the 2021 Triennial from 22 July to 2 November. I am proud that over the seven years of its life Green/Light has become a much-loved local beacon and a catalyst for regeneration of the gasworks.
Orchestra of St Luke’s, Wednesday Night Series, New York, 24 March 2021
I am delighted to be collaborating with Composer Anna Clyne to create an online evening of music and visual art inspired by geometry. The event is part of Orchestra of St Luke’s Wednesday Night Series and includes the World Premiere of Anna’s ‘Strange Loops’ and my film ‘Woman Holding a Balance’ for which Anna has composed the score. The program also features works by J.S. Bach and Steve Reich.
‘The Tzohar Mezuzah’ is the first artwork mezuzah designed by Jyll Bradley. The work is symbolically made by grafting together the ancient and modern – cedar wood and Edge-Lit Plexiglas. The work is hand-crafted in the UK and available to order through the artist.
Photo: Rob Orchardson
November 2020
I am pleased to be exhibiting a new suite of drawings in this exhibition curated by Clare Goodwin and Sandi Paucic.
Photo: ‘Hop Tags’ 2020, Jyll Bradley
April 2020
My work ‘Umbrella Work (blue)’, 2017 features in Exhibition Two, the online show curated by Clare Goodwin of Studio K3, Zurich to support artist’s visibility and creativity during COVID 19.
Photo: Jyll Bradley
Work in progress, April 2020
I am currently working on ‘M.R.’ an autobiographical film which will premier at The Folkestone Triennial in 2021. ‘M.R.’ is the story of an artist, her artwork and the world they make together. Exploring ideas of adoption, place and identity ‘M.R.’ is a creation story for our times.
Photo: Jyll Bradley/Thierry Bal
Work in progress, March 2020.
A prototype section for ‘Pardes’ my major new commission for The Fruitmarket has been built in my studio. Due to COVID 19 the work will now open in November 2021. ‘Pardes’ is engineered and built by long-term collaborator Ben Godber.
Photo: Jyll Bradley
December, 2019
MCDC performed their work ‘Paranoid About Our Origins’ within my Folkestone Triennial installation as part of the town’s Living Advent Calendar programme. Choreography by Michaela Cisarikova. Costumes by Rane Jiang.
Photo: Rane Jiang.
Daily from 9am-6pm (not weekends)
I am currently having a solo presentation of my work at Howick Place, a space curated by HS Projects. I am showing works that respond closely to the interior architecture and differing light sources within the building as well as relating to my life in London.
My work ‘Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block)’ featured in both print and online editions of The Times as part of the launch for ‘Sculpture in the City’ 2019.
Photo credit: Richard Pohle for The Times.
27 June 2019 – May 2020
My work ‘Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block)’ has been selected for Sculpture in the City 2019. This City of London-wide exhibition sees sculptures by leading international artists sited amidst some of the most iconic architecture in the world. Artists this year include Lawrence Weiner, Do Ho Suh, Nancy Rubins, Leo Fitzmaurice, Reza Aramesh, Jennifer Steincamp and Nathan Coley. ‘Dutch/Light’ is installed against Sir John Cass Primary School in Aldgate Square.
Jyll Bradley + Bridget Smith
Collections Gallery, HSBC, Level 6, 8 Canada Square, London E14 5HQ
29 May – 26 July 2019
Jyll Bradley and Bridget Smith first met as students at Goldsmiths College (1985 – 1988) and independently gained recognition for their cutting-edge work with photography and the photographic image. Over time both have moved away from traditional photographic representations towards an exploration of photography’s intrinsic elements – light and space. Curated by Jeremy Akerman.
My work was selected for Drawing Biennial 2019 at The Drawing Room. This biennial, an established fixture in the art world calendar, is a snapshot of contemporary drawing practices. The exhibition includes more than 240 new and recent works on paper by leading international artists.
The Old Gas Works, Folkestone, UK
October 2018 – March 2019
Innovative educators ‘Little Architect’ have released a beautiful short film of their work with Folkestone children. Shot in and around Green/Light (for M.R.) – my Folkestone Triennial installation – their work is part of Pioneering Places: East Kent, an ambitious community project exploring the future potential of the town. Pioneering Places is part of the nationwide Great Place Scheme.
September – October 2018
Charente, France
I was invited to participate in Launch Pad LaB, a new artists’ residency program established in the grounds of La Boissière, an ancestral home in rural southwest France. Developed by the owner, contemporary art collector and philanthropist Veronique de Champvallier Parke in collaboration with Sarah Elson of Launch Pad, Launch Pad LaB offers artists the space and time for research and experimentation. My fellow residents for the six weeks were Mary Ramsden and Simon Callery.
Sculpture in the City 2018, City of London
27 June 2018 – May 2019
My newly commissioned work Opening the Air, is now on view as part of Sculpture in the City 2018. SITC is a world-class public art exhibition set amongst the architectural landmarks of the City of London. My work is sited in St. Helen’s Square next to the Leadenhall Building (known as The Cheesegrater). Other participating artists include: Marina Abramovic, Sarah Lucas, Thomas J Price, Miroslaw Balka.
www.sculptureinthecity.org.uk.
(Image credit: Nick Turpin)
20 – 25 May 2018
The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
I undertook a research trip for my forthcoming solo presentation at The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh. I visited sites of ‘growing cultures’ – from eighteenth century glasshouses to heritage apple orchards.
Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block) has been extended through to November 2018.
Turner Contemporary, Margate and Yo Street Zone, Cliftonville
Dutch/Light (for Agneta Block) at Turner Contemporary, Margate is the site for a new football skills video by Yo Street Zone. To watch please click the link www.youtube.com.
New Art Centre, Art Brussels, Tour and Taxis
18 – 22 April
I will be showing work at Art Brussels for the first time with New Art Centre, Roche Court alongside Phyllida Barlow, Toby Ziegler, Dorothy Cross, David Annesley, John Hubbard, Johannes Nagel.
Coleman Project Space, London, UK
19 January – 11 February
Artists who make works on paper that have autonomy from other aspects of their output could be described as looking for space, for movement beyond accepted genres. ‘Some Islands’ explores this idea through the work of Andrew Bick, Jyll Bradley, Clare Goodwin, Emma Talbot, Lothar Goetz, Dieter Roth, Daniel Robert Hunziker.
Co-Curated by Andrew Bick and Clare Goodwin.
www.colemanprojects.org.uk.
www.paulsartworld.blogspot.co.uk.
Folkestone Artworks / Folkestone Triennial, Folkestone, UK
2 September–5 November
Jyll Bradley’s acclaimed installation for Triennial 2014 re-opens to the public for the first time in three years. Green/Light (for M.R.) is constructed on the site of the Old Gas Works in Folkestone. The work is set out as a hop garden, twinning the traditional grid of poles, wires and string drawing of Kent’s historic agriculture with minimalist aluminium and edge-lit Plexiglas. This highly personal sculpture reflects the artist’s history in Folkestone and London – and creates a space for others to consider the dualities in their own pasts and futures.
Turner Contemporary, Margate
12 August–25 February
Dutch/Light is a new installation drawing upon the ingenuity of early Anglo-Dutch glasshouse technology. Made of edge-lit Plexiglas and re-purposed timber from Chatham Dockyard the work is activated by sunlight to create a pavilion of geometric colour. Dutch/Light is commissioned to mark the 350th anniversary of the Dutch Raid on the River Medway, a naval incident which brought an end to the Anglo-Dutch wars.
Presented in collaboration with Culture Kent.
Engineered and fabricated by Ben Godber www.godber.co.uk
Permanent artwork pergola with seating
Leads Road, Hull, Yorkshire, UK
Green/Shade creates a focal point and social space for the garden of an innovative public housing scheme in Hull. The work has a galvanised steel structure referencing Hull’s industrial heritage with edge-lit Plexiglas detail and literary engraving. The work is designed so that climbing plants grow overhead creating shade for residents. Green/Shade draws inspiration from ‘The Garden’, a metaphysical poem written by Hull-born Andrew Marvell (1621-1678).
Fabricated by Darbyshire.
Chatham Historic Dockyard 29 May–3 August 2017
Turner Contemporary 12 August–5 November
Commissioned by Turner Contemporary and Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust.
Dutch/Light is a new installation drawing upon the ingenuity of early Anglo-Dutch glasshouse technology. Made of edge-lit Plexiglas and re-purposed timber from Chatham Dockyard the work is activated by sunlight to create a pavilion of geometric colour. Dutch/Light is commissioned to mark the 350th anniversary of the Dutch Raid on the River Medway, a naval incident which brought an end to the Anglo-Dutch wars.
Presented in collaboration with Culture Kent.
Engineered and fabricated by Ben Godber www.godber.co.uk
Permanent artwork
National Magazine House, Soho, London, UK
Modus Operandi
Due for completion 2020
Jyll Bradley has won a competition to create a major artwork across two facades of a soon to be renovated building in Soho. The work is inspired by Soho pub culture and will take the form of a unique trellis based on heritage hop growing patterns. This will be designed to interact with a growing ‘green’ wall. The synergy between green wall and artwork will be one of the first of its kind in the UK. The project is in early stages of design development and subject to planning permission.
Note: Drawing of hop pattern shown is indicative only.
New Art Centre, Roche Court, East Winterslow, Salisbury, UK
8 July–17 September 2017
Jyll Bradley is proud to be participating in a group painting exhibition exploring the theme of neo-geometry along side Francesca Simon and David Ward. Bradley will be showing work from her suite ‘Notes’ (2016). These spray paintings on hand folded ‘tracedown’ carbon paper represent personal ‘notes to self’ and a return to making in the studio.
Jyll Bradley’s work was selected for Drawing Biennial 2017 at The Drawing Room, London, UK. This biennial, an established fixture in the art world calendar, is a snapshot of contemporary drawing practices. The exhibition includes more than 240 new and recent works on paper by leading international artists.
Monday 12th June 2017, 6.30pm
Anglia Ruskin University, Coslett Building, Room Cos124
To mark the occasion of the siting of a major, new public art commission for the Tamburlaine Hotel, on Station Road, Cambridge, artist Jyll Bradley will be in conversation with Eliza Gluckman, Curator of the New Hall Art Collection at Murray Edwards College, University of Cambridge, and A Woman’s Place Project (Day+Gluckman).
Strange Cargo, Cheriton, UK
Saturday 11 March 2017, 2pm
To mark the occasion of the screening of Jyll Bradley’s film ‘Brigitte’ at The Strangelove Festival, Folkestone, the artist will be in conversation with the film’s namesake: Strange Cargo’s Artistic Director Brigitte Orasinski.
Permanent artwork
The Tambulaine Hotel, Cambridge, UK
Commission Projects
Span was commissioned as part of CB1 Cambridge, a major regeneration project transforming the Station Road area. Span draws inspiration from the nearby historic botanical garden which has significant ‘espaliered’ trees. The work is illuminated by night creating a special moment on a busy road as well as aiding way-finding for guests returning to the hotel. Fabricated by Darbyshire.
21 September–29 October 2016
Solo exhibition, l’étrangère, London, UK
A solo exhibition of all new work and the premier of Jyll Bradley’s first film ‘Brigitte‘. The exhibition ‘expands inwards’ from her recent acclaimed public realm commissions into a new and distinctive body of work for the gallery.
20 October 2016, 7pm
On the occasion of her solo exhibition at l’étrangère, London, Jyll Bradley will be in conversation with Paul Hobson, Director of Modern Art Oxford.
Jyll Bradley has been shortlisted for The Evelyn Commission a new initiative produced by York Art Gallery, York, UK. The inaugural commission is funded by two anonymous donors. The shortlisted artists – Jyll Bradley, Ruth Ewan and Marinella Senatore – are invited to create a new work which responds to the City of York’s rich history, its environ or society, past of present.
Folkestone band Native People have made a music video for their new single ‘To Lose What’ on the site of Jyll Bradley’s Green/Light (for M.R) Folkestone Triennial commission.
Watch the video here. www.facebook.com/NativePeople
Jyll Bradley’s work Le Jardin hospitalier features in ‘Up the Garden Path’ by RA Magazine Editor Sam Phillips.
The article coincides with the RA exhibition ‘Painting the Modern Garden.’
Jyll Bradley has been commissioned for the biennial Cheriton Light Festival. An ‘espalier’ is a technique for training fruit trees so that maximum sun reaches the ripening fruit. This new work draws upon Bradley’s childhood memories of Kentish orchards. Created for the sunny southerly wall of Strange Cargo the work celebrates the twin colours of growth – green leaf and red fruit.
Jyll Bradley has been interviewed for the Government Art Collection website as part of International Women’s Day celebrations.
Interview by Curator Nicky Hodge
www.gac.culture.gov.uk/bradley
Artist Residency, November 2015
Arbroath, Scotland
Jyll Bradley will participate in the Autumn Residency Programme at Hospitalfield. Her focus will be ‘unpacking’ the ideas behind two significant public artworks she created between 2014-15. She will be exploring the consequences of these large-scale works on her studio practice in advance of an important solo show in 2016.
Jyll Bradley has been commissioned to make a major public realm work for a new hotel in Cambridge as part of the CB1 Developments. The commission will be unveiled in 2017.
Jyll Bradley has been commissioned to make Green/Shade a large-scale work for the garden of an innovative social housing development in Hull. The work is inspired by local poet Andrew Marvell and will be unveiled in 2017.
This book is published to coincide with the launch of Jyll Bradley’s major permanent art work Le Jardin hospitalier at Hopital Roger Salengro, CHRU, Lille, France. The book features many images of the work as well as an interview with the artist and Amanda Crabtree (director of Artconnexion, Lille) and an essay by Andrew Renton, Director of Marlborough Contemporary, London. It is designed by Anne Odling-Smee of O-SB Design, London and is intended as an integral part of the overall project rather than a document of it.
Available in the UK from L’étrangère: www.letrangere.net
Distributed in France by www.lespressesdureel.com
ISBN: 978-2-84066-786-5
80 pages
Jyll Bradley is participating in the Drawing Room Biennial 2015.
Featuring over 200 new and recent works on paper by established and emerging artists, Drawing Biennial 2015 offers fresh insights into the most exciting currents in contemporary art today. Artists have been selected by Drawing Room directors Mary Doyle, Kate Macfarlane and Katharine Stout, with additional nominations by a panel of leading international artists, museum directors, curators and collectors.
Please find more information at:
www.drawingroom.org.uk.
Jyll Bradley’s major permanent installation for Hôpital Roger Salengro, Lille was officially inaugurated on 16th April. The work is produced by artconnexion, Lille under the auspices of the Fondation de France ‘New Patrons’ programme. A book of the project is also out now with text by Andrew Renton, Director of Marlborough Contemporary.