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Last Thursday at the Barn: studio doors were open, a long table set in our dining room, and a day spent walking a small group of collectors, curators, and friends through the studios and the 15 acres of grounds of Matt Black Barn.

Welcoming guests in, Andrew put it simply: "It always takes a moment to land." That's exactly what these visits are for — time to slow down, look closely at work in progress, share a lunch together, and talk about where and how our vision is evolving, all set in the landscape that shapes it.

Grateful, as ever, for the company and the conversation.

#StudioLife #ContemporarySculpture #MattBlackBarn #LauraFord #AndrewSabin

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Delighted to visit Kate MacGarry’s pop-up gallery in Rye on Friday, with a exquisite show ‘The Air of Ideas’ 🌊✨ It followed our visits to Towner Gallery Eastbourne, where Cecilia Fiona has brilliant new work in her solo exhibition, ‘Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing’ 🌀💫 and in Hastings at Hastings Contemporary where there’s a great ‘Moore / Freud’ pairing, and lunch with George at Amici studio 💭💙

A really enjoyable art jaunt along the long coastline, from West to East Sussex, in great company with Andrew and Laura. Following another studio visit and lunch hosted at Matt Black Barn on Thursday.

Only wish I’d brought my swimming costume for a dip in the lake, and sea along the way!

📷 1 - 4 Kate MacGarry, Rye, East Sussex
2 - Rose Finn-Kelcey, The Restless Image: a discrepancy between the same position and the felt position, 1975

📷 5-7 Bruce Bernard, Lucian Freud Posing as a Henry Moore, 1983. Henry Moore, Shelter Drawing (Mother and Child with Reclining Figures), 1941 Hastings Contemporary. Andrew and Laura on the seafront, Hastings, East Sussex

📷 8-9 Cecilia Fiona, Spirals Gathering, Time Breathing, 2026. Ithell Colquhoun, Dance of the Nine Opals, 1942, Towner Gallery Eastbourne, East Sussex

📷 10-12 Matt Black Barn, West Sussex

#sussex #katemacgarry #hastingscontemporary #townergallery #mattblackbarn @katemacgarry @rosefinnkelcey @hastings.contemporary @kathleen.soriano @amici__art @townergallery @cecilia_fiona @noelle_collins_insta @mattblackbarn @andrewsabinsculpture @laura_ford_sculptur

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I'm still so overwhelmed and thrilled by the love and support at my solo show opening last week! Wow what a journey ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨ ✨
REVIVER @thearthouseuk and ROTATOR @yspsculpture are on view throughout the summer, and I'll be posting more images soon. But for now I want to thank everyone who visited and helped make the opening such a special occasion! ❤️

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Thanks to everyone who came to see “Halfway to the Sun”, which was on show at Somers Gallery until yesterday. The exhibition showcased a prototype of David Rickard’s proposed public art installation curated by Climate Art. David and I have been working on this site-specific project for over three years, and seeing the true enthusiasm and joy from the residents of Somers Town and everyone else who saw the show meant a lot.
We are fundraising for this innovative public art commission, so do get in touch if yo want to get involved. Huge thanks to AKT II, Camden Council, Euston Town Bid, Transition, and Maylim for making this exhibition a reality.

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Join us for the opening of “Halfway to the Sun” at @somersgallery on Thursday, 5 February, 6-9pm.

The exhibition will showcase David Rickard’s forthcoming public art installation curated by Climate Art. Exploring how polluting systems can be reimagined, the installation responds to the pressing air quality issues in Somers Town.

Thanks to @wemakecamden @eustontown @akt_ii Transition VC and @maylimltd for the generous support.

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So honoured to have curated @jyll.bradley’s exhibition 'Hot Frame' at @piartworksistanbul! Thank you to the team for installing in my absence and for all your support: @edaderala, @ladypiartworks, @erinc.anarres and @ecezerenaydinoglu.

Many of you will know that Jyll and I have been working together on various projects for over four years now. It has been the most amazing experience for me. Jyll’s generosity and belief in me have led directly and indirectly to work trips to New York, Istanbul, rural France, Folkestone, Milton Keynes, and probably other places besides. I’ve got to curate exhibitions, give talks, write articles, and even edit a book. I’ve got to know Jyll’s incredible practice and be part of a very exciting period in her career. Not everyone would invest so much in someone still at the beginning of their career (when we met I’d just started as Curatorial Assistant at the @hayward.gallery) and I am so incredibly grateful. Thank you, Jyll! I look forward to continuing to collaborate in years to come

I’ll share more details about the exhibition soon, but for now please enjoy this journey down memory lane.

List of images:
1. 'Hot Frame' in Istanbul, Nov 2025. Photography by Hadiye Cangokce.
2. First visit to Jyll’s studio, Nov 2021.
3. In 'The Hop', May 2022.
4. Excerpt from ‘Notes on Growth’, Sep 2022.
5. In conversation in New York, Mar 2023.
6. At the framers, Aug 2023.
7. Installing ‘Within a Budding Grove’ at Pi Artworks, Sep 2023.
8. Opening of 'Within a Budding Grove' at Pi Artworks, Sep 2023.
9. Celebrating ‘Running and Returning’ at The Box, Plymouth, with Darryl and Claire, Apr 2025.
10. With Erinç and Ece at Pi Artworks, Istanbul, Sep 2025.

#JyllBradley #PiArtworks

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✨📚 We’re excited to shine a spotlight on “Running and Returning” – the first comprehensive monograph dedicated to internationally acclaimed artist and writer @jyll.bradley, edited by @debbiemeniru and @darryl_de_prez and designed by @daly_lyon.

Spanning more than four decades, Bradley’s practice moves fluidly between photography, film, writing, performance, sculpture and her celebrated large-scale public installations. A pioneer in the artistic use of commercial lightbox technology, she transforms minimalist, industrial forms into radiant spaces of identity, memory, spirituality and community, as seen in landmark works such as Green/Light (for M.R.) for the Folkestone Triennial, Dutch/Light at Turner Contemporary, and The Hop at the Hayward Gallery.

“Running and Returning”, published by Kulturalis earlier this year, brings this remarkable journey to the page in a richly illustrated volume featuring essays and reflections from leading voices in contemporary art and literature. Contributors include @rugoffralph, @nicolettalambertucci, @annaclynecomposer, @noreen_masud, Victoria Pomery, @fatosustek and more, making this an essential resource for anyone interested in contemporary art, sculpture and interdisciplinary practice 🎨📖

✨ Running and Returning is available now via @accartbooks_

#Kulturalis #JyllBradley #ContemporaryArt #LightArt #PublicArt #ArtPublishing #artbookspublishing #CulturalPublishing #PublishingForCulture

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One of my favourite things I've got to do over the last few years is commissioning writers whose work I love so that I get to read more of it!

As co-editor of Jyll Bradley’s monograph ‘Running and Returning’, I was able to invite several contributors to write about Jyll’s work. Two brilliant examples are @noreen_masud and @abipalmer_bot

Noreen Masud responded to ‘Green/Light for M.R.’., a public artwork installed in Folkestone for 9 years. I originally read Noreen’s writing in the Guardian — a piece about her love for flat landscapes. I was captivated by the depth of meaning, and the beauty, she brought out from the simple geometry of a horizontal line. Jyll has often spoken about the ‘verticality’ of her public sculptures, and I was really intrigued about how Noreen might respond to them. The text she wrote brings together Jyll’s work with the words of Robert Hass and ‘The Waves’ by Virgina Woolf

Abi Palmer responded to ‘Greenhouse Disappearing into Night’, an early watercolour Jyll made in her family’s greenhouse. The idea of being stuck inside and looking out seemed to resonate with Abi’s beautiful film ‘Abi Palmer Invents the Weather’ which I saw as part of @new_contemporaties at @camdenartcentre. I loved the script for the film and was really excited when Abi agreed to write for Jyll’s book. The short story she wrote echoes the feeling of wanting to create a safe haven for yourself as a teenager.

These are just two of so many great texts in the book. It contains brilliant essays by @nicolettalambertucci @gemmarollsbentley @fatosustek and @andrew.renton and other wonderful contributions from @goldwaterhelena @adesola_akinleye @rugoffralph Melanie Kress, Victoria Pomery and Blair Todd.

Most of the images in this post are from: 'Running and Returning’, Jyll’s survey show at @theboxplymouth which closes on 2 November.

@jyll.bradley
Design by @daly_lyon
Co-edited by me and @darryl_de_prez

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The Festival. #artcollectorsofnewyork #artcollectorsofinstagram #artcollectorsanddealers #artcollectorsoftheworld #artthatinspiresyou #artthatinspires #artthatinspiresthought #artthatinspireschange #artthatinspiresus #artlovers❤️ #artloversusa

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Join us to celebrate the launch of Jyll Bradley’s new monograph and her solo show at THE BOX, Plymouth.
In conversation:
Jyll Bradley & Debbie Meniru

Tuesday 10 June, 6:30 pm

📍Pi Artworks London
55 Eastcastle Street,
W1W 8EG, London

RSVP: jade@piartworks.com

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Jyll Bradley: Running & Returning, published by Kulturalis on the occasion of a major exhibition of the artist’s career at The Box, Plymouth.

Running and Returning is the first comprehensive monograph of internationally acclaimed artist Jyll Bradley, whose diverse practice spans over four decades and encompasses photography, film, writing, performance, sculpture and large-scale public installations. A pioneer of adopting commercial lightbox technology in art, Bradley is renowned for her use of minimalist, industrial forms as spaces for exploring identity, spirituality and community. Her ambitious public realm artworks, such as Green/Light (for M.R.) (Folkestone Triennial), Dutch/Light (Turner Contemporary) and The Hop (Hayward Gallery), reflect her innovative approach to sculpture as a potent gathering place of people and ideas.

With contributions from Adesola Akinleye, Anna Clyne, Helena Goldwater, Melanie Kress, Nicoletta Lambertucci, Noreen Masud, Debbie Meniru, Abi Palmer, Victoria Pomery, Professor Andrew Renton, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Ralph Rugoff, Blair Todd, Fatoş Üstek, and David Ward.

Project manager: Darryl de Prez. Edited by Debbie Meniru and Darryl de Prez. Editorial manager and copy-editor: Linda Schofield.

Repro by Opero. Printed in Italy by Lito Terrazzi.

192 pp hardback, 216 × 292 mm, printed full colour throughout with a neon Pantone overprinted on the cover.

Fonts: Reformat A Regular by S M Foundry; Marist Book by Dinamo / Seb McLauchlan

@jyll.bradley @theboxplymouth @kulturalis_ @darryl_de_prez @debbiemeniru @adesola_akinleye @annaclynecomposer @nicolettalambertucci @noreen_masud @abipalmer_bot @andrew.renton @gemmarollsbentley @rugoffralph @blair_in_a_field @fatosustek @sm.foundry @abcdinamo @seb.mclauchlan #jyllbradley #bookdesign #contemporaryart #britishart #runningandreturning

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💬 “We don’t just collect objects—we collect stories, relationships, and ideas.”

On this week’s episode of Extraordinary Creatives, collectors Darryl de Prez and Victoria Thomas share how their collection is shaped by deep conversations with artists and a willingness to embrace the unknown.
From discovering emerging artists at graduate shows to rearranging their home as a constantly shifting exhibition, they challenge traditional ideas of collecting.

🔎 How do collectors make decisions? What role does risk play in their choices? And how can artists better connect with collectors? Find out in this insightful conversation.

🎧 Listen now: link in bio.

#LivingWithArt #ArtWorld #ExtraordinaryCreatives

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