Castor is pleased to present Claire Baily’s third solo presentation with the gallery titled Terra Incognita. Baily takes us on an explorative & deeply personal journey into the dark and un-mappable terrain of the human heart. Using the largely unknown landscape of the world beneath our feet as a lense through which to explore this unshapely lump the size of a fist, she asks; What lies there in it’s murky depths where the light does not reach? Where matter lies in moisture? Fathomed nonlinearly, as a sequence of philosophical ruminations, the works host a network of invisible connections and traces...
Castor is pleased to present Claire Baily’s third solo presentation with the gallery titled Terra Incognita.
Baily takes us on an explorative & deeply personal journey into the dark and un-mappable terrain of the human heart. Using the largely unknown landscape of the world beneath our feet as a lense through which to explore this unshapely lump the size of a fist, she asks; What lies there in it’s murky depths where the light does not reach? Where matter lies in moisture?
Fathomed nonlinearly, as a sequence of philosophical ruminations, the works host a network of invisible connections and traces exploring those topics that are not so easy to see. Those of loss, grief, love, truth, identity, purpose, meaning, age and womanhood.
Baily’s wide reaching lexicon of sculptural processes and materials is expanded further still with Terra Incognita. Here Baily shifts from the single plains of wall based sculpture into an ‘in the round’ way of thinking, taking her practice into a dynamic new direction.
Recognisable element of the human form are sampled and repurposed as if assembled by an unknowing hand; art objects, cartography and archaeological remnants combine into a bold and honest study of self.
