Running and Returning, The Box, Plymouth (2025)
Running and Returning
5 April – 2 November 2025
Running and Returning is a major survey show of Jyll Bradley’s rich career over 35 years of practice. Known for her large-scale public commissions such as The Hop (Hayward Gallery, 2022) and Green/Light (for M.R.) for the 2014 Folkestone Triennial, Running and Returning presents a new film and sculptural installations alongside works of historic significance. Seen together for the first time the exhibition reveals an intimate path of re-discovery and an invitation by the artist to enter her world. Bradley’s work examines identity, urbanity, queerness and community through a minimalist aesthetic, a process she calls ‘queering minimalism.’ Light as both material and metaphor runs throughout her work in the exhibition which includes her recent award-winning photographic self-portrait installation Within a Budding Grove, expanded from its original showing in Miami, U.S. Bradley was a pioneer of light box technology and the first British artist to use the light box. Her early light box installations are also on show in Running and Returning for the first time in 15 years.
theboxplymouth.com/events/exhibitions/jyll-bradley-running-and-returning
A fully illustrated monograph, Running and Returning is published by Kulturalis to time with the exhibition. This features leading writers and thinkers including Andrew Renton (Professor of Curating at Goldsmiths College), Nicoletta Lambertucci (Curator of British Art, Tate), Fatos Ustek (Curator of Frieze Sculpture), Ralph Rugoff (Director, Hayward Gallery).
amazon.co.uk/Jyll-Bradley-Running-Returning/dp/1836360096
Renowned documentary film-maker Jared Schiller has made a new film introducing Bradley and her work:
More exhibition links:
fadmagazine.com/2025/04/09/a-life-in-light-jyll-bradley-the-box-plymouth/
artlyst.com/features/ten-out-of-london-exhibitions-spring-2025/