Gravity

Grellier creates sculptural assemblages, drawings, text works and short films (with filmmaker Anna Cady) with everyday materials such as blankets, builders’ gloves, found papers, medication, and human hair and teeth. Closely tied to the body, her work uses human detritus as tools, templates, and objects alongside methods of collecting, repetition, and play. Alert to the absurd, Grellier interrogates themes of social hierarchy, grief, illness, shame, love, and tenderness while challenging ideas of value and importance. In this solo exhibition the weighty notion of physical and linguistic gravity is counterbalanced by the perspective shift brought about through humour or levity.

Grellier has previously staged two collaborative installations in the historic Chapels of Rest. The Chapels, marking the threshold between life and afterlife and publicly inaccessible for many years, are under sensitive renovation by Stroud Preservation Trust.