end to end
Louis Grant
showing 5 Feb to 26 Apr 2026
Main Gallery | curated by Consuelo Cavaniglia
soft / holding / support / longing / reclaim / return /
repeat / double / open / imagined / fluid / desire / still /
present / absent / hard / touch / movement / stage / each moment
In this exhibition of new work Louis Grant draws on formalist principles of shape, scale, colour and composition to create a series of sculptural scenarios that use the language of materials to speak of connection, reliance and resistance between forms. In the works, glass’s inherent instability -its disorganised particles and resistance to fixed form- serves as a powerful metaphor for fluidity and queer embodiment. In connected installations across the gallery spaces, Grant presents forms of ‘staging’, activating the performativity of glass.
Pumpkins (forever linked with ideas of transformation), and other forms, recur like a refrain throughout the installations. In each encounter we see them adopt shifting roles, holding or being held, and appearing at various stages of production, from polished glass to cast wax positives. Interrupting the progression of production at different moments both disrupts the expected linear timeline of making and proposes a state of continual becoming. Within the work, nothing remains fixed and no hierarchies – between materials, scales, or forms- are imposed. Across each installation, dynamic relationships between forms unfold, and the exhibition invites us to consider how these shifting connections, shaped through modularity, materiality, and malleability, actively articulate presence and possibility.
Related Events:
Opening event Sat 21 February 2026 at 4pm
Gallery talk Sat 21 February 2026 at 2pm
Exhibition Catalogue
Available printed instore as well as online

