Nick Grellier
Gravity : NIck grellier
Opening Times
13th-14th June 11am-5pm
20th-21st June 11am-5pm
Plus Wednesdays-Sundays throughout June, and by appointment.
Directions and Contact
Chapels of Rest, Stroud Cemetery, Bisley Road, Stroud, GL5 1HJ
07870 445043
Up Bisley Road, turn into cemetery and you will see the Chapels of Rest.
Nick Grellier
Nick Grellier presents GRAVITY, an exhibition of recent drawing, sculpture, text works and short film collaborations with Anna Cady.
While ‘gravity’ suggests a weighty seriousness to the work — bodies and objects in space tethered to the earth and its pull — there is a material and linguistic playfulness throughout Nick’s practice.
GRAVITY’s multidisciplinary works aim to address and counterbalance the weight of contemporary life. With an economy of visual language, Nick draws, constructs and reshapes ordinary domestic items, human detritus and parts of the body using low tech methods of making in resistance to the proliferation of digitisation, and to convey the use of humour as an essential tool for understanding personal experience and social structures, behaviours and hierarchies.
The objects, forms and materials in turn resonate with the essence of the Chapels of Rest which carry the imprint of previous lives passing through; traces of their purpose remain embedded in the buildings’ fabric. They hold a palpable duality — life and afterlife, the separate spaces for Nonconformist and Church of England worship — and their new identity as a place for arts and community in their elevated position overlooking Stroud.
The exhibition takes place across both Chapels from Wednesday to Sunday throughout June and is accompanied by a publication featuring writing by Paul Harper and Emily Lucas. There will be a walk and conversation with Angela Findlay on 23 June.
Nick Grellier