Jyll Bradley: Running and Returning

by Jyll Bradley (Contribution by), Debbie Meniru (Contribution by), Darryl Prez (Contribution by)

Overview

• First monograph on this acclaimed artist

• Contributions from key personnel in contemporary art and literature

• New insights into the life and work of artist

• Accompanies a major exhibition at The Box, Plymouth

First comprehensive monograph of internationally renowned artist Jyll Bradley, featuring all aspects of her work from the 1980s to the present day, including early sketchbooks, lightboxes, photography, film, wall-based sculpture, drawings and large-scale public installations, each covered thematically by a range of diverse and exciting voices in contemporary art and literature. A pioneer of using early lightbox technology to create sculptural installations, Bradley’s works are notable for their use of minimalist, industrial forms as spaces for exploring identity and place. Her ambitious public realm artworks, such as Green/Light (for M.R.) (Folkestone Triennial), Dutch/Light (Turner Contemporary) and The Hop (Hayward Gallery), reflect her innovative approach to sculpture as a potent gathering place of people and ideas. Published to coincide with Bradley’s major survey show at The Box, Plymouth, in April 2025, this book will provide an important resource for those familiar with Bradley’s work, while introducing her to new audiences in an accessible, engaging and imaginative way.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781836360094
Publisher:	Kulturalis
Publication date:	06/24/2025
Pages:	192
Product dimensions:	8.70(w) x 11.70(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

“With contributions from Adesola Akinleye, Jyll Bradley, Bill Gee, Melanie Kress, Nicoletta Lambertucci, Noreen Masud, Abi Palmer, Victoria Pomery, Andrew Renton, Gemma Rolls-Bentley, Ralph Rugoff, Blair Todd, Fatos Üstek, David Ward
 
Jyll Bradley (author and co-editor) is an internationally acclaimed artist and writer. Born in Folkestone in 1966, Bradley studied at Goldsmiths, University of London and Slade School of Art. She has exhibited internationally, with major public installations including the Hayward Gallery, London (2022); The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (2021); Sculpture in the City, London (2020); and the Folkestone Triennial, Kent (2014).
 
Debbie Meniru (co-editor) is a writer and curator whose work explores the melding of fact and fiction in both art and text. She is Assistant Curator, Interpretation, at Tate Modern and Tate Britain, London.
 
Darryl de Prez (co-editor) is a consultant on philanthropy and the arts, with over thirty years' experience in the art world. He is also a published writer and contemporary art collector.
 
Adesola Akinleye (author) is an artist-scholar and choreographer whose work encompasses live performance, film, installation and text. They founded and are Co-Artistic Director of DancingStrong Movement Lab.
 
Anna Clyne (contributor) is a Grammy-nominated composer, named by Bachtrack as one of the top ten most performed contemporary composers in the world and the most performed living female British composer in both 2022 and 2023.
 
Helena Goldwater (author) makes performance art and paintings. Her work has been shown internationally, including at Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona; de Appel, Amsterdam; Tate Britain, London; Tate Liverpool; and as part of Venice International Performance Art Week.
 
Melanie Kress (author) is a curator and writer based in New York. She is Senior Curator at Public Art Fund and was previously Assistant Curator of High Line Art.
 
Nicoletta Lambertucci (author) is Curator, Modern and Contemporary British Art at Tate Britain. She was the inaugural Contemporary Art Curator at The Box, Plymouth, from 2017 to 2023, and curated the Serbian Pavilion for the Venice Biennale in 2019.
 
Noreen Masud (author) is a lecturer in twentieth-century literature at the University of Bristol. Her memoir A Flat Place (2023) was shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Non-Fiction, the Jhalak Prize, the Ondaatje Prize and the Young Writer of the Year Award.
 
Abi Palmer (author) is an artist, writer and film-maker exploring the relationship between linguistic and physical communication.
 
Victoria Pomery (author) has been CEO of The Box since October 2021. The Box, Plymouth's new museum, gallery and archive, opened in autumn 2020. Prior to this, Pomery was the founding Director of Turner Contemporary in Margate.
 
Professor Andrew Renton (author) is a writer and curator. He is Professor of Curating at Goldsmiths, University of London.
 
Gemma Rolls-Bentley (author) is a curator, writer and consultant. Her most recent publication is Queer Art: From Canvas to Club and the Spaces Between (2024).
 
Ralph Rugoff (author) has been Director of the Hayward Gallery, London, since 2006. He was the Curator and Artistic Director of the 2019 Venice Biennale, and Curator of the Biennale de Lyon in 2015.
 
Blair Todd (author) is a curator and writer, currently based in Oxfordshire. He is interested in exploring alternative models of learning, with residencies and other platforms for experimentation, bringing people together, to be poetic, to be useful.
 
Fatos Üstek (author) is an independent curator and writer working internationally. She is Co-founder and Managing Director of FRANK Fair Artist Pay, Curator of Frieze Sculpture (London) and author of The Art Institution of Tomorrow: Reinventing the Model (2023).
 
David Ward (contributor) is known for his work in light- and time-based media including photography, film, sound and performance. He is represented in collections including Tate, London; National Portrait Gallery, London; and the Fogg Museum at Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA.”
 
 

Table of Contents

- Introduction by Victoria Pomery - Naming Places (for J.B.) Jyll Bradley by Andrew Renton - Light for Creation by Nicoletta Lambertucci - Queering Minimalism by Gemma Rolls-Bentley - Sculpture of the More by Fatoş Üstek - Dutch Light, a film script by David Ward - Short Reflections on Jyll Bradley’s Works by Adesola Akinleye, Helena Goldwater, Melanie Kress, Noreen Masud, Abi Palmer, Ralph Rugoff and Blair Todd - Woman Holding a Balance: Script by David Ward / Score by Anna Clyne - M.R.: Script for the Film by Jyll Bradley - On the Playing Fields of Her Rejection: Extract from the Play by Jyll Bradley - Gardening in the Galápagos by Jyll Bradley - Jyll Bradley and Debbie Meniru in Conversation - Chronology of Bradley’s Career