Projects Kavel Rafferty

Opening times Thursday to Monday: 11:00 to 17:00

Tuesday 22nd September: 11:00 to 14:00

The exhibition weaver presents the large scale textile installation Princess Pyramid alongside related developmental and contextual works - smaller textile pieces and drawings on paper and cloth.

Beginning from an auto-ethnographic position, the installation Princess Pyramid extends beyond personal experience to consider a universal human connection. We all have a mother, whether we know her or not, whether the relationship is close or difficult. The real or imagined relationship occupies profound psychological space.

The photograph, taken in the late 1960s, places Goldsmith’s mother at its centre, surrounded by female family members—mothers across generations. Goldsmith appears as a small child seated on the floor to the right.

Now, as a grown woman, Goldsmith enters into a posthumous conversation with her late mother, attempting to bridge the distance between then and now, not knowing and knowing.

In this process of questioning and searching, an umbilical cord was extended across the planet and now through metaphysical space, connecting past and present, absence and presence.

Throughout Shelly Goldsmith’s career she has drawn upon her working-class family history, heritage, and relationships, particularly the relationship with her mother.

- A limited-edition tote bag accompanies the exhibition and is available exclusively in the gallery. A 'cloth kit' version will be available on the website shop starting September 10th while supplies last.