Exhibition Opening: GR'AFT

GR'AFT
a solo show by Lynda Draper
6 Aug to 25 Oct
Canberra Glassworks

GR’AFT draws on the ancient practice of grafting,  the joining of separate living forms to create new growth, as both process and metaphor.

Developed during a 2024 residency at Canberra Glassworks, this body of work brings together glass, ceramics, and bronze through collaborations with skilled artisans, including the Canberra Glassworks team guided by Annette Blair and Spike Deane, and Nick Stanks of Carwoola Casting. The sculptures emerged through the grafting of materials, environments, technical knowledge, and collaborative processes.

The works also reconnect with the visual language that shaped Lynda Draper’s  ceramic practice in the 1990s: a restrained palette, surfaces recalling wax, confectionery, and icing, and recurring biomorphic and funnel-like forms that evoke growth, vitality, and continual transformation. Through these tactile, hybrid sculptures, Draper explores how collaboration, material exchange, and layered histories give rise to objects that seem to possess a life of their own. 

Opening:
22nd August 2026
4pm
Main Gallery, Canberra Glassworks
11 Wentworth Ave, Kingston ACT 2604, Australia

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