Louis Grant’s new sculptures stage glass and found materials in intimate tableaux exploring queer embodiment and relations of support.
Louis Grant presents a collection of new sculptures that brings together blown glass forms, textiles and reclaimed materials in staged sculptural arrangements. Forms hold, lean, rest and support one another, creating scenarios of connection, reliance and transformation. Grant approaches glass as both material and metaphor: unstable, fluid, resistant to fixed form and deeply connected to queer embodiment. Across these works, abstraction becomes a way to hold feeling, memory and nonlinear experiences of time.
“Glass is never completely stable. I’m drawn to that instability as a way of thinking about queer bodies, relationships and experience: how things hold together, resist pressure and depend on one another.”
Louis Grant
About the Artist
Louis Grant is an Australian artist working across glass, sculpture and installation. His practice explores material instability, queerness, connection and transformation, often extending glass into dialogue with textiles, reclaimed materials and spatial arrangements that emphasise tension, support and interdependence.
Presented by SABBIA
About Installations
Installations presents ambitious contemporary art throughout Carriageworks, and for the first time, extends into the city. The program of 14 projects features sculpture, textiles, painting, photography, kinetic forms, and public interventions, with works that are generous and immediate but also ask us to look more closely at the social, ecological, and cultural systems shaping our world.
Artists use spectacle, material invention and public address to explore some of the defining questions of contemporary life: how histories inhabit place, how images circulate, how materials carry memory, and how audiences gather, move, participate and reflect. Installations is curated by José Da Silva, Director of UNSW Galleries.
