THORNHILL gallery Cample Line have announced their 2025 exhibition programme.
Over the next few months they will be presenting work from Sayan Chanda, Lotte Gertz, Bryony Rose and Amalia Pica, alongside a year-round programming of screenings, workshops and a supporting engagement strand.
It starts with a solo show by Sayan Chanda from 22 March – 1 June. The London-based artist will display new and recent textile and ceramic works from across the various series – ‘Jomi’, ‘Bohurupee’, ‘Dieties’ and ‘Shapeshifters’ – that make up his wider body of work.
Chanda often draws upon the rituals he witnessed as a child and the living traditions with which he was surrounded when growing up in Kolkata, reimagining votive objects, folk narratives and indigenous rituals as hybrid ambiguous forms that function as totems, portals and talismans.
Lotte Gertz is on from 29 June – 31 August with a new body of work.
Gertz has lived and worked in Glasgow since graduating from the Glasgow School of Art in 2002, and has exhibited widely in Scotland and in Europe, most recently in Copenhagen in September 2024 with Mia Fryland.
In her practice, she uses drawing, painting, collage and assorted printing techniques, making layered, often complex works that play with forms and fragments at once familiar and yet hard to place. Previously she has worked on various types of unprimed fabric and linen, including Calico and silk, and more recently on Japanese papers.
Her exhibition for Cample will build upon recent work that she presented as part of the ‘Instalments’ series at Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh, and new work she is making as part of her RSA Residency for Scotland award (2024-25) at Edinburgh Printmakers.
Running at the same time will be Bryony Rose, with pieces that build upon her recent exhibitions, Blinking, glare (Quench Gallery, Margate, 2024) and Night Jar (Kiosk, Glasgow, 2023). In both shows, Rose presented groups of glazed tiled relief panels that draw upon her teenage memories of rural Dumfries and Galloway – of walking home along a narrow track or across the park as evening or night falls. Motifs recur: brambles, bindweeds, football pitches, flood lights, the beam of a car’s lights.
Bryony Rose graduated from the Glasgow School of Art graduating in 2015, where she received the W O Hutcheson Prize for Drawing. She was an associate artist of Open School East 2019.
Argentinian artist Amalia Pica will stage a solo exhibition, opening October 2025 and running until December.
Pica lives and works in London, and over the last 20 years, she has developed an expansive practice that investigates human modes of interaction, especially our desire to learn and to be understood as we try to make sense of, and negotiate, the world around us.
She began her career as a primary school art teacher, an experience that continually informs much of her work, and her recent solo exhibition in Tanya Bonakdar Gallery in New York – Aula Expandida – featured an interactive installation, sculptures, embroideries, and collages that explore how art, imagination, and language are connected, especially during the formative years of early childhood.
