30/05/2026
FINAL DAY
CAITLIN YARDLEY - ‘Relational Painting’
Visit to revel in the materiality of assembled, stitched, folded, wrapped, tucked goat leather and cut metal. Where pattern and edges disrupt the formality of the field and become object.
YARDLEY states:
“Goat leather is not just a surface, it has memory and a grain. When you quilt with it,
you become aware that it is both tough and tender. It holds light in a particular way – it
is matte but not lifeless. It also retains the fact of having once been a body. This brings
something intense and deliberate to working with it. I have thought of goat leather as a
material link to peripheral vision for many years – informed by the goat’s unusually wide field of vision. This idea acknowledges that the connection between things is not always obvious, or even real, but becomes real because I am holding both in view at once.
Many of my projects are built on this, through proximity or through the collision between
one history and another.”
Image 1: External view
Image 2: ‘Relational Painting No. 30’, 2026
quilted aniline goat leather
30 x30 x4cm
📷 Courtesy MOORE CONTEMPORARY
