Grace Thompson is an artist and designer who creates devotional objects and garments that act as possible answers to long-form research projects. She currently works between metal, glass, textiles and movement practises.
Exploring dialogue between her works and their imagined places of origin, her practice overlays pre-existing and imagined locations. These facilitate the creation of 'sacred' objects as well as methods by which they are first activated and then maintained. The resultant pieces are labour intensive and involve repetitive, devoted work where something fundamental might be exchanged; from person, to object and back again, through hand touch and time spent together.
Surveying intersections of time and dimension and the mirror line between the surface world and the underland, her work follows multi-layered histories of land. Imagining the ground as a record or waiting room for detritus past, she surveys thresholds and holding spaces. What keeps these spaces from one another and links them, what is inserted to ensure they remain distinct and parted? Ultimately asking, by what means space and object might interrelate and mutually express one another.
Materially these objects should invite worship, longing and reverence, communicating inherited care and primal urges.