Jyll Bradley @ Pi Artworks, London

Jyll Bradley’s exhibition, Within a Budding Grove, takes its title from the second volume of Proust’s, ‘In Search of Lost Time, which follows the protagonist’s adolescence and his increasing sense of self-awareness.  As a teenager, Jyll Bradley spent a lot of time sitting in her family’s greenhouse in rural Kent observing the play between sunlight and glass, a visual language that has remained integral to her work since the 1980s.  Presenting recent works across sculpture, photography, drawing and film, Bradley draws on the bold geometries of espaliers: agricultural structures developed to train and direct the growth of young plants such as fruit trees and hops so that their crops attain the maximum exposure to sun.