Jonathan Baldock

Warm Inside

Warm Inside is hung in the Lower Steadings Gallery.

An evocative installation of twelve hanging sculptures commissioned by Accelerator, Stockholm, in 2021. This group of life-sized cocoons house and protect bodies on the brink of metamorphosis. Hand-spun wool,plant-dyed fibres and intricately woven baskets comprise the works, with ceramic hands, feet and masks within. Some of the works hold dried lavender, a plant used as a sedative, preservative and protection against infection and in burial rites for hundreds of years. The sculptures evoke both the womb and tomb as structures that surround, protect and embalm,marking both a beginning and an end.

At Jupiter Artland WYRD and Warm Inside are bodies of work connected by transformation, embodiment and myth.