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. 

WYRD will be exhibited in the Ballroom Gallery (10 May–28 September)

Warm Inside will be on view in the Lower Steadings (10 May–27 July).

Jonathan Baldock working on Warm Inside, 2021. Photo © Leon Foggit