EXHIBITION: HAYDN ALBROW - MOVE LIKE LAVA

‘Move like lava’ sees Albrow delving deeper into her connection with the dreamed world, tearing the thin veil between reality and reverie, with fantastical threads drawing together to create distorted and fragmented stories. This collision manifests as a bizarre and unlikely mash up of objects and architecture that flow in and out of different scenes, patterns and moments, with no obvious rhyme or reason. Just like our individual dreams, the works have no care for coherent narrative, laws of physics or understanding. ‘Move like lava’ sees Albrow introducing the dreamer into the dream, colliding the figurative into a visceral, metaphysical self-portrait of the artist through the lens of her often confused and anxious subconscious. Through the dense, rich texture of cut-pile textiles, the images are enshrouded in wool but reveal themselves in sharp relief when viewed from a distance, while cutouts suggest a portal into a deeper-yet layer of the mind. The show is a playful, immersive experience that invites the audience into the mind of the artist and encourages the viewer to recall snapshots of their own dream worlds.

Haydn Albrow (b.1993, London) is a London based artist whose practice explores tangible and textural works spanning across multiple platforms including sculpture, installations, poetry and sound. Her work is inspired by dreams, language and the ways in which we interpret the two. Using recurring motifs throughout her work including teeth and body parts, Albrow’s practice straddles the grotesque and humorous. Albrow’s work addresses themes of the conscious and unconscious mind; thinking of our brain as a machine that manipulates and interprets memories, language and dreams into sensical thoughts. In particular their work explores the ways we attempt to share our dreamed experiences and the difficulties we face in conveying their ephemeral sensations and sentiments. There are gaps in our language that cause us to struggle to articulate these unique and deeply personal experiences and the artist tries to use physical materials to create a new form of dialogue for when words fail us. haydnalbrow.co.uk 

Location: The Art Space, Cass Art Glasgow

Dates: Saturday 21st June - Wednesday 2nd July 2025

Admission: FREE

This exhibition has step-free access.