in·ter·play: the way in which two or more things have an effect on each other.
This exhibition explores how time and material affect one another. In the practices of Richelle Greabeiel and Sarah Delaney, material is akin to language: telling a story, and highlighting their use of time, as both a medium and a tool. Time is embedded into the very fabric of their construction. Through deliberate assembly, repetition, and process, their works become vessels of memory -- each piece recording experience and honouring the history of its making. By embracing slow and small gesture, Richelle and Sarah underscore the significance of materiality and the quiet power of accumulated action.
Sarah’s practice is grounded in phenomenology, interlacing memory and sensory response. In essence, her paintings are her personal voice and a poetic response to the world around: emotional terrains, shaped by time, place, and the quiet rhythms of life. Rooted in the exploration of materiality, each painting begins as fluid washes of pigment, rivers traversing the horizontal surface, mapping the topographical indentations of the naturally sloping studio floor and the fold lines within the canvas. These dips, seams, and gravitational pulls reveal the distinctive properties of the material and the journey it undertakes. Entire worlds emerge. Layered markings from handheld media — crayon, pastel, embroidery — extend this dialogue, while recording the passage of time. For Sarah, time is not linear but internal and qualitative— a central medium in her work. Her practice invites grounded introspection and carries a meditative quality, offering stillness amidst a spinning world. The paintings open pathways without end, inviting viewers to drift along currents of thought that exist at once in the present and the past. These imagined landscapes evoke both a quiet sense of place and kindle the living pulse of nature.
