Outfall
Bryony Gillard
⁠Gallery 2 at East Quay

⁠⁠We are delighted to announce Outfall, a new exhibition by Bryony Gillard, coming to East Quay this Autumn.

Exploring the hidden politics of wastewater, Outfall brings together layered narratives with immersive sound and moving image, turning our attention to the sensorial and often invisible materials carried through our pipes, sewers, bodies and waterways. ⁠⁠From leak-detection dogs trained to locate failures in sanitation systems, to plumbers navigating the physical realities of blocked drains, the work reveals wastewater as something more than a by-product — it is an archive holding traces of our lives, illness, pharmaceuticals, hormones and industrial residues.

⁠⁠Drawing on crip theory and lived experience of disability, Bryony's films explore the porous connections between waste, bodies and environment. Rather than framing wastewater simply as something to be flushed away or a problem to be fixed, Outfall invites us to consider how we might relate differently to the infrastructures that quietly shape our everyday lives.⁠⁠

About the artist
Bryony is a South West based artist and researcher working between writing, workshops, performance, moving image and exhibition making. Her practice reflects on events, states of being, materials and organisms that refuse or resist normative capitalist structures and temporalities. This might include thinking about grief, sickness, working with materials such as sewage and seaweed to explore elusive, messy and entangled in contemporary concerns.

⁠⁠Her work has been presented nationally and internationally including a commission with Focal Point Gallery (Southend), ESTUARY (Kent), Jerwood Arts (London), Playbill (Amsterdam), Ocean Archive by TBA21 (Venice), Tate St.Ives (Cornwall), and Turf Projects (Croydon). She has an MFA from the Dutch Art Institute and is a Lecturer in MA Fine Art at University of Gloucestershire.

Header image courtesy of the artist