Flotsam and Jetsam
Eloise Hendy, Plinth
November 2022
Seeds, teabags, broad beans and twine. Hairnets and vegetable nets and plastic bottles bundled into plastic webbing, tightly tied in thread. Veronica Ryan’s solo exhibition at Alison Jacques gallery is an explosion of materiality — if an explosion could somehow still be meticulously ordered. Entering the gallery space feels almost like walking along a beachfront littered with flotsam, jetsam and resurfaced fishing scraps; almost like stumbling onto the site of an elaborate ritual practice. […]