The 9 Exhibitions to See around the world in April 2026
Fi Churchman, ArtReview
March 2026
In Veronica Ryan’s work, which spans textile, sculpture and works on paper, materials operate as carriers of lived and inherited experience, where distinctions between object and meaning are deliberately unsettled. Seeds, nets and vessels recur as forms that suggest conditions of confinement and the possibility of growth, and at the same time, recall states of protection and precariousness. These motifs are not symbolic in a fixed sense but are activated through Ryan’s handling of matter: binding, stitching and clustering become gestures that register care as much as constraint.