What Holds
Isobel Rayson
15 May - 20 June 2026
Sustained engagement anchors Isobel Rayson’s practice in time, grounding thought and attention. Through a process-led approach, each work evolves through repetitive gesture, layered mark-making, and accumulation, recording embodied time and care.
What Holds presents a new series of works by Rayson, including cast bronze sculptures, monochromatic drawings, a site-specific wall-based sculpture in paper raffia, and relief wood carvings.
Informed by observations of form, pattern, and texture in the natural world, the exhibition features recurring motifs of grids, nets, and protective forms. These structures establish frameworks within which gesture accumulates, allowing process to guide each work while maintaining a measured sense of order.
Quietly Adrift, 2025
Photo: Dorian Photographics
Selected works
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters(1)_2026
Relief wood carving
39cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm.
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (2)_2026
Relief wood carving
20.9cm x 14.1cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (3)_2026
Relief wood carving
29.6cm x 10.8cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (4)_2026
Relief wood carving
15.2cm x 13.5cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (5)_2026
Relief wood carving
29.5cm x 14.3cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (6)_2026
Relief wood carving
15cm x 13.4cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (7)_2026
Relief wood carving
29.7cm x 10.5cm x 1.9cm.
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (8)_2026
Relief wood carving
39.7cm x 10.7cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (9)_2026
Relief wood carving
24.4cm x 10.7cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (10)_2026
Relief wood carving
17.6cm x 12.8cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (11)_2026
Relief wood carving
35.7cm x 12.6cm x 1.9cm.jpg
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (12)_2026
Relief wood carving
17.6cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (13)_2026
Relief wood carving
17.6cm x 12.7cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (14)_2026
Relief wood carving
24.5cm x 11.6cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Small Encounters (15)_2026
Relief wood carving
15cm x 13.5cm x 1.9cm
Isobel Rayson
Tethered _2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Diptych_91cm x 71.5cm each
Isobel Rayson
Tethered (1 of 2)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Diptych_91cm x 71.5cm each
Isobel Rayson
Tethered (2 of 2)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Diptych_91cm x 71.5cm each
Isobel Rayson
Quietly Adrift (1 of 3)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Triptych_91cm x 71.5cm each.
Isobel Rayson
Quietly Adrift (2 of 3)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Triptych_91cm x 71.5cm each.
Isobel Rayson
Quietly Adrift (3 of 3)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
Triptych_91cm x 71.5cm each.
Isobel Rayson
Held (1)_2026
Bronze
24cm x 6.5cm x 7cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (2)_2026
Bronze
25.5cm x 9.5cm x 10cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (3)_2026
Bronze
25cm x 6.5cm x 7.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (4)_2026
Bronze
25cm x 8cm x 6.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (5)_2026
Bronze
23cm x 7cm x 9.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (6)_2026
Bronze
4.5cm x 6cm x 8.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (7)_2026
Bronze
25cm x 8cm x 6.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (8)_2026
Bronze
24cm x 9.5cm x 11cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (9)_2026
Bronze
26cm x 7.5cm x 8cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (10)_2026
Bronze
30cm x 11.5cm x 11cm
Isobel Rayson
Held (11)_2026
Bronze
31cm x 10cm x 11cm
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (1)_2026
Bronze
16cm x 13.5cm x 8.7cm, edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (2)_2026
Bronze
18cm x 15.2cm x 10.7cm, edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (3)_2026
Bronze
13.9cm x 11cm x 6.3cm, edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (4)_2026
Bronze
16cm x 13cm x 8.5cm, edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (2)_2026
Bronze
18.2cm x 15cm x 10.7cm, edition 2/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (5)_2026
Bronze
14.5cm x 11.7cm x 6.2cm, edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (1)_2026
Bronze
16.3cm x 13.5cm x 8.7cm, edition 2/5
Isobel Rayson
Anchored (6)_2026
Bronze
14.2cm x 11.7cm x 8.7cm edition 1/5
Isobel Rayson
Settle_2026
Relief wood carving
31.8cm x 42.1cm
Isobel Rayson
Linger_2026
Relief wood carving
31.8cm x 42.1cm
Isobel Rayson
Rest_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
91cm x 72cm
Isobel Rayson
Enclosed_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
89.5cm x 70.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Suspended (1)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
91cm x 71.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Suspended (2)_2025
Pigma Micron pen and black Indian ink on 300gsm Arches watercolour paper
91cm x 71.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Fade_2026
Relief wood carving
62.4cm x 52.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Veil_2026
Relief wood carving
62.4cm x 52.5cm
Isobel Rayson
Exhale_2026
Relief wood carving
42.3cm x 42.3cm
Isobel Rayson
Whisper_2026
Relief wood carving
42.3cm x 42.3cm
Isobel Rayson
Tender_2026
Relief wood carving
42.3cm x 42.3cm