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Walking A Cappella is a new book by Abigail Reynolds, co-published by Newlyn Art Gallery and Anomie, with text contributions by Joanna Kavenna, Hammad Nasar, and Sophie J.Williamson. The design draws on Reynolds book collection; each signature mirrors the paper stock and graphic design styles of historical books, acting as containers for images that document work and texts that run alongside her practice.
Reynolds’ is in two group exhibitions opening this April, Curtain Up! at The Lowry, Salford, where she is showing two collage works that depicting the Minack Theatre from her ongoing series The Universal Now. In the Drawing Biennial 2026 at The Drawing Room, London, Reynolds will be showing a new work Leftover (The White Tower): a void left in a book page excavated for use in a Universal Now collage.
In the studio Reynolds’ is working toward two public commissions; a window for the opening of the new museum for the Isles of Scilly and a sculpture for Tremenheere Sculpture Garden which will be unveiled on 26th September.
PERMENTLY INSTALLED
In Spring 2025, Reynolds’ sculpture Trilobite joined over 90 sculptures in the Yorkshire Sculpture Park. Originally commissioned for Chatsworth, Trilobite is from the series Anthronauts which invites visitors to see in a non-human way. The curved corten steel sculpture is pierced with 120 glass lenses of various focal lengths. This work echoes how the trilobite, an extinct marine animal with turret eyes, viewed its surroundings.
In 2024, Reynolds completed a permanent commission Gregorian for Hospital Rooms at Longreach Psychiatric Unit in Redruth.
Her permanent commission Tre (2022) can be seen in the great library window at Kresen Kernow, the Cornish archive. She talks about her approach to making Tre in this YouTube video. Other permanently installed works in public spaces can be seen at Rambert HQ Southbank where Mim is in the foyer, and at The Box Plymouth, her Elliptical Reading Window remains in situ.