Tuning In: Vibrations, Frequencies and Harmonies

22 – 27 September 2026

22 6-8pm 23-27 11am-5.30pm

GPS Gallery, 36 Great Pulteney Street, Soho, W1F 9NS

Tuning In brings together Paola Bay, Cecilia Charlton and Amy Grantham, three contemporary artists whose work explores the unseen forces, energies and connections that shape our experience of the world. From subtle vibrations and energetic patterns to cosmic rhythms and intuitive visions of sound, the artists offer different ways of sensing, interpreting and connecting with the universe around us.

Their work is grounded in an affinity with the materials they use. Precious metals, stone, paper, wood, fibres, pastel, paint and ink are not simply tools for depiction, but active materials that participate in the processes of exploration, discovery and knowledge. Their physical qualities and histories can carry traces, resonances and meanings that extend beyond what can be seen.

Here, matter becomes a medium through which the immaterial may be sensed. The artists develop responsive relationships with their materials, working through intuition, perception and a heightened awareness of vibration, frequency and harmony. The resulting works occupy a space between the physical and the metaphysical, the earthly and the otherworldly.

Tuning In invites us to become more receptive to these subtle states of sensing and responding. Rather than offering fixed explanations of the unseen, the exhibition creates a space for encounter, where meaning emerges through attention and perception. It asks us to consider what might be felt but not easily articulated, and to recognise that the material and immaterial may be more closely connected than they first appear. Between artist and material, as well as artwork and viewer, something may resonate, opening a liminal space in which the invisible is brought briefly, and perhaps mysteriously, into perception.

At its heart, Tuning In is an invitation to be curious and to tune into the possibilities that exist between matter and the unseen.

The Artists

Paola Bay works mainly from her studio in the Swiss mountains. She makes paintings, drawings and talismans built from a geometric vocabulary that arrives unbidden: interlocking triangles and diamond forms, spirals, sigils, and a script that is hers alone, belonging to no existing alphabet. Her work is not derived from any single tradition, though it holds long conversations with several, including Sumerian and Babylonian seals, ziggurat geometry and the Flower of Life. Her talismans are made on natural stone in gold, which Bay describes as “an element forged in the collision of dying stars: matter that arrived here from elsewhere, marked with a language received the same way.”

Cecilia Charlton is a Glasgow-based American artist and researcher working primarily with the processes of weaving, embroidery, spinning, and natural dyeing. Charlton utilises historically-grounded textile techniques to pursue interests in geometry, colour and the role of the subconscious. Themes of feminism, human history, time and transcendence are inherently part of the hand-made work, and her investigation into the history of textiles from creative, cultural, and socio-economic perspectives underpins her studio practice. Spanning the mediums of textiles, installation, and art in the social sphere, the work results in conversation tending towards both the personal and the universal. Charlton is currently a PhD researcher at the Glasgow School of Art with recent works meditating on the intersection of traditional craft practices, ecological systems, and sociopolitical events towards a deeper understanding of intercultural and environmental relationships.

Amy Grantham works from her studio in her home in New York City. She has developed her practice using monotypes, photographs, collage, objects and pastels. Her large pastel works, which she describes as ‘transcriptions of sound’, can reach seven feet and are made on the studio floor. This exhibition presents Grantham’s smaller Motifs, begun in 2023. The artist says: “In music, a ‘motif’ is a short musical idea. It contains elements of harmony and rhythm which represent some of the components that make up the overall composition from which it sprang. These pieces are not motifs in any literal sense of the word, but they did feel to me as if they were connected to my larger works. Smaller parts of a larger whole which stand and sound beautifully all on their own.”

All three artists have exhibited internationally and are represented in public and private collections.

For more information on the exhibition please contact Vivienne Roberts – vivienne@vivienneroberts.com

For more information on the artists visit their websites or instagram feeds: Paola Bay ~ Cecilia Charlton ~ Amy Grantham

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