Kristen McClarty, a Cape Town artist and specialist printmaker, works primarily in woodcut. Her practice involves the methodical building up of information on a surface through the act of removing material from a substrate.

Central to her current practice is a particular place along the South Atlantic Ocean shoreline. McClarty has named it The Yellow Rock Fort. As the sun rises over Slangkop Mountain, the spotlighted Yellow Rock Fort becomes a theatre, a space for McClarty to play with shadows: forms tenuously untethered from the body and altered by the shape and contours of the rocks.

McClarty's practice draws on the idea that lived experience lingers in a place as residual energy, pooling and accumulating like a palimpsest on the environment. Acutely aware of how surfaces translate into print, she attempts to read the marks of this residual energy from the world around her. Some of those marks she translates into woodcut. Her shadow, a temporary celestial creature, appears in relation to those marks at The Yellow Rock Fort and, through the transmutation of its form, brings elements of that "text" to life.

To engage with this materially, McClarty turns to sculpture and installation as an extension of her process. What we encounter in this exhibition are moments from her interaction with The Yellow Rock Fort, translated into a tableau of elements that support an ongoing narrative of play.