Timothy Taylor will now represent American artist Martha Tuttle in London. The gallery will present her first solo exhibition with the gallery in November, featuring works made with materials collected during a summer residency in Somerset, England.
Tuttle will continue to be represented by Peter Blum Gallery in New York, where she has previously shown her textile- and sculpture-based works. Her practice combines weaving and dying techniques with painting, a hybrid methodology she uses to explore materiality and impermanence. Born in rural New Mexico in 1989, Tuttle frequently draws on personal connections to environment and geography. “My work is always asking how we, as human beings, can encourage intimacy with the nonhuman world that surrounds us,” she said in a press statement.
The upcoming exhibition, yet to be titled, will highlight Tuttle’s engagement with natural materials, including plant dyes, stone pigments, wool, linen, and silk. A new work, I walk along the bottom of a canyon, finding mineral matter and fragments of bones (2025), incorporates geode fragments and bronze casts of cow bones. Like her other pieces, it demonstrates her interest in the tension between opacity and transparency, and the oppositional dialogue between geometric order and shifting natural light.
Over the past decade, Tuttle has expanded her approach by embedding natural elements, such as stones, charred wood, or cast aluminium, into layered textile-based surfaces. These processes often begin with labor-intensive preparation, such as grinding pigments or hand-spinning wool. The physicality of the work, and its reliance on natural sources, underscores her commitment to slow, deliberate methods.
Tuttle’s practice also extends to outdoor installations. Her 2020 project at Storm King Art Center, A stone that thinks of Enceladus (2020), featured piles of stones evocative of burial mounds with an entryway text written by Tuttle: a series of 23 questions reflecting on geological history and mythology.
Now living and working in Livingston, Montana, she graduated with an MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015. Previous solo exhibitions include “An ear, a hand, a mouth, an offering, an angel” at Chicago’s Rhona Hoffman Gallery in 2022 and “Wild irises grow in the mountains” at New York’s Tilton Gallery in 2021. Her work is held in collections such as The Museum of Modern Art in New York and the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.
Correction: a previous version of this article stated that Tuttle lives in Brooklyn. She lives in Livingston, Montana.
