We hope you’ll join us for the opening celebration
Sunday, May 24, 5-7pm at Silver Eel Cove
Champagne & Oysters will be served
We are pleased to announce the 2026 Lighthouse Works Public Art Commission. This year, the commission was awarded to Jyll Bradley, a leading British artist whose work spans installation, sculpture, performance, film, and photography.
Now in its 13th year, the commission places a temporary sculpture on the plinth at the entrance of Silver Eel Cove. This year’s selection was made through a community-led process: a committee of four Fishers Islanders chose Bradley’s proposal from a shortlist of five, developed from a long list of 25 artists. For Jyll, this will be her first public commission in the United States.
Portal is a light and space sculpture fabricated in aluminum and fluorescent green Plexiglass. Bradley describes the work:
“Portal is both a thing and a space. My response to the extraordinary setting of Silver Eel Cove, a liminal place between sea and land, is not to impose a heavy object or narrative but to create a work that is pared back and thus gives back. Portal will act as a permeable pavilion — a practical space for gathering, shelter, meditation, and mini-performances like storytelling and poetry. Highly light-reactive, it will harvest the abundance of sun at Silver Eel Cove, acting as a sundial, changing in appearance all through the day and seasons.”
Portal will be on view at Silver Eel Cove from May 24 through December 15, 2026.
Selected work of Jyll Bradley
The Hop, (2022)
Fluorescent live-edge Plexiglas, aluminium Unistrut, pine wood.
4m x 5m x 22m
Commissioned by the Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Dutch/Light (2017)
Re-purposed timber from naval dockyard, Edge-Lit Plexiglas, mirrored steel, steel plate anchorage.
9m wide x 8m high x 3m depth.
Commissioned by Chatham Historic Dockyard Trust and Turner Contemporary in collaboration with Culture Kent.
