Curated by Jennifer Moore / Ellie Reid
Aileen Kelly
When presenting something as cheap and widely used as polystyrene into a gallery setting, it is reframed as worthy of attention and reflection. We accept this material everywhere but question it the moment it asks to be seen.
Clare Jarrett
Clare Jarrett makes sculpture and drawings using all sorts of different materials; from fabric to metal, to ceramic and found objects. Her investigations are always exciting and surprising leading the way to new territories.
Karen Byrne
Karen Byrne is a Brixton-based artist working across sculpture, drawing, performance, video, and installation. Her disconcerting, dichotomous work explores bodily freedom, human and non-human relationships, value, perception, and our impact on the planet, balancing joy and unease.
Rachel Causer
Feelings of powerlessness often provoke an inward response and a drive to bring matters close to home and under our control. From the satisfaction felt from mending to the phenomenon of ‘Preppers’ anticipating impending world disaster, we find ourselves grappling in different ways with the fear of the ‘unknown’.
Seona Myerscroft
A device that locates the past through wormholes, seeking direction when familiar structures fail, and attempting to receive guidance from a former self, though the signal remains uncertain.
Vivien Delta
While primarily engaging with materiality and process, Vivien does not reject narrative and content. Through making, she examines what is essential, what deserves commemoration, and how meaning is constructed from fragments, questioning permanence, challenging cultural memory, and reimagining alternative futures.
Carolyn Whittaker
The relationship between the elements of time, change and risk at conceptual and material levels is the mainstay of Carolyn’s practice; inviting the viewer to observe the performative nature of the object slowly changing form, and therefore participating in the risks associated with the outcome.
Chuting Lee
Chuting is a London-based Taiwanese artist specializing in sculpture and performance. She channels her thoughts and feelings into her art, capturing moments of intensity through the fluidity and plasticity of materials.
Diana Wolzak
Diana Wolzak nurtures discarded objects and throwaway materials into humorous, colourful and playful works of art. Freeing everyday mass production from their function, she allows the mundane to shine beyond their common definition, and creatively redefines their existence.
Kay Senior
Kay’s sculptures are process and materials led including domestic materials, pillows, found broken glass, plaster dust and sea glass, communicating both peaceful and more disturbing feelings and rhythms of our daily lives and dreams. Fragility and resilience are recurring themes in her work.
Sandy Layton
Through an engagement with materiality and process, Sandy Layton’s work explores recurrent themes of human bodily and emotional experience. Her practice involves playing spontaneously with different forms which she collages together and it is through this process that unconscious emotions come alive.
Tessa Garland
Tessa Garland creates sculpture, installation and film exploring space and material. Blending illusion and transformation, her internationally exhibited work examines how environments and objects evolve through human intervention.