Curated by Kim Thornton
Min Angel
Min Angel works between painting, drawing and objects. She is interested in touch, noticing the quickening of our senses, considering the elemental and the ephemeral and exploring the non-visible, non-verbal alongside the visible.
Lito Apostolakou
Lito Apostolakou works across moving image, drawing and installation, combining works on paper and photography with animation and film. Through analogue and digital processes of translation and re-mediation, she produces works that move across media, exploring how images and events are recorded, transformed, and reinterpreted in time and space.
Nicky Hirst
Nicky Hirst has assembled an ornate placard designed to express grief, remembrance, and collective loss. Created for use in public gatherings like demonstrations or vigils, the placard functions as a portable site of mourning, making grief visible in a shared space.
Kim Thornton
Kim Thornton humorously combines making and photography to explore gender roles and domesticity, pushing the boundaries of ‘normal’ behaviour. She creates costumes fashioned from domestic materials and stages unexpected scenes that subvert everyday tasks and suggest a secret life of make-believe and fantasy.
Kate Williams
Kate Williams is a sculptor who works primarily with textiles. Her Soft Cell series reframes the padded cell as a retreat from post modernity, exploring moments of voluntary displacement in which pleasure, comfort, illusion and unease begin to overlap, and agency slips.
Cash Aspeek
Cash Aspeek is a London based artist focusing on the overlooked and often discarded materials from worn sheets to seed heads. She picks apart and forensically analyses, re-doing and re-purposing everyday objects. Her practice involves ephemeral sculptures, interventions, performace and photography.
Ali Darke
RESTING PLACES:
Loss brings absence, and yet the dead weight of grief.
Ali Darke's work viscerally expresses in materiality, form and space, the hinterland between the mind and body where the unconscious leaves a trace.
Lucy Soni
Lucy Soni, re-evaluates the throwaway and overlooked to explore themes of shifting time, chaos and control. Using everyday domestic items and waste materials from the events industry as starting points to create paintings, sculptures and installations.
Andy Wierner
Mary Ann on Sweet Chestnut. An archival image from 1900, physically projected onto this veteran tree. In making the photograph, I felt connected to her. I trained at the RCA in the 1980s, my practice is rooted in surrealism.
Silvia Ziranek
NOT DEAD, SHE SAID
SOME LIVE MORE THAN (OTHERS). I THINK I AM (ALIVE). I WANT TO BE (ALIVE). I TRY TO NOT DIE I TRY TO NOT BE DEAD. I WISH TO BE ME / NOT DEAD (SHE SAID).
Photo by Jane England
Artist Performance: Saturdays 9th & 16th May at 3pm