Curated by Sarah Sparkes / Jane Millar
Andrew Ekins
Recent work explores the grime of human presence, the anthropocentric imprint on habitat, the sediment of experience and memory in an allusion between a geo-topographical landscape and a crumpled landscape of the human condition.
Caroline Gregory
'Coming from the Inside' continues my exploration of stories, memories, and beliefs that may be held in spaces, bodies, and objects, working to transform meanings that may be trapped or stuck within. I weave together old and new materials, consistently stitch costume and ceramics. The work then truly finds life, expansion and release through its audience.
Deborah Gardner
Mycelium Shroud shifts our human-centric gaze on the world through ceremonial dress; it invites considerations of our entanglement with other living species, our shared evolutionary history with fungi and the importance of these interconnected experiences.
Geraldine Swayne
Windows and Thresholds, it's coming from inside: The domestic interior is a dimension where the most real and impossible dramas will always reside.
Jane Millar
Jane Millar’s work with ceramic sculpture explores shifting, fuzzy identities of place and objects, of being and appearing. She creates an area - of holes, walls, lumps, hooks and loops; a place of spectres.
Julia Maddison
Collecting, reworking and subverting the flotsam of forgotten lives, I am gradually building a kind of museum of domestic misery. My work in Bell House could be part of a disguise or maybe something that betrays an inner anguish.
Lisa Fielding-Smith
Within this series Lisa explores camouflage and invisibility within domestic spaces through meticulous collage intervention. Using highly reflective glass over black mount the viewer becomes part of the work.
Mikey Cuddihy
My work sits at an intersection between the political and the decorative. Linear, biomorphic forms are transcribed into motifs, paintings, assemblages, using paper – plain and painted, alongside pink pages from the FT, which I cut, staple, pleat, gather and embellish.
Robert Dawson
Robert reacts to the histories of the decorative arts and painting. He re-presents ornamental motifs in ways contrary to their original function. Confined Variables is a reworking of a 19th-c heating grill design.
Sarah Sparkes
My work is about threshold magic and those who dare to open the door. Gatekeepers beware, it's coming from inside! Sarah Sparkes is an artist and curator. She runs the creative research project GHost.
Birgitta Hosea
Holes: Originally created for a peepshow, this abstract film hints at an interior journey traced by oil pastels, white spirit, milk, ink, detergent, lipstick and pomegranates using hand drawing, After Effects and a microscopic camera.
Darren O’Brien
Around the Outside (Ah Ha) is an A3 painting on paper on canvas. It is part of a series that searches the edge of a work, dancing around it's frame like ' Buffalo Gals going around the outside'.
Fran Burden
Textile and assemblage as part of an ongoing investigation into the convergence of fine art and craft practices...
Current work mixes surface pattern, texture and colour to explore material and decorativeness, the edges and details.
Helen Carr
In Windows & Thresholds Helen’s work draws on her use of the comforting familiarity of crockery and food debris, in particular handles, spouts, knobs, and chicken bones which she collages together to create unsettling objects.
Janet Currier
An installation of large soft sculptures, compressed into a corner shelving unit. This work explores the confining nature of domestic life, the squeezing of the self into small spaces, and the impossibility of that containment.
Kim Pace
‘Major & Minor (Mother + Daughter)’ 2022, reflects upon one of the most complicated relationships we have in life. Glazed porcelain is used to simultaneously suggest both strength and resilience, alongside exquisite delicacy and fragility.
Liz Elton
Liz Elton’s ‘Graft 3’ on a compostable ground coloured with vegetable dyes from kitchen waste and sewn together with silk references skin and soil, connecting our inner selves and the environment we inhabit.
Mindy Lee
Lee paints over familiar, domestic picture frames, with ghostly, uncanny scenarios. 'Dig Deep' refers to both emotional motivation and physical action. Within this dreamlike space, journeys between internal and external thresholds are explored.
Ruth Calland
Bitings from creatures invited over to en-trance, lead to a more comfortable relationship with what you previously called sin, now simply: my true nature. The moment of turning, transformation, breathless anticipation, shaking off the past and its masks, spinning silk from shadows; the deeper real.
Wayne Lucas
Textiles and found objects are used as a dialogue of sexuality and vulnerability, transporting the viewer on a journey both familiar and unfamiliar. The work resides on the cusp between memory and fantasy.