Drawing upon the worlds around them and quiet moments in everyday life, their artworks celebrate a wealth of lived experience. They share a compulsion to create and make visible, deeply held feelings, interests and ideas through a sensitive and exploratory engagement with materiality. 

This exhibition brings together paintings, prints, assemblages, found  objects reconstituted and video installation. Common themes of identity, memory, joy, loss and influence of place emerge and bind their diverse practices.

Deeqa works with printmaking, sound, video, and installations, often incorporating analogue processes and Somali sonic archives. Emma’s ‘memory blocks’ are small assemblages of mono-screenprint fragments, children’s building blocks, and shellac. Hazel’s main process is the deconstruction and reconstitution of found objects. Kirsty is a mixed media and abstract painter using collage, texture, and a process of layering and revealing. An interest in the relationships between colours and shapes is central to Michelle’s practice. The structural and fluid components of drawing are the starting point for Nan’s painting. Suzanne’s paintings begin intuitively, in a moment of presence. She describes her practice as a form of play, the canvas the playground. Within Yvonne’s recent paintings, resonances of her past practice with stitch emerge.