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An independent space showcasing long-term collaborations and emerging creative talent through a programme of exhibitions and workshops.

Upcoming Exhibition; 7th-23rd Feb 2025

Rubbish Glazes

Hannah Mackaness and her ceramic material investigation. Rubbish Glazes revives ancient wood-ash glaze recipes, using ash from burnt domestic waste on hand thrown clay vessels.

The body, for Wolter, is the vessel and its ubiquity, its familiarity, suggests universality and togetherness, not in body but in personhood. Representation is often discussed in popular artistic culture, to see is to feel represented and perhaps from a biological viewpoint, this is still largely overdue, but emotionally, Wolter suggests that the figure, the body, the representation does not need to mirror to instil feeling, to encourage that emotional engagement. Wolter taps into a universality in the human condition that is far more nuanced, something under the skin.

Natalie Baerselman le Gros, Art Writer

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Exhibitions

Perfection - Ian Wolter

Perfection - Ian Wolter

7th March - 25th May 2025 In Pursuit of Perfection: Sculpture by Ian Wolter by Natalie Baerselman le Gros  It would be easy to make assumptions about Ian Wolter’s new works. That, under the exhib...

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Rubbish Glazes

Rubbish Glazes

7th - 23rd Feb 2025

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Black & Gold

Black & Gold

6th December - 15th January 2024

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