Exhibitions

13 March – 2 May 2026

Artists Daisy Dixon and Rhiannon Hooson explore our differing relationships with the world, from reciprocal cycles that chart the landscape’s history, to the ways in which we traverse the boundary between the domestic and the wild.  From the ephemeral to the remembered, in vignettes and mementos, the works exist in the haunted edge-world of the real.  

“My work explores the transition between the domestic vignettes of the still life, and the difficulties of portraying the world around us in a time of climate breakdown.  We have imposed barriers between ourselves and the natural world which frame our every interaction with it.  I’m fascinated by the idea of art that is only sporadically perceptible, in the same way that we are not privy to the world as a whole.  We occupy comfortable, domestic spaces, but these are easily ruptured by something wilder, something unknowable – the vase tips and breaks; the view into the water that had seemed clear is shifting, and now clouded.  Text becomes illegible.  Texture is obscured.  In seeking to impose a human narrative on more uncanny spaces, we have trapped ourselves in the halfway house of false comfort, where things are never quite tamed. The landscape around us is altered and unreliable, sometimes familiar, sometimes populated by reflections that hold us at arms length.“

Rhiannon Hooson

“I am excited by the tension my sculptures hold between beauty and repulsion. They offer a fragmented view into my identity, reflecting the impermanence of both life and material. My practice invites engagement with these dialogues, seeking to connect with what is lost and cannot be fully understood.

Rooted in lived experience, my work navigates psychological vulnerability and the human desire for stability. I am interested in the complexities of containment: the longing to be held, the instinct to protect, and the emotional residues internalised by objects and spaces. These concerns are informed by research, collaboration, travel and a commitment to recovering female narratives. Through intuitive, materially led processes, making and curating become acts of embodied reflection where grief and memory surface through touch. It is both method and meditation: a continual negotiation between control and surrender, presence and absence. I work with materials such as latex, silicone and paper pulp, shaping and casting them by hand. These are often paired with found or industrial forms to create friction between the personal and the manufactured. Material combinations reflect my ongoing search for balance between inner spirituality and external, objective reality.

The resulting sculptures suggest internal cavities, ambiguous vessels or abstracted bodies. They gesture toward the feminine; exposed, suspended and in flux. Ultimately, I aim to create objects that are both tender and grotesque: imperfect propositions that attempt to map what it means to feel, remember and endure.“

Daisy Dixon