Earth to Earth - a solo exhibition of Adi Toch

… The work references the forms of historic burial and votive objects but also echos silhouettes that appear in nature, from the fungi tasked with decomposition to the acorns quietly storing the next generation of forests in their insides. The Urns were buried in London for five months, encased in a carapace of mineral-rich mud Adi collected from the Dead Sea of her native Israel. From their time in the earth the Urns are naturally sealed shut, the process forever trapping their emptiness inside. Urns are, fundamentally, objects for protecting our most symbolically precious cargo. These empty sealed Urns - forged of materials from the earth, buried, then retrieved - tell complicated stories about succession, mortality, preservation and welcoming change. In Earth to Earth Adi’s exceptional process and the resultant artworks express the very human conditions of endurance, evolution and emergence.

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Memory Landscape - a solo exhibition of Aneta Regel

… Her Pien sculptures (from the Polish for the trunk of a tree) map out a mystical and strange landscape. These towering balustrades of dendroid rock and clay are ancient and uncanny, petrified trees imbued with energy, mystery and - one senses - movement. Negotiating through this preternatural world of her making, we must be wary of seduction by the prehistoric, faceless creatures creeping between the boughs. These amorphous beasts are animistic yet mineral. They are coated in thick glazes with hues of blooming lichen, luminous fungi, moss and strata; as if they have stood still long enough to be enveloped by the woodland, but may yet, any second, stir back to life…

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… Julian Watts wants to pull us into a liminal space that is organic, sensual and grotesque. His world is one steeped in the arresting beauty of the underland of nature, but that pushes at the edges of Western aesthetic conventions …

… The collection is a witty and playfully elegant challenge to the viewer to meet materials as themselves, to engage with the tactility, narrative and ethical provenance of the objects we surround ourselves with …

… Luke Fuller’s work offers a different perspective, urging us to interrogate our often naive or simplified notions of sustainability. His monumental, tectonic works in clay confront us with forms drawn from coal mining and imagined barren landscapes manipulated to human ends. He focuses our attention on the sheltering of the urban populace, our privilege distancing us from the fundamental means of production and the realities of industry that we rely on … 

… Carnac’s work in this collection is placed on and in, her vessels hold and are held; on furniture that is art object, stage and shelf. Her work can be seen as part of and through the peepholes in Gates's constructions of miniaturised collaged and imagined industries. The shifting planes of Mackenzie's paintings - where we see his shadow trees, human-constructed barriers and painterly demarcations of space harmonising - echo the urge to understand the exhibition's three-dimensional pieces from many perspectives and to make sense of the throughs, betweens, insides and underneaths …

… Aneta’s work is darkly whimsical, nostalgic and strange, it plunges us into a wondrous Grimm world where the trees are rocks and the rocks are alive …