To feel cared for, to feel the comfort of one’s tenderness, and to extend that outwards is to open one’s heart, soul, and spirit to sharing the heights of our happiness, and the instability of our uncertainty, to breathe heavily at the end of a phone line knowing we will be collected, held, and supported at the other end. To be open to finding intimacy is to be open to finding disappointment, to navigate difficult conversations because no matter how challenging, it’s easier than accepting the loss of that person without trying. To bathe in the heat of a laugh so deep it fills the atmosphere with a tang so infectious that together even years later, we can so easily tap back into that moment shared with one that we love in the cushioned hammock of our bond. To accept the respect, trust, responsibility, knowledge, care and commitment - as described by bell hooks - needed to accept one’s love we must find within ourselves the sunshine that our loved ones so easily see.
An intimate collection of our hand sculpted and wheel thrown ceramic works from past and present and new unique collaborative pieces by father and daughter Chris Bramble and Freya Bramble- Carter who maintain daily clay sessions, teaching in their London studio at Kingsgate Workshops.
Cohesion is a new body of work by artists Ibrahim Azab and Josh Moseley, exploring the experience of friendship, practice and play.
Through collaboration, the duo artists investigate notions of connection, separation and presence via the lens and image making processes. Both artists move away and approach each others artistic practice, using the photograph as a space of arrival and departure. Through this act, performances become present whilst simultaneously absent from each other and the camera, forming a visceral understanding of time, space and object whilst bringing together and fragmenting the body, memory and the photograph.
‘Belonging as other’ draws on the experience of feeling displaced, the journey to finding peace within one’s self and the importance of community.