The box-like exhibition space is painted in a dark colour – almost black but with a hint of green. It reflects very little light.
The gallery floor is concrete and there is a grey metal bench to sit on.
Hung on the wall opposite the open gallery entrance are six bindweed collages photographed on a white background, printed on a heavy matt paper and mounted in pale yellow box frames.
The crip collages are standard sizes: three are A3, three A4. The frames tessellate to create an irregular zig-zag shape top and bottom. Each collage is different, but made up of multiple prints of the same image, which give the impression of a plant tendril growing in a twining fashion towards the light. The edges of the prints curl slightly, leaving shadows in the collage that suggest movement and a sense of three dimensionality.
On the wall to the left of the door is a projected moving image, which runs for 5 minutes 29 seconds before looping seamlessly again, and again. There is no audio. The video is 16:9 proportions. It is projected centrally and fills most of the width of the gallery wall. There is a separate ALT TEXT / audio description of this work.
As you turn away from the moving image and head to leave the gallery there is a vertical column of barely visible artist text in grey vinyl italic lettering on the wall to the left of the doorway. It reads:
delicate
persistent
twining
binding
helical
telomere
tip
moving slowly
under siege
marginal
unruly
angry
overlooked
neglected
covering ground
looking for light
August, 2023