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Chris RustonThe WavesAltered Book. 2026. Virginia Woolfs book becomes the art object.
23/09/2026

Chris Ruston
The Waves
Altered Book.
2026.

Virginia Woolfs book becomes the art object.

Gwen Simpson“The whole world is a work of art”Virginia WoolfEco Emersion Dyed Cloth Samples Watercolour Paper2022 - 2023...
23/09/2026

Gwen Simpson
“The whole world is a work of art”
Virginia Woolf
Eco Emersion Dyed Cloth Samples
Watercolour Paper
2022 - 2023

This series of works reflects Gwen’s ongoing exploration of the many wonderful natural dyes that are to be found in nature.

Louise SwainThe Eternal RenewalCyanotype, Candlestick, Tin Can2026Louise’s zoetrope explores rhythm, repetition and chan...
23/09/2026

Louise Swain
The Eternal Renewal
Cyanotype, Candlestick, Tin Can
2026

Louise’s zoetrope explores rhythm, repetition and change. A water lily from her own garden opens and closes in an endless cycle, drawing attention to the quiet daily rhythms of the natural world and the passing of time.

Louise Swain
“Rise and Fall”
Cyanotype on Cotton
2026
£180

Exploring breath as a form of meditation, and the ebb and flow between mind, body and nature.

Nicola ParryAloneMixed Media2026Through the voices of each of Woolf’s characters, the work explores the idea that we are...
23/09/2026

Nicola Parry
Alone
Mixed Media
2026

Through the voices of each of Woolf’s characters, the work explores the idea that we are “not one and simple but complex and many”, recognising how the uncontrollable peaks and troughs of our lives render identity fluid and ever changing. Drawing on the novel’s attentive observations of the everyday, the series echoes the Nicola’s belief in photography as an act of noticing: a way of recognising how small moments of joy, as much as life’s larger obstacles, shape who we are.

Sally Chinea What RemainsAltered Book, Found Textiles, Sea Water, Glitter, Plant Material,      Thread.2026Price: free!S...
23/09/2026

Sally Chinea
What Remains
Altered Book, Found Textiles, Sea Water, Glitter, Plant Material,      Thread.
2026
Price: free!

Sally’s work explores individual voices and shifting identities within the books six characters. Each form reflects their separate experiences and personalities, distinct yet connected - different rhythms of the same sea. All elements are made from a single copy of The Waves, transforming the book itself, into a shared physical landscape.

Visitors are invited to take a fragment from the work with them, as pieces leave the installation, spaces and absences emerge allowing the work to be in a state of continual transformation. What remains is not fixed, with each fragment carrying something of the whole away beyond the gallery. Reminding us of Woolf’s idea that the self is never fixed — it is always shifting, being removed, and being remade.

Karen Apps ‘A blue scroll of embroidery by some old girl’ Virginia WoolfHand-stitched Wool, Silk, and Cotton.2026 ...
23/09/2026

Karen Apps
‘A blue scroll of embroidery by some old girl’
Virginia Woolf
Hand-stitched Wool, Silk, and Cotton.
2026

Chris RustonFragmented Stories; ‘Let us suppose that I make reason of it all’Virginia Woolf Redacted Altered Book2026 Th...
23/09/2026

Chris Ruston
Fragmented Stories; ‘Let us suppose that I make reason of it all’
Virginia Woolf
Redacted Altered Book
2026

The characters Bernard and Louis are always trying to fix in words various sensations and experiences in the hope that by doing so they will infuse transcendental moments with permanence. Throughout his life Bernard collects words in a note book in the quest to find the perfect phrase that encapsulates life’s meaning. Ultimately he comes to realise ordered sequences and neat phrases reveal very little of lived experience. He comes to realise words cannot be ordered in any coherent way to capture the true depth and complexity of lived experience but are instead mere shadows.

In keeping with Bernard’s quest to find the perfect phrase, Chris has redacted Woolf’s text creating phrases that ‘surface and float’ above a ‘sea of words’. This work uses every page from The Waves, transforming it into a notebook of phrases. Each page remains unbound allowing the altered book to be read in various sequences.

Lola Swain Wave Coiled and Burnished Earthenware2025
23/09/2026

Lola Swain
Wave
Coiled and Burnished Earthenware
2025

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