13/10/2026
The Wisdom of the Desert
Film, sound and sculpture
by No Spinoza and Nick Walters
The Red Tower
Foss Islands Road, York, YO1 9UJ
7 November 2026, 6-9pm
8 November 2026, 1-4pm
FREE ADMISSION, NO BOOKING REQUIRED
Navigators Art brings together two multimedia artists for a special exhibition of film, sound and sculpture in the unique setting of York’s historic Red Tower.
No Spinoza (Thomas Pearson) and Nick Walters share an interest in the symbolism of found materials and the mystical traditions of the wilderness. Bringing together a range of new work, they will create an immersive, provocative, multi-sensory experience.
Honey has long been revered by ancient desert cultures as a life-giving substance, associated with ideas of rebirth and immortality. Saint John the Baptist is said to have survived alone on a diet of wild honey and locusts.
No Spinoza presents Jupiter’s Great Hurricane (2026), a cycle of experimental music and film broadly exploring themes of temptation, progress and inheritance. The videos accompany an album of music and a book of essays which will be available to buy at the exhibition.
Thomas Pearson (No Spinoza) is an artist from the north-east of England. His work spans music, poetry and film, linked by themes including folklore, industrial heritage, and postmodernism in art and architecture.
Nick Walters is a mixed media artist based in York. He combines recycled materials and found objects with technology to create interactive and immersive projects, installations and sculptures. 'Honey Dipper' (2026) passes electrical current through the material to create mysterious and ever-changing textures of sound. Ex-voto (2026), a series of small sculptures set in niches in the tower walls, alludes to beeswax votive statues placed in shrines as a gesture of gratitude and devotion.
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