02/06/2026
Ann Shelton | i am an old phenomenon | 5 June - 11 July 2026
Opening preview | Thursday 4 April 2026 | 5.30-7.30pm
Plants act on us: they stain, intoxicate, soothe, inflame and alter our bodies. In i am an old phenomenon, plants are in motion and reaction: they burn, rot, float, and sink. They are wet, submerged and carnal. Drawing on medicinal and folkloric histories, these photographs evoke the permeable boundaries between plant and human worlds. Botanical specimens have long been collected, classified and named; photography is deeply entangled with these imperial systems of ordering. Ann Shelton’s images resist this containment. Plants expand beyond their frames, occupying unbounded, indeterminate spaces untethered from geography and taxonomy. With these works, Ann creates a rhizomatic archive in which histories and associations remain shifting, accumulative, and incomplete.
Waverly Taylor, 2026
bruised and burned, (vervain, enchanter’s plant, herb of the cross, Juno’s tears, herba sacra, Herbe Sacrée, divine w**d, herba veneris, Herb of Grace), 2026
