While We’re Watching

A multi-disciplinary group exhibition by six artists who also work together as invigilators at Hauser & Wirth Somerset. This show connects their shared sense of observation and dialogue within the gallery, through which stories and work emerge, some created during interludes between shows.

Across the show, materials and methods echo the artists’ shared role as storytellers. Alannah Sallis’s 'Beautiful Disguises' speaks to the allure of surface and the emotional complexity hidden beneath, using clown imagery to explore persona, masking, and the human psyche. Becca Croxton works mainly with woodcut printmaking, carving connection to identity through the layering, and exploration of place and time. Fiona Campbell’s organic sculptural textiles use labour-intensive processes to rework discarded materials, treating matter as non-hierarchical gestures of care, repair and resistance. Kate Plowman’s mixed media images, sculptures, and mosaic works are made largely from collaged recycled materials including maps and clothing. Leslie Glenn Damhus’s paintings are steeped in mythology, fairytales, religious iconography and animal symbolism in art. Her playful sense of humour combines the historical and the contemporary, weaving modern-day cultural reference through Quattrocento imagery. Penny Hartley’s Model Village uses drawings and soft abstract buildings to represent structures that we live and work in, of physical settlements and ideas of community - purposefully embracing an ambiguity between art and product.

Taking place in the intimate setting of No.6 Bruton, 6 High Street, Bruton, Somerset BA10 0AA, the exhibition runs from 27 March – 6 April (Fri–Sun, 11-5). PV: Friday 27 March, 6-8pm.

It coincides with Easter weekend, and the Don McCullin exhibition at Hauser & Wirth Somerset.

The exhibition will be invigilated by the artists, reinforcing themes of presence, observation, and quiet attentiveness within the gallery.

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