A Gathering of Unasked Possibility

3 - 6 October 2024
Thurs to Sun, 12-5pm

Private View :
Thursday 3rd October 6-8pm

Event programme and exhibition of sculpture, mixed media and installation exploring ecological uncertainty and relational entanglement, full of creative and hope-filled perspectives, offering an antidote to precarious times

A Gathering of Unasked Possibility is an exhibition and series of events by artists, researchers, and advocates who interrogate issues of contemporary precarity. They have dedicated their practices to addressing a range of issues - climate, political, economic, social - with calls for progressive responses that engage with lucid, active hope as ballast. A Gathering creates a propositional space with breathing room for alternative ways of thinking, expressing, and being.

A Gathering of Unasked Possibility is a travelling exhibition and event programme launching in London in October 2024, arriving in Somerton, Somerset in Spring 2025 and Beacon, New York In Autumn 2025.

A Gathering next travels to:
ACEarts, Somerton, UK 8 March - 26 April 2025
AU Gallery, Beacon, NY Autumn 2025

Curated by Judith Rodgers, A Gathering crafts an interactive space and exhibition that invites what is possible without demand. Transporting us to an experience far from our daily existence and yet intimately connected to it.

Artists Jo Ball, Kelly M O’Brien, and Lydia Halcrow, draw out and explore themes around ecological uncertainty and relational entanglement. Their work leverages creative and hope-filled perspectives, offering both ballast and antidote to the precarity of current times.

The artists present new work spanning sculpture, wall-based art, installation, mixed media and print, navigating and holding complex ideas with care and curiosity.

About

Jo Ball’s https://joball.info/ art is situated within the relationships between people, plants and the surrounding world, resonating in emotional responses to matter and invisible connections between things. Considering aspects of place, nature and how humans connect to their surroundings and each other, a deep curiosity for making and materials is at the root of her approach.

 

Kelly M O’Brien https://www.kellyobrien.art/ explores innovative ways of making with plant based and biodegradable materials to explore themes of care and repair related to climate change and biodiversity. Her practice is a platform for sharing ideas and catalyzing action around the potential for materials and ways of making that do less harm to land, creatures, and community. 

 

Lydia Halcrow’s https://www.lydiahalcrow.com/ work attunes to place and is formed in response to a close observation of human traces in our landscapes and the gradual decay of post-industrial structures and coastal erosion through the passage of time. Her work explores ways of collaborating with a place through her walking body. It holds the traces, textures and materiality of a place at its centre to create processes that form a series of alternative maps made with(in) a landscape. 

Accompanying the exhibition is a programme of free events and activities https://www.unaskedpossibility.art/events, giving power to conscious connections that happen in real time and in person away from our silos and echo chambers. The space is created with mindful attention to nourish and enrich, enabling gathering together for creativity, conversation and contemplation.

Participating artists

Events

Event programme details and booking: https://www.unaskedpossibility.art/