In The Wind's Hands
Forthcoming exhibition
Overview
In The Wind’s Hands invites viewers into a tactile landscape where material becomes emotion and texture speaks its own language. This exhibition brings together artists Kim Booker, Katie Cuddon, Lydia Gifford, Alice Kettle, Roy Oxlade and Daniel Silver, whose practices center on the expressive power of texture. Here, gesture, surface, and substance coalesce into a deeply sensory form of communication.
Drawing on the legacy of expressionism, texture in this context is not merely a formal device but a conduit of the artist’s emotional and physical engagement with their medium. From the embroidered surfaces of Alice Kettle to the sculptural forms of Daniel Silver, from the raw immediacy of Kim Booker’s and Lydia Gifford’s painted marks to the tactile sensitivity of Katie Cuddon’s works, each artist reveals texture as a site of vulnerability, force, and intimacy. In The Wind’s Hands becomes a meditation on abstraction as a profoundly human act, where touch becomes thought, and material becomes memory.
In an age of digital polish and visual saturation, this exhibition reclaims the handmade, the visceral, and the imperfect. To enter this space is to slow down and attune. To listen with the eyes, feel through seeing, and rediscover the evocative potential of touch as a visual language.
Drawing on the legacy of expressionism, texture in this context is not merely a formal device but a conduit of the artist’s emotional and physical engagement with their medium. From the embroidered surfaces of Alice Kettle to the sculptural forms of Daniel Silver, from the raw immediacy of Kim Booker’s and Lydia Gifford’s painted marks to the tactile sensitivity of Katie Cuddon’s works, each artist reveals texture as a site of vulnerability, force, and intimacy. In The Wind’s Hands becomes a meditation on abstraction as a profoundly human act, where touch becomes thought, and material becomes memory.
In an age of digital polish and visual saturation, this exhibition reclaims the handmade, the visceral, and the imperfect. To enter this space is to slow down and attune. To listen with the eyes, feel through seeing, and rediscover the evocative potential of touch as a visual language.
