HERE TO BECOME

Image: Here to Become

The Bridewell Studios and Gallery, Liverpool 7-14 July 2023

Act 5 of the Material Matters collective was presented at the Bridewell Gallery and marked the first exhibition by our four founding artists as a newly formed members’ co-operative. Working from our new studio at the Bridewell, the title HERE TO BECOME emerged early in our conversations as a way of expressing the circular and evolving nature of authorship and creative expression within a collective practice. From the outset, we were interested in remaining open in our outcomes, creating a body of work intended to provoke questions for visitors rather than to offer definitive answers. The work that developed through this collaboration is a synthesis of our individual methodologies, shaped by a shared engagement with ideas of time and space; matter and spirit; moment and resonance; order and complexity.