Rully Zakaria 7 - 15 August / Justin Lees 28 August - 12 September / Brontë Naylor + Friends 27 November - 12 December

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RESONANCE / RULLU ZAKARIA

My practice sits at the threshold where biology, technology, and sound become instruments of perception. I'm drawn to systems that live and change on their own terms - fungal networks, decaying architecture, the slow reclamation of built space by the natural world.

This exhibition moves through deep time and its residues: the memory of civilizations, the resonance of sound as a form of evolution, the quiet tension between man, machine, and the natural world. Most of these works were created during a 2025 residency in Kavala, Greece, drawing on the region's landscape and pre-historic etchings of geometric shapes, and abstract symbol imprints in sacred spaces. Rendered in monochromatic tones, they evoke fossil-like impressions - a meditation on memory and human presence within nature.

Elsewhere, the work descends underground and underwater, into invisible currents of sound and energy that nature never stops generating. Nothing here is a mistake; imperfection is where growth becomes visible and beauty is something still forming rather than fixed.

At its core, this body of work is a return to instinct, to attention, to a kind of mothering: gentle and intense at once. It is an invitation to listen closely and to love what is still becoming.

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    UPCOMING

    Justin Lees / TBC
    21 August - 5 September, 2026

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  • Previous

    Paula Thistleton / Women on chairs, and objects
    3 July - 11 July 2026

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    Catherine Hickson / Songs of Stones
    12 June - 27 June 2026

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    Prudence DeMarchi / She Dreams in Colour
    29 May - 6 June 2026

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