Photo credit: Mary Alice Beal and Wanting Wang (One of our exhibiting artists in Open Open 2025)
AREA A: Soft Traces, Deep Roots
1. Still Here, Somehow – Simon Peter Green
2. The Stars Reflect in the Reservoirs – Julia Keenan
3. Blood Stained Child – Wakrot Chinshaka
4. I wish I was still there – Eve Kemp-Gee
5. Nostalgia I – Julie Gayle Balliu
6. Within me, Beneath me, All Around Me – Alice Healy
7. Oyster – Will Frampton
8. Allium – Lorna Bramwells
9. Empty Nest – Liz Clifford
10. Posy – Kate Mieczkowska
11. Homeward Bound – Daz Beatson
12. Wipeout – Elizabeth Hammond
What do we carry with us—through soil, through seasons, through silence?
Area A invites you into a gentle but profound contemplation of place, identity, and the emotional textures of home. Here, the natural world acts as both metaphor and material, shaping how we remember, mourn, and belong. These twelve works explore the resonance of seemingly small moments—dried flowers in a glass, light through trees, the absence in an empty room—but speak to universal themes of loss, care, rootedness, and the passing of time.
Winner of the Hampshire Award - Liz Clifford
At the heart of this space is Empty Nest by Liz Clifford, recipient of the Hampshire Residency Award, whose tender sculptural work evokes the quiet ache of change and departure, and how care can be held in form. Alongside it, works like I wish I was still there by Eve Kemp-Gee and Still Here, Somehow by Simon Peter Green explore the blurry edge between past and present, where longing becomes landscape.
From the haunting beauty of The Stars Reflect in the Reservoirs to the visceral reflection in Blood Stained Child, this area asks you to slow down, listen closely, and reconnect—with your own roots, and with the soft traces others have left behind.
AREA B: Imagination, Grief, and the Inner Landscape
13. Over Engineered Boats – Hester Poole
14. Wish You Were Here – Richard Barnfather
15. Beaded Remains I – Coral Fowley
16. Blue Asylum – Marta Lichocinska
What stories shape the worlds inside us?
In Area B, the boundaries between memory, imagination, and emotion blur—where grief is stitched into form, and longing becomes a landscape of its own.
This area invites you to explore the deeply personal and often invisible terrains we carry within. These works reflect on mental health, familial bonds, loss, and the stories we tell ourselves to understand where we’ve been—and who we’ve become.
Over Engineered Boats - Hester Poole
Featuring expressive, poetic, and sometimes surreal visual languages, the pieces here conjure memories that are fragile and persistent, full of yearning, humour, and care. Whether through object, colour, or gesture, the artists in Area B offer windows into internal worlds rarely seen.
This is a space of tenderness and introspection—where memory and feeling are material, and where each piece invites you to pause, look inward, and reflect.
AREA C: Family, History, and Acts of Remembrance
17. Leaving Home – Cameron Scott
18. Margaret – Emily Marsh
19. Three-part Drawing – Yonat Nitzan-Green
20. Discovery – Jude Price
What do we inherit?
Area C brings together artists whose work holds space for personal and collective memory—where family histories, cultural identity, and national trauma meet.
Here, remembrance is not static—it is alive, carved, drawn, and honoured. These works explore the strength of intergenerational bonds, the complexity of personal identity, and the act of remembering as something both intimate and political.
What do we choose to remember?
In this area, a grandmother’s name becomes a gesture of strength. A child’s farewell becomes a drawing of departure. A carved village maze maps memory into wood. Together, these pieces reflect how we carry the past into the present—and how creative practice can preserve, question, or reframe it.
AREA D: Steps Toward Healing and Remembering
21. May Day – Elsie Green
22. You and Me I – Mario Lautier-Vella
23. Pray For Me Remember Me Bless Me Sancta Maria – Angel Drinkwater
24. Becoming an artist in 1950s Scotland – Gen Doy
25. Cures for Melancholy – James Choucino
26. On the Road Again – Rebecca Capewell
What does it mean to heal—to carry the past and still move forward?
In Area D, memory becomes an act of care. Through reflection, ritual, and reclamation, these works navigate the slow, personal processes of recovery and remembrance.
This space is rooted in the emotional labour of healing. Whether revisiting family lineage, exploring religious iconography, or wandering back through sunlit days, the artists here consider how we mend ourselves and how we honour what lingers. Healing is not linear—it moves in cycles, like seasons or songs.
What do we keep? What do we grieve? What do we dream into being next?
From the warm haze of Elsie Green’sMay Day to the delicate devotion in Angel Drinkwater’s layered textile, this area reveals the small gestures that tether us to memory. Gen Doy’s reflections on creativity and resilience unfold beside James Choucino’s poetic offerings to melancholy. Together, these works create space for personal restoration and quiet transformation.
