Exhibition details: Residue

Friday 20th February 2025 - Opening Night 6 pm -7.30pm

Open 21 February – 5 March. Open daily 10.30am -3.30pm, Saturdays 9am - 3.30pm, final day open until 12.30pm

Artists: Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, Christine den Hartogh, Howard Esler

Step into Residue, a new exhibition of textiles, paper, wire, metal sculpture and photography. Three artists transform fragments, traces and discarded materials into evocative works exploring memory, decay and transformation. Discover the beauty

of what remains after time and process leave their mark through the art of Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, Christine den Hartogh and Howard Esler.

‘Residue’, invites viewers to look closely at what remains after process and time have left their mark. Combining textile, wire, metal, sculpture, photography, the exhibition offers a layered experience of materials transformed by fire, rust, memory and touch. Visitors are encouraged to explore how each artist reimagines traces and fragments as objects of beauty, curiosity and meaning. The artists are Alysn Midgelow-Marsden, Christine den Hartogh and

Howard Esler each of whom will present their distinctly different styles yet creating a cohesive response to the title ‘Residue’. 

Alysn’s gilded, and patinated drawings and sculptural forms in wire and metal meshes and cloths are inspired by emotional connections. Christine’s explorations of beach treasures, patterns left in the sand after high tide in photography and botanical

and rust printing are woven together with discarded materials into a cohesive whole.

Howard presents a ladder sculpture and series of America’s Cup boats reimagined in rusty No8. In addition, each artist has created an exhibition specific work from jointly shared materials and objects, showing the connections though the individual physical practices and conceptual merging as they consider the idea of ‘residue’.