In Place explores how landscapes are conveyed through different surfaces. Rather than focusing on traditional views or vistas, the exhibition looks closely at texture, ground, skin, fabric, and photographic grain as ways of understanding place. Landscapes here are not distant scenes, but encounters experienced up close, felt through contact and movement.

Through painting, sculpture, and photography, the exhibition covers process, accumulation, and meticulous attention to material and surface. The works are simultaneously immersive and reflective, prompting consideration of how proximity and materiality shape our understanding of the world.

Alessio Bolzoni presents works from the series PAPERS, a poetic exercise of the gaze. These objects evoke the unseen and its intangible presence. Installed in reflective plastic folders, the works resist visibility, blurring the grain of the images themselves. Nicholas Cheveldave’s new series of paintings investigates the space in which images come into being and are reimagined over time. Drawing from personal experience, the works layer fragmented landscapes, where familiarity and dislocation coexist, inviting viewers into a terrain shaped by perception, recollection, and imagination.

Cassie Vaughan’s disrupted landscapes, built through layered paint and pastel, reflect ecological loss, regeneration, and the legacies of extractivism. Rooted in fragmentation, her work balances destruction and renewal, evoking both the traces of what has been lost and the fragile potential for growth, transformation, and ecological reflection. Louise Oates foregrounds material agency through photography, sculpture, and video, allowing water, rocks, proteins, and chemical processes to act independently.

Deborah Lerner transforms urban surfaces, pavement cracks, shadows, and scuffs through subtle interventions, emphasising the interplay of surface, colour, and light in everyday environments. Tomoya Matsuzaki interrogates how landscape is read and interpreted, bridging traditions of British landscape painting with contemporary experience to offer a vision that is at once familiar and subtly disorienting.

Maisie Cousins fuses beauty and decay, transforming domestic detritus into surreal tableaux that celebrate mess and indulgence. The wasp, often an unwanted guest at picnics, is reproduced here in glorious blown-up detail. Mandy Franca examines the intersection of the digital and physical, layering images with oil pastel to explore migration, memory, and the preservation of traditions.

In Place offers a tactile meditation on how landscapes are constituted through contact, movement, and sensation, presenting place as something lived, navigated, and felt rather than simply seen.

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Special thanks to all the artists, Mark, Helen, Eva and Matthew.