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HOLDING
PATTERN

It’s been a year of tumult and stasis: we’ve held ourselves, through our various experiences, in the repetitive cycle of waiting, watching, resolving anew. Nothing much happened, everything happened. And we stayed at home.

Home is the vessel of our safety, our dreams, securities, mundanities and frustrations. Homes and habitats burned; the homeless were still homeless. There has been a lot to carry, endure and resist.

The vessel holds life, space and resources, yet it’s also a repository of hope and feeling; carried in these works are the artists’ hopes that there is still time for a new conversation.

Holding Pattern is a collection of three artists’ works responding to the uncertain climate of 2020. Through a diversity of mediums, Rachael Rose, Jess Rae and Sarah Stewart express their experience and understanding of home, vulnerability, hope and resilience.

Rachael Rose is a visual artist working in mixed media

Jess Rae is a ceramicist, using a combination of wild and refined clay

Sarah Stewart is a jewellery maker working with mixed metals and found materials