Cora Li-Leger, Seed Coat (maple) (detail), 2024, maple seeds and thread.
A Tangled Thicket
Experience paintings and handcrafted installations by four Surrey artists that explore the relationship between nature and the human mind.
Lesley Garratt, Willa Downing, Cora Li-Leger, and Claire Moore
“In the face of ever greater automization and social stratification, Z·inc proposes a radical creative togetherness imagined through the lives of artworks and the people who make, use, and respond to them.”
— Curator, Rhys Edwards
April 5 — Exhibition opens to the Public
April 26 — Art party opening celebration
May 8 — Objects for Pondering workshop
June 7 — Exhibition tour and reading with Aislinn Hunter
June 8 — Last day of the exhibition
“Z·inc Artist Collective (Willa Downing, Lesley Garratt, Cora Li-Leger, and Claire Moore) are united by a profound passion for community, craft, natural materials, and ecological consciousness. A long-standing presence in Surrey art communities, the group has supported collaborative artmaking initiatives with an extended network of creatives and the public at large for over a decade.”
— Curator, Rhys Edwards
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- Willa Downing, Rearranged Landscapes (detail)
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- Lesley Garratt, From Telling Narratives (detail)
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- Cora-Li-Leger, A Starry Night (detail)
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- Claire Moore, Running on Sunlight (detail)
“A Tangled Thicket captures the ethos of connectivity that lies at the heart of Z·inc’s practice. Drawing on theories of ecology, neuroscience, and ontology (the study of being itself), each artist expounds on the interconnection between nature and the human mind and how they are embedded within and shaped by each other.”
— Curator, Rhys Edwards