Traces, Ruptures, Returns:  The Mirror Gallery, Arts University Plymouth.

This exhibition brings together new works by members of the Memory, Site, Artefact Research Group that respond to the instability of site in the face of ecological collapse, displacement, gentrification, and contested memory. Here, site is not a fixed or stable location but an unstable and plural condition: layered, fragmented, spectral. Land disappears under rising seas. Communities are uprooted by conflict, extraction, or redevelopment. Geographies are remapped and monetised by systems indifferent to lived experience. And with these losses come fractures in memory and continuity, where what was once embodied and material survives only in fragments, hauntings, or returns.

Contact Points

On show now and throughout September 2026, as part of Traces, Ruptures, Returns group exhibition.  

Contact Points explores the shifting roles of the observer and the observed within the gallery.  Instead of passively viewing, audiences are watched by the digital screen, which tracks and responds to their presence. A watchful eye follows the viewer’s movement, cutting through a curtain of vertical lines that bend and distort in response to each interaction. This exchange disrupts traditional boundaries between viewer and object, raising questions of surveillance, agency, and intimacy. By reversing the direction of observation, Contact Points confronts the politics of visibility and asks how it feels when the artwork itself is watching you?