PRIVATE VIEW 3RD OCTOBER 6.30 – 8.30pm

exhibition from 4th – 26th October

Hannah Brown, Gareth Cadwallader,

Benjamin Deakin, Sam Douglas

and Rebecca Partridge

The title for this exhibition is taken from anthropologist, Victor Turner’s 1967 essay,

Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage. Originating from the analysis of initiation rituals, the liminal space is transitional; existing between two states, a threshold at which normal structures are suspended and we enter into the unknown. The term has been used to describe transitional places, in-between regions outside of determined positions. The works here explore landscapes which are both literal and suggestive of psychological or sensory thresholds—which though uncertain, contain,

in Turner’s words; ‘a fertile nothingness, a storehouse of possibilities