16/06/2026
Opening this week: ‘Phantasms & Frequencies’ , the second exhibition in the Maternity Series.
18 June - 5 July
Open Thursday - Sunday, 11am - 4pm
Or by appointment
At Liminal Gallery, 34 Fort Hill, Margate, CT9 1HD
Private View: Saturday 20th June, 6-8pm
Generously sponsored by Picoso
Phantasms & Frequencies is a collection of new ceramic sculptures that give material form more commonly encountered in music, poetry and drama. Through it fictional narratives emerge from a sensitivity to experience, translated into fleeting impressions and a language of form that is at once intuitive and complex.
The work remains closely tied to the material labour of transformation, making use of reclaimed clays and recycled glazes. Absorbing references from landscape, the body, and partially formed sounds and sensations encountered in dream like states, the moments just before waking. Images arise in quick succession, a rush of energy followed by a quiet calm, or even emptiness. These are glimpses, sudden and fleeting; a starless sky that is not entirely void; a field imagined in a future state, marked by scars of extraction; a body crystallised into the landscape.
Within these dreamlike terrains appears the ghost of Pandora, the figure from Greek mythology created as the first woman. Pandora was given a vessel resembling a large storage jar, originally imagined as a clay pot, and instructed never to open it. Overcome by curiosity, she lifted the lid and released countless evils into the world. Only at the last moment did she close the vessel again, leaving Hope inside, preserved either as a fragile comfort for humanity, or, on another interpretation, as the greatest deception of all, prolonging human suffering.
