10/10/2026
Now open: Palingenesis 🪱
🗓️ 10 October 2026 – 21 February 2027
📍 Wolverhampton Art Gallery
A new exhibition and the first institutional solo show by Wolverhampton-based artist and writer Rachel Magdeburg, bringing together paintings, sculptural paint casts and moving-image works.
Meaning rebirth or regeneration, Palingenesis explores transformation through painting. Inspired by everyday encounters, including a worm found in a packed lunch, the exhibition traces unexpected connections between non-human life, everyday objects and painterly gestures.
Worms, snails, rats, fossils, seaweed and grass recur throughout the exhibition, generating a network of visual associations where one image leads to another. Some forms remain recognisable, while others fragment into gestural marks, glitch-like abstractions and sculptural paint casts.
Working across painting, casting and moving image, Magdeburg combines traditional techniques with exploratory processes, testing the boundaries of painting and image-making. The exhibition also reflects her longstanding interest in ecology and the Anthropocene, bringing together organic forms, manufactured objects and the materials of painting itself.
Born and based in Wolverhampton, Magdeburg is an artist, writer and Lecturer in Fine Art (Painting) at Manchester Metropolitan University. Her research explores the relationship between painting and the Anthropocene, informing a practice that moves between observation, imagination and material experimentation.
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