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 Gatherer Opening: 28 May 2026 at 17:00 - 28 June 2026 Participating: Mandy Johnston Between 9 and 28 May the exhibition will be open, and the artist will be working on installation artworks in situ. She welcomes visitors to observe her process in this time. Please contact the gallery for times she will be available.
To enter Mandy Johnston’s work is to encounter a field of slowed attention where perception sharpens through quiet, material transformation. Meaning accumulates gradually. It is gathered. The installations hum, flicker and shift, drawing attention to processes that often unfold beyond immediate perception. These are spaces of transition, where matter softens, form destabilises and the visible meets its underlying conditions.
Johnston locates herself within a transitional middle phase, where the intensity of fire continues to shape the work while gestures of emergence begin to surface. Within this in-between, gathering becomes a way of processing, repositioning and preparing for what follows. Materials are gathered and reworked, holding both physical trace and energetic memory.
Working within a cyclical understanding of time, Johnston situates gathering as a moment that follows rupture and precedes renewal. It is a space of recouping, where what remains is revalued. Like soil enriched by ash, the aftermath becomes fertile. The installations function as responsive environments that hold ambiguity, tension and transition. They invite a sustained engagement with transformation as an ongoing condition. In this space, gathering becomes a way of holding what has been while making space for what is still to come.
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