CERTAINTY//MAYBE

About

 Brought together here for the first time, both artists explore boundary spaces and the ways humans impose order on the world, drawing on lived experience, otherness and outsider perspectives. Scoular is interested in challenging the distinction between natural and unnatural, linking this to Queer theory and narratives of control; in Schreiner’s work, visitors are invited to consider divisions between religion and science, proof and fiction.  

Oktavia Schreiner was raised in a scientific, atheist family in Berlin and moved as a child to a mediaeval, Catholic town in Southern Italy where, to understand her surroundings, she began to make up her own religion. Schreiner became fascinated with rituals and how these affect the way that people live. Her ceramic sculptures still explore different modes of understanding, straddling logic and ‘fiction’; truth and knowledge. 

Murphy Scoular argues that conceptual divisions between natural and man-made have been used for hundreds of years to create a hierarchy.  The perceived value and complexities of man’s craftsmanship have been used to justify the existence of God and to create the illusion that man is not only separate to but above nature. 

Be prepared to be amazed by some large ceramic sculptures and big archways!

Come and join us on the 24th of March at 3pm for an opening celebration with the artists.