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Use Me: Door
Geo-drawology
Walk Over Me
Untitled
Photoetch on aluminium 300 × 90 × 0.5 cm
Charcoal, paint, PVA 116 × 76 × 6 cm
Video
Oil on canvas 168 × 128 × 3 cm
2025
2025
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art.katy.lucas Katy Lucas
keira_cormack.art Keira Cormack
kenjisakai_87 Kenji Sakai
ktomiak.art Katy Tomiak
Katy Lucas is an artist whose practice explores landscapes through geology, caving and archaeology as gateways to the inner landscape. Working across drawing, sculpture, digital media and painting, Lucas investigates material, human and geological time, layering memory and mark-making into stratigraphic depth. Lucas seeks to connect physical terrains with inner states, offering viewers a meditation on time, memory and the forces that define existence. The surface of Geo-drawology is formed through techniques that echo geological processes shaping the caves that inform the work. The textured, monochromatic surface mimics erosion, sedimentation and deposition, while depth, traces and directionality translate descent into land as something that flows and fluctuates. Merging drawing and geology, the work questions the exchange between landscape and human touch.
Keira Cormack is a Scottish artist whose practice explores identity through Russian heritage, language, nostalgia and migration. Working with fragile materials, paper sculpture, video, sound and writing, Cormack reflects on belonging and disconnection, using breakage as a metaphor for loss and freedom. Cormack’s work seeks to illuminate the struggles of diaspora while creating space for memory, vulnerability and the complexities of in-between states. The Russian doll carries layered narratives, symbolising both personal identity and the figure of Mother Russia in souvenir form. Western perspectives often view Eastern Europe and immigrant identity as lesser, while Russia regards westernised identity in the same way, resulting in discrimination tied to heritage. As the feet of others step across fragments of identity, the work enacts release from stereotypes, prejudice and nationalistic judgements.
Kenji Sakai is a Kyoto-born artist based in London whose practice spans painting, printmaking and sculpture. Drawing on personal experience and a Japanese perspective, Sakai explores the relationship between the individual and the collective, examining the invisible systems that exist between self and other, construction and deconstruction, nature and the city. Using stroke and geometric forms, Sakai visualises unseen structures that reflect both inner unease and broader cultural dynamics. At the core of Kenji Sakai’s practice lies a lifelong fear of death. The work confronts this fear while exploring the notion of a ‘posthumous identity’, the ways a person continues after death. Through painting and sculpture, Sakai gives form to what remains and what vanishes, to the tension between memory illuminated by light and oblivion fading into shadow.
Katy Tomiak is a multimedia artist whose practice explores the ephemerality of human existence through everyday objects. Using functional materials, scanning, photoetching, and screen-printing, Tomiak disrupts function to emphasise presence, addressing memory, absurdity, and mortality. Rendering objects dysfunctional yet familiar, Tomiak invites viewers to reconsider their relationship with ordinary things and reflect on the fragility of existence. Use Me: Door focuses on everyday objects of utility that inevitably outlive human presence. Durable metal emphasises how such objects, touched daily, reveal human ephemerality. Even in human absence, these objects continue to hold presence, embodying traces of functionality and purpose built for use.
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