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The Ghosts of Nothing, ‘Undertow’ (from ‘Sounds of Unridden Waves’), 2026.Its surface feels submerged: colour builds, re...
15/10/2026

The Ghosts of Nothing, ‘Undertow’ (from ‘Sounds of Unridden Waves’), 2026.

Its surface feels submerged: colour builds, recedes and clouds over itself, holding the eye without ever quite resolving into a fixed image. That instability is central to The Ghosts of Nothing’s wider ‘Sounds of…’ project, where abstraction and saturation are pushed against one another to create dense, ambiguous fields of meaning.

‘Ineffable’ continues Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm, until 24 October.

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Image: The Ghosts of Nothing, ‘Undertow’ (from ‘Sounds of Unridden Waves’), 2026. Oil on canvas, 101.5 × 101.5 cm. Photography: Lucy Foster.

PERFORMANCE: ‘HEOLSTOR’ — KARINA UTOMO + LEWIS GITTUS
Saturday 17 October, 3pmPlease join us for ‘Heolstor’, a live perf...
10/10/2026

PERFORMANCE: ‘HEOLSTOR’ — KARINA UTOMO + LEWIS GITTUS
Saturday 17 October, 3pm

Please join us for ‘Heolstor’, a live performance by Karina Utomo and Lewis Gittus.

‘Heolstor’ is an ongoing collaborative performance project, taking its name from an archaic term for darkness, concealment or a hidden recess. Conceived as a sonorous grotto in which non-visible realms become manifest, the work brings Utomo’s extra-normal vocal practice into dialogue with Gittus’ explorations of synthesis, resonance and corporeal sound.

This new iteration expands the work through demung and gong, bringing the resonant properties of bronze into an evolving interplay of voice, contact microphones and synthesis. Through vibration, resonance and accumulation, ‘Heolstor’ creates a space in which sound is encountered as a fleeting material presence.

Presented as part of ‘Ineffable’, curated by Kim Donaldson with Jiayang Zhang.

‘Ineffable’ is on view until 24 October 2026.

Chaohui Xie’s ‘Gilded’ series brings together digital print, laminated glass and mirror, layering photographs of her lat...
27/09/2026

Chaohui Xie’s ‘Gilded’ series brings together digital print, laminated glass and mirror, layering photographs of her late father’s Chinese ink paintings with colour, reflection and her own interventions.

The images were made from paintings Xie photographed as they were being lost, preserving them at a threshold between presence and disappearance. Through the mirrored surface, the viewer is briefly folded into these surviving traces, keeping memory, authorship and grief unresolved and in motion.

On view in ‘Ineffable’ until 24 October.

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Images, left to right: Chaohui Xie, ‘Gilded Blue Memory’, ‘Gilded Past’ and ‘Gilded Red Memory’, 2025. Digital print on laminated glass and mirror, 60 × 40 cm each.

Project8 will be closed this Friday, 25 September, for the public holiday.We reopen Saturday, 26 September, with INEFFAB...
22/09/2026

Project8 will be closed this Friday, 25 September, for the public holiday.

We reopen Saturday, 26 September, with INEFFABLE on view as usual.

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Photo by Lucy Foster

A few moments from the opening of ‘Ineffable’ at Project8.Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday evening ✨Featuri...
22/09/2026

A few moments from the opening of ‘Ineffable’ at Project8.

Thank you to everyone who joined us on Friday evening ✨

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Photos by Lucy Spencer Lucy Foster

‘Ineffable’ continues this week at Project8.Oil paint is applied over a photograph of an original 1999 painting in The G...
21/09/2026

‘Ineffable’ continues this week at Project8.

Oil paint is applied over a photograph of an original 1999 painting in The Ghosts of Nothing’s Aflame, 2026. Part of the ongoing Sounds of… series, the work sits within a broader investigation of abstraction and saturation, bringing disparate elements into close contact to create layered and open-ended meanings.

On view until 24 October. Wednesday–Saturday, 11am–5pm.

Image: The Ghosts of Nothing, Aflame (from Sounds of Fire), 2026. Oil paint on photograph of original 1999 painting, 38.5 × 43.5cm (framed). Photo by Lucy Foster Lucy Foster

‘Ineffable’ opens this Friday, 18 September, 6–8pm.Lewis Gittus’ The Mysteries of Udolpho: Volume 4, Chapters I to IV, 2...
15/09/2026

‘Ineffable’ opens this Friday, 18 September, 6–8pm.

Lewis Gittus’ The Mysteries of Udolpho: Volume 4, Chapters I to IV, 2026, draws on Gothic romantic literature through processes of obfuscation, with text overwritten and blacked out to introduce absence and uncertainty into the act of reading.

On view 19 September–24 October.

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Image: Lewis Gittus, ‘The Mysteries of Udolpho’, 2026. An Oxford World Classics 1966 edition of Ann Radcliffe’s The Mysteries of Udolpho, altered with permanent markers and water-based inks, 670 × 260. Courtesy of the artist.

Claire Lehmann for ‘Ineffable’Beginning with copper sheeting, Lehmann folds and unfolds the metal before casting the res...
13/09/2026

Claire Lehmann for ‘Ineffable’

Beginning with copper sheeting, Lehmann folds and unfolds the metal before casting the result in wax. The wax is then manipulated by hand and lost-wax cast in solid bronze. Approaching metal as though it were paper, the works began with an interest in making a painting out of bronze. Studio Lehmann

‘INEFFABLE’ opens Friday 18 September, 6–8pm.
On view 19 September–24 October.

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Portrait: Isabella Capezio. Studio images: Claire Lehmann.

Project8 Presents: INEFFABLEOpening Friday 18 September, 6–8pm.'Ineffable' draws together artists working with the hard ...
11/09/2026

Project8 Presents: INEFFABLE
Opening Friday 18 September, 6–8pm.

'Ineffable' draws together artists working with the hard to describe, almost impossible to articulate and the unexplainable. This can mean following a particular feeling or teasing out something vague or yet to be articulated. It is the ground that keeps changing shape as you run across it and the dream that cannot quite be remembered. There are no firm definitions here, with the indefinable travelling through sound, shape, texture or sensation.

Featuring: The Ghosts of Nothing, Lewis Gittus, Claire Lehmann, Christopher Theofanous, Karina Utomo and Chaohui Xie.

Curated by Kim Donaldson with Jiayang Zhang.

Exhibition continues 19 September–24 October.

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