02/10/2026
OPENING THIS WEEKEND!!!!!
4th of October 2pm - 4pm
Elizabeth Wade and Nicole Tomlinson
Creaturely
Creaturely. Our shared physical existence with all life on earth, our vulnerability and basic biological needs - food, rest, breath.
All creatures on earth are connected. The richness of forms in nature: life in all its joy and diversity and strangeness. We don’t need to look to outer space for the weird and wonderful… even now we discover new life forms and phenomena every day. Our connection is also emotional. Guardian, mask and monster figures suggest beings created to protect, but also to embody the anxieties they are meant to contain, becoming externalisations of grief, fear, loneliness or the desire for protection and resilience. Clay is earth (dust) and water, completed by the element of fire. Star dust, mysteriously
animated to form life... Nicole and Liz invoke this alchemy in their Creaturely collaboration.
Nicole Tomlinson
Nicole Tomlinson is a ceramics tutor, studio tech and potter. For her, to participate in making ceramics is to engage with the story of the human hand, of the earliest forms of mechanisation, of the elemental materiality of earth, water and fire and the intrinsically human impulse to express, capture and create.
In her functional work Nicole explores the idea of the Total Art Environment where objects of utility or contemplation enrich everyday life and challenge the art/craft binary. In this body of work Nicole explores the emotional landscapes of childhood, vulnerability and protection through a cast of guardians, monsters, masks and imagined companions. The work asks where protection ends and fear begins, and whether the creatures we invent to guard us might be parts of ourselves.
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