Ouroboros
Ebor Studio Associate Members Show 2026
April 11th - 26th by appointment
Preview - Saturday the 11th April 12 - 3pm
Artwork Snapshots - micro talks from exhibiting artists - Wednesday the 22nd April 7pm
Ouroboros, the serpent that devours its own tail, is an ancient symbol of continuity and transformation, of endings returning to beginnings.
In this exhibition, the works of Ebor Studios’ Associate members enter into a dialogue around cycles, cyclical processes, recursive thinking and material metamorphosis. What emerges is a tapestry of practices that speak to time’s layered textures.
The artists gathered here trace individual paths, with a common aim; to explore their experience of the world in all its wonderful complexity.
Across the exhibition, a range of practices approaches the idea of the cyclical from different material and conceptual positions. Paintings and drawings from Cat Lee and Chris Leach play with meticulous mark making. They layer surfaces, repeat motifs and carefully render imagery until their works become a record of time passing rather than a fixed moment.
Maryanne Royle and John Bonner show sound, moving image and installation works that play with repetition and return, using loops, echoes, and accumulated textures to create compositions. The conceptual works of Babs Smith and Natalie Sharp revisit stories, ideas and beliefs and reframe and represent them through their own unique lenses.
Materiality is explored through Helen Davies’ textiles, Ste Cranston’s collage and Angela Tait’s ceramics. In each maker’s practice there is a suggestion of performance in the making process. Through their works we are connected to the rhythms of their bodies during the transformation of their raw materials into something other.
In photography Abi Black, Rahela Khan and Esther Towler capture their place in the world. Photography in itself is an inherently reflective process, where light is returned, events are mirrored, and moments are folded back on themselves, allowing each image to hold both the instant of its making and an echo of what has already passed.
Together, this assembly of voices does more than reflect on repetition or return, it gestures toward the heart of a creative practice. What is made is always, in some ways, revisited, unmade and remade.
In Ouroboros, the end is indistinguishable from the beginning, and somewhere in that indistinction creative possibilities exist.
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A brilliant day for all ages to enjoy, hopefully see you there!
Big love, Lindsey 💜
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