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Past Exhibitions
2026
Monya Riachi A Present Disturbance
Toby Messenger Systems in Collapse2025
Olivia Wiles West Side Story
Catriona Beckett The Guild of Abstraction and Image Making
Anna Lawrence Snail Trail
Sam Della-Valle Big Women Little Men
Ali Farrelly a mean diameter
2024Anna Metzger Teether
John Fletcher Acid Reflux
Group show PAPER
Scott Leeming Didn’t we have a good time?
Gabriella Day The best parts only
Studio holders show MEETING 2
Amanda Seibæk & Zane Drees For Satin Bowerbirds
Kate Holford That unquestionable bloom
Amelia Barratt Cool Ground
Anna Metzger, Maya Levy, Alfie Sellers The Ceiling So Far
Group show A sense of urgency
2023Kirstie Lackie TV Dinners
Studio holders show MEETING
Charlie Hodgson Trade Winds
Antonio Parker-Rees & Phoebe Kerr
Niall McCallum Path Users
Group show World of Wonder
Orla Kane Star face
Jameela Stenheden Gordon-King in jest
Dora Padfield & Liv Fox and now the light is on it

Kate Holford     That unquestionable bloom

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4 - 19 May 2026



That unquestionable bloom began with a series of images collected from various screens, true crime documentaries, and rolls of photographic film which depicted or suggested violent acts or their aftermath. From this collection of images, the artist has produced an installation of works which exploit tensions between clarity and slippage, violence and mundanity, tragedy and muteness.

The work is driven by an attention to gender and the spectre of female peril within landscapes of rural beauty. The exhibition takes a line from Tishani Doshi’s poem “Everybody Loves a Dead Girl” (Girls Are Coming Out of the Woods, 2018) as its title.

Like the figures hidden within the images throughout the exhibition, the text that forms part of the piece The shortest tragedy ever told suggests a narrative experienced which will never fully reveal itself.




Kate Holford is an artist and writer based in Glasgow. She is interested in stories and affects of desire, violence, and melancholia, and the ways image-making can express and manipulate them. Many projects consider these ideas in relation to landscape and extraction. Her research integrates the political potentials of fiction, and of psychoanalysis. She works with painting, installation, drawing, photography and writing. 
Curated by Gabriella Day.
With additional thanks to Pippa Thomas, Scott Leeming, and John Fletcher.

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