Pace the Shallow Sea – Gallery exhibition showcases our new studio artists

Our latest exhibition, Pace the Shallow Sea, 2026 features a curated selection of works from the oeuvre of Paul Good and Kirsty Wood, our newest studio artists.

I pace the shallow sea, walking the time between, reflecting on the type of fossil I’d like to be. I guess I’d like my bones to be replaced by some vivid chert, a red ulna or radius, or maybe preserved as the track of some lug-soled creature locked in the sandstone- how did it walk, what did it eat, and did it love sunshine?
― Ann Zwinger, Downcanyon: A Naturalist Explores the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon

This exhibition brings together works that have inhabited other spaces at other times, an obvious statement, possibly, but as installation artists, past exhibitions have held a specific moment in which they are presented, temporal rather than permanent, a culmination of ‘current’ ideas the artists are working through.

James Hutton’s a 18th century Scottish geologists vision of deep time imagined the Earth not as a fleeting creation, but as an ancient, restless world shaped by the slow choreography of wind, water, fire, and stone—its story unfolding across stretches of time so vast that, in his words, there was “no vestige of a beginning, no prospect of an end.”

Trails of time weave connections through each piece, the past, ever present. The aftermath of a past performance marks a particular turning point in the artist’s early work, the captured energy being felt after the event, a projection of the past tense.

In the dimly lit space, a video of a boat graveyard plays, in hushed rhythms a spectre laments ‘this isn’t a burial’, rotting hulls rest in suspended stillness, their frames exposed like skeletons, ribs arcing upward against the sky. Stripped of their skin, they resemble carcasses picked clean. They appear ghostly, hovering between presence and disappearance, as though the memory of their former voyages still lingers in their corroded frames. The low light and enveloping sound create an immersive atmosphere where human and geological histories converge, and the weight of deep time becomes almost tactile.

The space is punctuated by other works that echo and expand these concerns. Material fragments, subtle interventions, and recurring motifs weave together the artists’ ongoing investigations into impermanence, transformation, and the porous boundary between the built environment and the natural world. Together, the works form a contemplative terrain one that invites viewers to linger within cycles of erosion, displacement, and return.

Paul Good and Kirsty Wood are a collaborative duo whose practice spans over two decades. Beginning in performance, their work has since expanded to encompass film, sound, and sculptural installation. Over time, their approach has grown increasingly technically complex, with a sustained focus on sound as terrain and audio as a sculptural medium.

Working site-specifically, they create immersive multimedia installations shaped by the environments they inhabit. Their practice attends to traces of past and present, rendering absence tangible and giving material form to the ephemeral.

Since 2016, their sound works have been acquired by the British Library and are held within the British Sound Archive. They have performed at the Institute of Contemporary Arts (ICA), London, and, in conjunction with their 2017 solo exhibition Stale Air, in a Room, before Motion at SE8 Gallery, were featured in performance and interview on Wavelengthfor Resonance FM. In 2023, they released an EP with Tremolo Projects. Their most recent solo exhibition, Rest Your Psalms Against the Skin, opened at Classwarroom, London, in November 2024.

Read more about Kirsty and Paul here.  For your chance to meet with them, pop along to our next artists’ open studios event on Sunday 22nd March, 12pm-5pm, free entry.  Find out more.