Platform 20: Heavy Water, Site Gallery.

Platform 20 featured the work of five Sheffield based artists: James Clarkson, Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas, Conor Rogers and Joanna Whittle. The multi-venue exhibition at Site Gallery, Yorkshire Artspace and Bloc Projects presented a fascinating insight into the artists’ work developed during their two-year residency with Sheffield’s visual arts organisations.

Heavy Water at Site Gallery is a homecoming – a collective return from relative isolation to the land. The group exhibition explores humanity, transience and the lure of the natural world; from rituals of mourning to the secrets of matriarchal moss colonies and the historic migration of humans across lands in the
search of peace, of freedom.

Presenting work in progress developed during their time on the Freelands Artists’ Programme, Maud Haya-Baviera, Victoria Lucas and Joanna Whittle’s interdisciplinary exhibition weaves historical narratives with fiction and mysticism.

Co-curated with Angelica Sule, Artistic Director at Site Gallery.