Fragments

View an inspiring exhibition examining how fragmented pieces - whether physical, emotional or conceptual - can come together to create something greater than the sum of their parts. The works by seven artists from the Art 9 collective are inspired by the forces of nature, such as the relentless reshaping of remote shores through coastal erosion, and the way these processes mirror the fluid connections that bind us to the earth.

At the same time, the exhibition delves into interior landscapes - fragments of thought and emotion that emerge from within. Detached from any visual connection to the outer world, these works seek to bring harmony to the chaos of the mind, transforming disarray into unity.

Fragments invites viewers to reflect on the interplay between the physical and the emotional, the individual and the collective, and the enduring human drive to find order and meaning in life’s fragments.

All the work in the exhibition is available to buy, unless annotated.

Please note that King’s Manor is closed on Sundays.

The exhibition is presented by the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre which is funded by a Leverhulme International Professorship and located in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York.

You may also be interested in the Fragments exhibition launch on Saturday 31 May when you can enjoy a short talk and chat with the artists. 

Image credit: Ceramic artwork by Emma Saul

About the artists

Art 9 is a collective of diverse artists, each contributing their unique vision and practice to the collaborative exhibition Fragments.

Lucy Gow, painter. Lucy’s practice revolves around the landscape, exploring scenes and developing images from the internal emotions, memories, associations and response to a place.

Tina Hazell, painter. Tina is a painter in acrylics that looks at microscopic images as a suspension of shapes with no set orientation and no fixed focal points to create work with diffused repetitions and a weightless, ethereal atmosphere which starts in the science realm but shifts the direction of the subject matter through the processes, interpretation and elective responses.

Sarah Hutt, painter. Sarah is a contemporary landscape artist who captures the ebb and flow of coastlines, seeking a place for souls to rest. She paints to capture the coastal erosion that frames our landscape and the perspective that gives when considering our journey through life.

Angela Parker, painter. Angela is a process painter working with watercolour exploring patterns that form as colours run into each other and spread unpredictably, and highlighting those changes with ink.

Colin Procter, painter. Colin is a painter whose recent work draws on his fascination with the modern world and urban life, deconstructing everyday objects and scenes into fragmented, playful designs that reimagine the familiar as something new and unexpected.

Emma Saul, painter and potter. Inspired by open landscapes and their history and stories, Emma works in oils and mixed media to paint vibrant experimental semi abstracted landscapes that speak to our sense of place. Her ceramics are also landscape based, invoking the land itself in the materials used and developing that love of spontaneity and experimentation.

Katrina Solano, painter. Katrina produces captivating work specialising in vibrant landscapes and abstract creations in acrylics and oils.