Exhibitions

What Persists

Friday 10th April - Saturday 6th June 2026

Victoria Ahrens / James Lumsden / Johanna Melvin / Fleur Patrick / David Penny / Daniel Rapley / Dafna Talmor / Hendrik Zeitler

This inaugural group exhibition at Vibrant Matter brings together artists whose practices are grounded in sustained engagement with the material conditions of their chosen media. Rather than treating material as a neutral vehicle, the works presented here explore it as an active presence – one that informs, resists and shapes the work as it comes into being.

Across abstraction and representation, the artists work in dialogue with their chosen media — responding to the inherent characteristics of photographic materials, the viscosity of paint, the texture of surfaces. Decisions emerge slowly, shaped as much by material behaviour as by intention. In this sense, making becomes a reflective investigation, where outcomes are often discovered rather than forced.