02 December 2024 - 21 February 2025
10:00am - 4:00pm
Free
Verena Holmes Building, North Holmes Rd, Canterbury CT1 1QB
A new exhibition by Kath Abiker, in the Verena Holmes Gallery.
“Water does not resist. Water flows. When you plunge your hand into it, all you feel is a caress. Water is not a solid wall, it will not stop you. But water always goes where it wants to go, and nothing in the end can stand against it. Water is patient. Dripping water wears away a stone. Remember that my child. Remember you are half water. If you can't go through an obstacle, go around it. Water does.”
― Margaret Atwood, The Penelopiad
Inspired by narrative motifs in Margaret Atwood’s novella The Penelopiad, Kath Abiker has developed a series of atmospheric abstract ’scapes’ which are imaginings of places, spaces and phenomena connected to themes of nature, concepts of female agency, sexuality, ambiguous power and the supernatural.
Join us for a drinks reception to celebrate the exhibition on Friday 13 December.
