Ex-Libris Gallery, Fine Art Building, University of Newcastle upon Tyne. 23 October- 10th November 2023The exhibition, ‘in betweens’, brings together the work of Deborah Gardner and Eirini Boukla to consider uncertainty and flux between process and outcome, employing craft, collage, and sculptural assemblage as modes of making to perplex set categories of art disciplines and their material form. Networks, overlaps and connectives are structural devices in this body of work, which are inspired by such things as the study of plant growth structures, energy conductive systems, and the influence of applied making as a source for spontaneous and fluid movement in space, which breaks away from rigid underpinning

Repurposed materials, such as electrical waste and cardboard, are frequently used in the exhibition to explore the generative power of materials to create new meanings. Colour is pivotal and often adds an unspecified or more frantic element to the narrative of these works. Each colour has a physical or compositional role in determining the final systems and structures.