Alien Shores

9 Jul-7 Sep 2025

Overview

Curated by Susanna Greeves

‘Alien Shores’ explores landscape as a place of memory, imagination, yearning and belonging. Through painting, video, photography and sculpture, it offers speculative, symbolic or surreal depictions of emotional terrain and voyages of the imagination; visions of the distant past or possible futures. These are landscapes once removed: shaped by emotional distance, filtered through technology, mythology or abstraction.

In a time of ecological crisis and accelerating technological evolution, the once-familiar ground beneath us feels increasingly unstable. The artists included in ‘Alien Shores’ envision landscape as a space of inquiry - where physical geography gives way to metaphorical, psychological, philosophical and futuristic realms. These worlds reflect both our alienation from nature and our enduring need to locate ourselves within it.

Featured Artists: Etel Adnan, Alia Ahmad, Darren Almond, Harold Ancart, Michael Armitage, Milton Avery, Sholto Blissett, Glenn Brown, Lynne Drexler, Pranay Dutta, Fernanda Galvão, Noémie Goudal, Ken Gun Min, David Hockney, Hung Fai, Sky Hopinka, Shara Hughes, Marguerite Humeau, Eva Jospin, Anselm Kiefer, Richard Mayhew, Joan Nelson, Isamu Noguchi, Bagus Pandega and Kei Imazu, Emilio Perez, Marina Rheingantz, Cinga Samson, Tomás Sánchez, Emma Webster, Takako Yamaguchi, Alyina Zaidi and Robert Zehnder.