All Utopias

30 Jan-21 Mar 2026

Anna Harris, How I wrested a wild-oat seed from its husk

Overview

All Utopias brings together work by Bridgette Ashton, Anna Harris and Emma Saffy Wilson.

The exhibition grows from the artists’ shared fascination with systems of classification and hierarchy — how we organise, label and make sense of the world, and how these systems can slip, overlap or unravel. Inspired by Georges Perec’s essay Think/Classify, All Utopias explores the question, how do we think when we seek to classify? through a collection of sculptures, prints, collages and objects.

Bridgette Ashton explores themes of collectors and collections, alongside notions of the fake and the artificial. Often working in response to sites, objects and archives, her work reflects on the ways histories and artefacts are framed, ordered and valued.

Anna Harris is interested in material agencies and in decentralising the human point of view. Her work frequently centres on stone, a material that sits at the intersection of nonhuman and human timescales — shaped by deep geological processes yet entangled in the speed of extractive capitalism. Through this lens, she questions systems of geological taxonomy and hierarchy.

Emma Saffy Wilson works with clay, dirt and discarded materials, transforming what is overlooked into objects of quiet reverence. Inspired by the ambiguity of ancient places and small museum artefacts, her slow, intuitive process elevates the humble and the broken, challenging ideas of permanence, beauty and worth.