millimetre: There

21 May-13 Jun 2026

PV 20 May 2026, 6-9pm

Overview

Temsuyanger Longkumer, Evan Thomas, Maiko Tsutsumi

millimetre is an exhibition space contained within a single picture frame. Devised by artists Finlay Taylor and Kate Scrivener, this space for group exhibitions forces invited curators to consider and exploit scale, intimacy and the close juxtaposition of artworks.

A small branch of hazel, a painted surface, here note a sense of place or origin, a fragment of home perhaps. These things hold a sense of time, a journey of some sort, time spent in making and movement in doing or action. A spoon honed from hazel wood cut from a tree in the artist Maiko Tsutsumi’s garden and gifted to a newly born baby to travel with in life. Not knowing if it will be chewed or lost, treasured or join the other cutlery in a draw.

A painting whispers its makers initial impressions across the canvas, conjuring colour and forms into being, a growth of flowers and leaves, a mist of wall surface and lights are the impressions that Evan Thomas brings into being, a place where interior and the outside can be passed between if you try hard enough.

Temsu Longkumer feels his way into the territory of folklore and the natural world, his personal story and those passed down a cultural line are absorbed, for him to speculate and imagine upon further as he tangles plant migration, ghost stories or forest beings.

There is a connection to the natural world here, direct and reliant on human interactions that have shifted that connection in a distinct manner, reforming or rephrasing the original observation or origin.

Sited together with an old photo of bamboo farmers in Kyoto from roughly 150 years ago, a history of reliance and manipulation is present and the attachment to all living things on the surface of this planet is palpable, essential, the past breathes into the present.