31 October -
13 December 2025
Gertrude Contemporary
21-31 High Street, Preston SouthOpening event:
Thursday 30 October, 6-8pm
Various Small Fires brings together new and recent works by sixteen artists currently participating in the Gertrude Studio Program. [1] Bookending the organisation’s fortieth anniversary exhibition series, a structured survey of institutional history, the annual studios exhibition reorients attention towards the present.
Departing from the thematic cohesion associated with group surveys, this iteration embraces difference as its guiding impulse. It attends to the distinct ideas, processes, and sensibilities that animate Gertrude’s studio community, foregrounding the generative tensions and affinities that emerge when artistic production occurs in a space that is both private and shared.
The exhibition has been developed by Curator Brigid Moriarty with the Gertrude Studio Artists. Exhibition graphic design by Alex Torcutti.
[1] The title derives from an artist book published by Ed Ruscha in 1964.
Additional Media
Listen to the sound component of Nadia Hernández's work En Todo Tiempo (At All Times) (2024-2025)