What remains after the flames?

Embers is an exploration of what endures, the quiet glow that survives beneath the surface after intensity, loss, and transformation. It speaks to the subtle resilience that lingers after disruption, and the creative force that emerges in its wake.

At the heart of the exhibition are large-scale impact works, including Wildfire and I Hope It’s What You Want, two walls painted to the track “Wildfire” by Cautious Clay. These pieces evoke a shift from inner ignition to outer vulnerability, inviting reflection on what it means to be open to what kindles our heart’s flame.

Alongside these major works are 30 new paintings. Among the works in Embers is a series painted in rose gold, pearl white, softened magenta, and luminous gold colours, offset by brief moments of brown, chosen not just for their radiance, but for their resonance. These paintings are inspired by the enduring embers of the child, the mother, and the grandmother, moments and memories that don’t extinguish with time. Instead, they continue to glow quietly within us, shaping who we are. Each layer speaks to a different kind of inheritance: emotional, relational, and generational. These works honour the subtle, often invisible forces that endure through love, care, rupture, and repair, the lasting impressions that help form our inner world.

Embers also features a video work by Scott Ross, a meditative unfolding of memory and landscape, where flame flickers through like breath returning to the body.

Included is a series of community pieces created during workshops with residents of The Gladstone and the Romulus Folio Gallery community. Together, these works form a chorus of resurgence, a creative reckoning with what we carry, what we shed, and what is quietly rekindled.

This exhibition is dedicated to my 95 year old grandmother, Nonna, a force of nature