Timepieces is a show about how time feels – not just how we measure it, but how we experience it. Richard’s work explores the emotional weight of time during a cancer journey, and especially the way time changes while waiting between scans. His sculptures and drawings mark time through drips, fragile structures, and circles of life. Carol’s work looks at time on a cosmic scale, using moonlight to make cyanotypes – slow, quiet images created over hours in the night.

Together, their work invites you to feel time differently: as something personal, universal, heavy, gentle – and deeply human.
Is time something we move through, or something that moves through us? What happens when we stop measuring time in minutes and start feeling it in moments – in drips, in moonlight, in events and experiences?

Carol’s work

Moonlight Cyanotypes (light-sensitive chemicals on paper)

This work explores the idea of time – not as something ticking by on a clock, but as something much deeper and more mysterious – bending, stretching, and flowing differently for each person. 

I love the idea that light is time made visible carrying the story of where it’s been. Moonlight, for example, is sunlight reflected from the surface of the moon – delayed, softened, and scattered. 

For this this series of work I have used cyanotype, a photographic process that reacts to UV light. Most cyanotypes are made using sunlight, which produces strong results quickly. Moonlight slows the process right down– letting the image unfold over many hours. This slower process invites delicate changes and surprising patterns to develop as the chemicals interact in quieter, subtler ways. Each image becomes its own record of time.

In making this work I let go of control: I’m collaborating with time, light, and chemistry, allowing something to emerge under the influence of hidden forces to create quiet landscapes of time itself.

Cosmic Time as my inspiration

Physicist Carlo Rovelli writes that time is not like a big, steady river flowing everywhere. He says time is made from tiny “events” — moments when something happens. These moments connect like a network of dots, and our brains put them in order to create a sense of time passing. He also says that at the smallest scale, time can get fuzzy, like a blurry picture, and might even disappear! So, time isn’t a fixed thing but a way our human brains understand change and connect events in our world.

We can think of time as a moving landscape made up of interconnected events. It’s a reminder that we can never walk in someone else’s shoes, but we can create moments together that will connect us forever.