Phantasmal Gallery
Phantasmal Gallery
Spanning over three rooms in the ground floor exhibition space, at 44AD Artspace. Potluck aims to celebrate the uncanny and unconsciousness. Artists Milly Aburrow, Lilly Foster-Eardley & Phantasmal's Daisy-Drew Smith brought together 48 artists, inviting them to explore the dreamlike through a diverse range of mediums.
As two recent graduates and a current students, we understand how important opportunities in the arts are for emerging creatives. Potluck has been an absolutely incredible experience for us as curators as well! Seeing so many extremely talented artists come together and connect, doesn't happen often enough.
44AD Artspace in Bath Spa UK was a fabulous venue, we highly recommend checking them out when you visit Bath Spa.
Featuring artists; Isobel Aarosin, Milly Aburrow, Tess Bacon, Frinin & Bok, Libby Bove, Sam Bryan, Luiza da Motta Horn, Leonor Canelas de Castro, Poppy Cauchi, Liberty Cheverall, Jade Clarke, Charlie Coe, Lucy Davies, Lydia Durnall, Ramona Eve, Lilly foster-eardley, Stephen Foy-Phillip, Susan Francis, Alicia French, Ocean Gavin-Mitchell, Sav Goldman, Jeanne Gourlaouen, Louise Hapton, Emily Hawtin, Shannon Higgins, Jena Jerms, Ellie Johnson, Yula Kim, Kenji Lim, Poppy Maby, Henrietta MacPhee, Max Middlewood, Rachel Mortlock, Keith Pointing, April Robin, Tracy Satchwill, Monet Shot, Daisy-Drew Smith, Xia smith, Alisha Stokes, Eva Sykes, Tess Tallula, Ellie Thomson, Nicolaas Victor, YY Wang, Darcy Whent, Charlotte Young & Diana Zrnic
Please see our instagram introductions for more information on these artists.
Emily Hawtin speaking about their practice at the artist talk on Sunday 14th April
Kenji Lim speaking about their practice at the artist talk on Sunday 14th April
We would like to thank the wonderful people at
Munchies Art Club https://www.munchiesart.club/
HNDL Magazine https://www.instagram.com/hndl_mag/
Haus-A-Rest https://www.haus-a-rest.com/
Moody Zine https://moodythezine.com/
Material Queer https://materialqueer.substack.com/
Teiresian https://teiresian.wixsite.com/teiresian
For covering the exhibition in their publications or on their socials.
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Meet The Curators
Milly Aburrow
She/Her
Milly Aburrow is a recent graduate of Bath Spa University, completing a BA in Fine Art (Hons). Through a playful colour palette and a comical stylisation, her work characterises the parameters of commercialisation, consumerist society, and particularly our contemporary food culture that defines a part of everyone's life. Depicted through mixed media sculpture (materials and techniques dependent on the subject) and installation, she explores food's social commentary, whether it associates with certain symbolisation, power, memory or societal acceptance. Aburrow's work has been exhibited at Bargehouse, OXO Tower Wharf, London, and she was recently the recipient of the 'Kenneth Armitage Young Sculpture Prize 2023' for her degree show installation 'Fill Me In' Sandwich Counter.
Daisy-Drew Smith
She/They
Daisy-Drew Smith works with photography and film, their current work uses photographic prints to create juxtapositions and references to horror movies. Smith is inspired by the surrealist aspects of this kind of cinema, focusing on the dream-like and heightened reality. They are interested in the parallels that stylised horror draws from real events and the effects of trauma. They want to keep true to ‘movie magic’, using editing, lighting and practical effects to create realistic scenes of horror. Smith uses their photos to create fake cinematic universes, they think of their various photo series as different films.
Smith started Phantasmal to after graduating, realising there wasn't enough platforms celebrating horror in art.
Smith's work has been exhibited in various exhibitions, such as; Bargehouse OXO Tower, London and Fox Yard Studio. Various exhibitions in Bath, UK at The Little Theatre Cinema, 44 AD, Bath Artist Studios and Roseberry Studios. As well as magazine and online publications in the last year.
Lilly Foster-Eardley
She/Her
Lilly Foster-Eardley Art practice delves into exploring and interpreting the intricacies of the natural world by sculpting animals and bringing them to life through stylized animation and sculpture. She draws parallels between the natural world and our 21st-century civilization, like our adaptation to the lives we now lead, animals have followed, Emphasizing the feature adaptation of wild creatures within the context of urbanisation. Through this multi-disciplinary practice, she explores an alternate reality where animals take on more human-like characteristics, adjusting their behaviour and their natural habitats to survive the dynamic environment dominated by humans.