Gallery 3

Cocoon - Curator group exhibition

22 April - 3 May 2026

Opening night

24 April | 6 - 8 pm

Gallery Hours:
Wednesday – Sunday: 10 am – 5 pm (please note last day of exhibition ends at 3pm)

CURATOR STATEMENT

Ellen Jury

Cocoon brings together five emerging artists, whose painting and sculptural practices reflect on themes of isolation, preservation and transformation. The works explore how withdrawal, whether physical, metaphorical or digital can generate renewal. A ritual not borne of external pressure, but a necessary stage of becoming.

The cocoon is neither the beginning nor the end, but a threshold suspended in time. It exists in a state of unresolved potential, a paradox. Within frail shrouds tension builds between safety and suffocation, solitude and isolation, preservation and metamorphosis. What is left behind is a fragile yet enduring record of an invisible process, that archives the beauty of impermanence, growth and decay. 

Cocoon invites viewers to pause in that suspended moment and to reflect on their own thresholds of change, offering a space to imagine what might emerge when we allow ourselves to linger in the in-between.

Artists:
Ellen Jury, Maddie Smith, Jasmine Skutela, Julia De Vere and Georgia Robinson