Two installations by Sarah Needham become one, exploring the dark and light sides of grief through the depth and history of natural pigments.

Working from her experiences and visions in the French painted caves, Sarah creates her own cave, Forgotten Dreams, in the basement — each panel as a vehicle for grief, or a character of grief in conversation with other characters, in a fluid, non linear circulation. Upstairs, Lessons in Living offers a lighter perspective, inviting us to consider the entwined nature of human experience through the ages and the various shades of grief.

“While holding in our hands material pigments that were held in the hands of, or under the feet of, or in the clothes on the backs of people from the past, we hold lost voices across time in an entangled assemblage with the present. There is a way in which we touch and are touched, make change and are changed.

I am listening for the voices that may not have made it to the official record, but that haunt the archives in their absence. The voices, and aliveness, both human and non human that can be found in material and in time touching time.”

The installation includes an audio piece of contemporary women artists talking about grief and desire.

Private View: 23rd October, 5 – 9pm

Dates: 14th October - 2nd October 2025

Location: 56b Old Broad Street, London, EC2M 1RX (2 mins walk from Liverpool Street)