‘Marking Time’ continues a visual conversation between four artists Sandra Beccarelli, Miranda Boulton, Alison Critchlow and Una D'Aragona, which began in January 2020 when they gave an artist’s talk together at the University of Cambridge. Our first exhibition, ‘Beating Time’ at the ARB Building, Cambridge, considered the area shared by poet and painter. It proposed a resonance across art forms.

‘Marking Time’ delves further into this territory, deepening the discussion and allowing it to seep into the place beyond words, beyond paintings. Spaces between exhibits will be treated as ‘active gaps’, opening up pauses and rhythms-allowing boundaries to blur and bulge. We intend to prod and poke at our many ideas and thoughts, revealing and questioning the evolving conversation.

Seamus Heaney’s poem ‘Markings’ has provided a frame of reference for the exhibition.

‘All things entered you

As if they were both the door and what came through it

They marked the spot, marked time and held it open’

Private View 6 - 8pm on Thursday 6th October

Artists Talk 2 - 4pm on Staurday 15th October