GUISERS
Tom Platt, Libby Bove & Lucy Wright
@haarlemartspace
Pictured- Tom Platt’s Things 1,2 & 3 flanked by Lucy Wright’s banners, Just because you haven’t heard of it & Stuff isn’t better when middle-class people do it
Costume, folklore and speculative ritual come together in this exhibition, which takes its name from the seasonal tradition of ‘guising’—a form of folk performance rooted in disguise, play and transformation.
GUISERS
1 August – 14 September 2025
Open Friday-Sunday 12-5 Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
📸 @willslater53
#Guisers #HaarlemArtspace #LibbyBove #LucyWright #TomPlatt #ContemporaryFolklore #RoadsideMagic #FolkCustoms #Wirksworth
GUISERS
Tom Platt, Libby Bove & Lucy Wright
@haarlemartspace
Pictured- Lucy Wright’s, Rushcart (details)
Costume, folklore and speculative ritual come together in this exhibition, which takes its name from the seasonal tradition of ‘guising’—a form of folk performance rooted in disguise, play and transformation.
GUISERS
1 August – 14 September 2025
Open Friday-Sunday 12-5 Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
📸 @willslater53
#Guisers #HaarlemArtspace #LibbyBove #LucyWright #TomPlatt #ContemporaryFolklore #RoadsideMagic #FolkCustoms #Wirksworth
GUISERS
Tom Platt, Libby Bove & Lucy Wright
@haarlemartspace
Pictured- Tom Platt’s ’Things’ with Libby Bove’s Fuse Queen’s Mask
Costume, folklore and speculative ritual come together in this exhibition, which takes its name from the seasonal tradition of ‘guising’—a form of folk performance rooted in disguise, play and transformation.
GUISERS
1 August – 14 September 2025
Open Friday-Sunday 12-5 Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
📸 @willslater53
#Guisers #HaarlemArtspace #LibbyBove #LucyWright #TomPlatt #ContemporaryFolklore #RoadsideMagic #FolkCustoms #Wirksworth
🌿 Perennial returns this Friday 🌿
Our summer exhibition Perennial reopens on Friday 27 June at Haarlem Artspace.
Pictured here is the Perennial Wreath, created by Haarlem Director Sarah Armstrong — a symbolic gathering of the seasonal, the ritual, and the handmade.
Open Fridays & Saturdays, 11–5
Haarlem Artspace, Wirksworth
On view until 13 July
With work by:
Abbie Canning · Aisling Ward · Alison Ballard · Amanda Nichol · Amanda Wray · Amy Rupall · Andrea Hytch · Andrew Bracey · Anna Boyd · Anna Mawby · Anna McQuillin · Anna Spear · Ashley Gallant · Beth Kettel · Bernie Rutter · Caroline Hallett · Chloe Herring · Clare West · Craig Fisher · Daisy Smith · Dan Hamer · David Ainley · David Borrington · David Manley · David Steans · Devlin Shea · Eddy (Dreadnought) · Eliza O’Boyle · Ellen Angus · Emily Connor · Esther Patterson · Evie O’Connor · Fay Nicolson · Fiona Allen · Florence Mulvey · Gavin Munro · Geoff Litherland · Geoffrey Slater · Gunther Walker · Harry Martin · Ian Whitfield · Ivan Smith · Jack Lewdjaw · Jackie Berridge · Jason Briddon · Jane Walker · Jessie Farnsworth · Joan Ainley · Jo Heron · John Rimmer · Johnny & Amanda Wray · Jonny Davey · Jonny Paul Hill · JMF Casey · Jo Heron · Julia Vaughan · Jun Rui Lo · Kat Starczewski · Kate Learmouth · Katja Hock · Katy and Finn McCabe · Kerry Langsdale · Leomi Sadler · Leah Stewart · Lee Ambrose Smith · Lew Proffitt · Linda Hemmersbach · Louisa Chase · Lucy Nelson · Lucy Vardy · Marek Tobolewski · Marie Paurin · Mark Elmore · Michael Day · Michael Gaunt · Phil Smith · Philippa Brown · Peter Knight · Richard Hyde · Rob Slater · Rose Squires · Ruth Cox · Ruth Gordon · Ryan Leigh · Sandy Constable · Sarah Key · Sarah Poots · Shelley Webster · Shivani Khoshia · Simon Linington · SluiceBox · Sophie-Nicole Dodds · Stef Smith · Thomas Griffiths · Toby Curtis · Tracey Keeping · Tricia Rice · Victoria Willis · Vivien Heyes · Will Slater
#PerennialExhibition #HaarlemArtspace
Thank you to everyone who joined us for an unforgettable opening night of Perennial, the first in a new series of annual exhibitions at Haarlem Artspace, celebrating the breadth and vitality of artistic practice rooted in and connected to Wirksworth and the wider region.
Bringing together artists living and working locally with others from across the UK who are seeking to form creative links with this unique rural setting, Perennial reflects Haarlem Artspace’s commitment to nurturing a thriving and supportive community of contemporary practitioners and marks not only the beginning of an ongoing exhibition tradition, but also the kind of sustainable, long-term thinking that underpins our approach to programming, collaboration, and meaningful support for artists — through space, opportunity, and community.
Perennial 20 June – 13 July Fridays to Sundays, 12–5pm or by appointment Haarlem Artspace The Red Lion Market Place Wirksworth DE4 4ET
#perennial @willslater53
NECROLOGY: Becoming Soil with Rosalie Bak 2025. Workshop: paper/fabric, bokashi ink, audio recording
@rosaliebak@haarlemartspace
In Becoming Soil, which accompanied the exhibition NECROLOGY, participants were led through a series of somatic exercises unfolding in three parts: ‘Noticing, ‘Being with/in’, and ‘Fermenting’. Drawing on principles from the field of Haptonomy (the practice and study of human relationality and the phenomena of touch) participants were invited to make way for a more sensorial encounter with body, soil and death-care. Together, they moved trough the exhibition space and grounds of St Mary’s Cemetery connecting with our temporal, fleshly and microbial matters. Participants were guided by an audio-recording and site specific mediation and, at the close of the workshop, gathered collectively to produce a responsive work using ink made from the ferments of decomposing organic matter.
Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloe Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
Photography: Victoria Sharples
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
Charlotte Dawson: Just Passing, 2022.
Cotton, pine.
Chloë Louise Lawrence: Holding onto all
Four Floors of Biddulph House, 2024.
Birch-ply,
Fred Hubble: Earth Urn Ash Urn Ash,
2022–ongoing. Bisque fired earthenware.
Part of Necrology Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloë Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
Thank you to @emmacroman for the photography.
Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth
DE4 4ET
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
Victoria Sharples: Heap, 2025.
Stoneware toasted ceramic tiles, tin
oxide, aluminium castor wheels, cement-
based grout, plywood, softwood timber.
Reuben Brown: Untitled 1, 2025 (as part
of White Knuckle Forever Series). 0.3mm
pen on paper.
Rebecca Howard: Luminous Fragments,
2024–ongoing. Digital print.
Jack Brown: Green space/Land lark
floral foams, 2022-25. Floral foam,
furniture varnish, metal subframe,
fixings.
Part of Necrology Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloë Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
Thank you to @emmacroman for the photography.
Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth
DE4 4ET
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
Necrology, curated by Victoria Sharples, continues until 5pm today at Haarlem Artspace.
Sam Hutchinson: Mobile
Cadaver Storage Suit (PANTONE® Reflex
Blue), 2025. Printed polyester,
aluminium-bolted frame.
Lily Lavorato: ‘nothing compared to the
burning of your insides’, 2024. Cardboard,
chicken wire, modroc, ground charcoal,
pva glue.
Rebecca Elves: Moored Together, Until
the Final Flood, 2024. Glazed stoneware
with Swale dust and local stones.
Part of Necrology Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloë Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
Thank you to @emmacroman for the photography.
Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth
DE4 4ET
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
Thank you to everyone who made it to the opening of Necrology last night. The show runs until 5pm on Sunday, we hope to see you there.
Emma Bolland: retrieval drawing #7,
2012. Ink and coloured pencil on paper
stolen from a psychiatric hospital.
Claye Bowler: Over My Dead Body,
2025. Portland stone.
Bridget Robinson: Trace, 2021. Digital
print, river water.
Part of Necrology Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloë Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
Thank you to @emmacroman for the photography.
Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth
DE4 4ET
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
Opening Tonight at Haarlem Artspace
Necrology
Curated by Victoria Sharples
In partnership with NMRG & Playing Fields
Featuring the work of:
Emma Bolland @emma_bolland
Claye Bowler @clayebowler
Jack Brown @jackbrownwork
Reuben Brown @reubenbrownartist
Charlotte Dawson @charlottedawsonart
Rebecca Elves @rebeccaelves
Rebecca Howard @bexhoward_
Fred Hubble @fredhubble
Sam Hutchinson @realbadtime
Lily Lavorato @lilylavorato
Chloë Louise Lawrence @chloelouisse
Bridget Robinson @bridgetrobinson90
Victoria Sharples @victoriaemilysharples
A huge thank you to Victoria @victoriaemilysharples for bringing this amazing exhibition to Haarlem, we hope this will be the first in a number of collaborations.
*Necrology has a very short run at the gallery, closing on Sunday evening, so please get down to see it this week!
Thank you to @emmacroman for the photography.
Opening Night: June 12, 6-9
Exhibition Open: June 12-15
Open Thursday–Sunday 12:00–17:00
Workshop ‘Becoming Soil’ June 14, 2025
Haarlem Artspace Gallery
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth
DE4 4ET
Supported by the AHE Innovation Fund, University of Derby.
#haarlemartspace #nmrg #wirksworth #ecology #deathcare #funeral #necrology
Join us on Friday 20 June for the opening of Perennial, the first in a new series of annual exhibitions at Haarlem Artspace, celebrating the breadth and vitality of artistic practice rooted in and connected to Wirksworth and the wider region.
Bringing together artists living and working locally with others from across the UK who are seeking to form creative links with this unique rural setting, Perennial reflects Haarlem Artspace’s commitment to nurturing a thriving and supportive community of contemporary practitioners — both emerging and established.
The exhibition’s title evokes ideas of return, resilience, and slow growth — of cycles that repeat and renew. In this spirit, Perennial marks not only the beginning of an ongoing exhibition tradition, but also the kind of sustainable, long-term thinking that underpins our approach to programming, collaboration, and meaningful support for artists — through space, opportunity, and community.
We open Perennial with a celebration at the gallery on Friday 20 June. Grab a drink downstairs at The Feather Star and join us upstairs in the gallery for an evening of art, conversation, and celebration as we launch this new annual exhibition series.
PERENNIAL Haarlem Artspace Annual Exhibition 2025
20 June – 13 July Fridays to Sundays, 12–5pm Opening Party: Friday 20 June, 6–9pm
Haarlem Artspace
The Red Lion
Market Place
Wirksworth DE4 4ET
@haarlemartspace@kristiandaygallery@playingfieldsprojects
#PerennialExhibition #HaarlemArtspace #Wirksworth
