If you feel moved to share a dream and be part of the performance on the opening night of my exhibition Dream Bodies, please send your dream to — [email protected] — by the 13th of May.
The performance will be a live reading of my own dreams and of submitted dreams, accompanied by an improvised musical sound piece.
A small note: all dreams will be anonymous, but please only submit dreams you feel comfortable being shared and read aloud publicly. The readings are intended as a poetic exploration of the dream world, not an interpretive one.
Advert made by Emails Are My Friends Productions, a collaboration between Narna Hue, Flora Wallace and Others.
🔔 VENUE CHANGE 🔔
‘Dream Bodies’ will now be hosted at @cacao_house_stroud
‘Dream Bodies’ is a solo exhibition by Flora Wallace. Five years in the making, rooted in dream documentation, analysis, and automatic painting.
The work explores the body in dreams: fluid, porous, unbound. Where boundaries between the human and more-than-human world dissolve.
Opening event Thursday 21st May, 6-9pm
Continues
22nd - 25th May
Cacao House (1st floor), 2 Bedford Street, Stroud, GL5 1AY
Curated by Patricia Brien
Presented by Sacred Thing
Link in bio for more info
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Flora Wallace’s Raku Hands and Milligan’s Beaumont’s buttons
Available on Sacred Thing. Link in bio
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Hannah Lees: To form the timeless
In this piece, Hannah Lees adopts the egg as a symbol of fertility and life cycles to reflect on her own winding journey to parenthood. To create this work, Lees poured molten pewter into empty egg shells that she had collected from her own food preparation - their contents having nourished Lees and her family. The hot metal reacted with the eggs’ membranes, leaving each cast with its own unique and unexpected patina. This witch-like alchemical repurposing of foraged detritus is a common thread in Lees’ practice, whether using food scraps to make sculpture or to dye fabrics, or setting beachcombed objects and pigments into plaster tablets, her outcomes always feel as if bound by some magical substrate.
Hannah Lees (born 1983) lives and works in Margate and London, UK. Her work investigates cycles, constancy and mortality; the sense that things come to an end and the potential for new beginnings. This constancy, be it in religion, science, history or in organic matter, is visible in her practice through her attempts to make sense of and recognise traces of life. Traditional processes, materials and rituals are often reworked to explore how ideas and beliefs can live, die and be reborn across times and cultures.
Hannah Lees
To form the timeless
2020
Lead-free pewter
5 x 4.5 x 4.5 cm (approx)
Edition of 15 + 2 AP
Signed certificate
Handmade storage case
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David Horvitz’s postcard edition includes unique fungal spore prints collected from fields and forests in the South West of England alongside rubber-stamped text.
Available now on Sacred Thing
David Horvitz
The Wandering in Foggy Morning Mushroom Soup
2020
Rubber-stamp print and fungal spores on paper
148 x 105 mm
Edition of 50 + 3AP
published by Post Editions
@davidhorvitz
#davidhorvitz #posteditions #mycophile #sporeprint #mailart #postcardart #sporedispersal
The Forgotten Garden of Shadows by Emma Thistlethwaite & Matthew Robert Hughes
Exhibition open today and tomorrow, 11am - 5pm
Chapels of Rest, Stroud Cemetery, Bisley Road, GL5 1HJ
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If you haven’t already, go and visit The Forgotten Garden of Shadows at the Chapel of Rest, Stroud Cemetery!
It’s a beautiful meeting of ceramics, floral design and hauntingly mysterious world-building, conjured up by @thistlebynature and @matthewroberthughes and curated by @sacredthing - it was a joy to photograph!
On until 11th May 5pm!
Exhibition open today until 6pm
Free to visit, no ticket needed
Chapels of Rest
Stroud Cemetery
GL5 1HJ
The Forgotten Garden of Shadows is a collaborative exhibition by artist Matthew Robert Hughes and floral designer Emma Thistlethwaite. Together, they conjure a haunted garden filled with memory, myth, and mischief—where ceramic ghosts walk among living flowers, and time feels suspended.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a large-scale tabletop diorama: a handcrafted miniature garden built from clay, stone, wood, and found materials. Sculpted figures and architectural fragments—created by Matthew—whisper fragments of a hidden story, inviting visitors to look closely and piece together its mysteries. Scattered throughout the space, bespoke ceramic vessels hold wild and evocative floral displays by Emma, inspired by the real-life zones of a garden: from moonlit meadows and poison borders to walled plots, pergolas, and overgrown arches.
Emma’s floral designs bring seasonal life into the space, evoking the textures, scents, and moods of a real garden—one that might once have thrived, or might still exist just out of reach. Each display is in conversation with Matthew’s sculptural language, combining living matter with the stillness of clay.
This collaborative work blends folklore and queerness, Victorian gothic and camp, inviting audiences to slow down, notice details, and uncover the secrets of a garden that remembers what others have tried to forget.
Sacred Thing and Legion Projects are pleased to co-present The Forgotten Garden of Shadows, a collaborative exhibition by artist Matthew Robert Hughes and floral designer Emma Thistlethwaite.
“No one speaks of what really happened.
But the garden remembers.”
The Forgotten Garden of Shadows is a collaborative installation by artist Matthew Robert Hughes and floral designer Emma Thistlethwaite. Together, they conjure a haunted garden filled with memory, myth, and mischief—where ceramic ghosts walk among living flowers, and time feels suspended.
The centrepiece of the exhibition is a large-scale tabletop diorama: a handcrafted miniature garden built from clay, stone, wood, and found materials. Sculpted figures and architectural fragments—created by Matthew—whisper fragments of a hidden story, inviting visitors to look closely and piece together its mysteries. Scattered throughout the space, bespoke ceramic vessels hold wild and evocative floral displays by Emma, inspired by the real-life zones of a garden: from moonlit meadows and poison borders to walled plots, pergolas, and overgrown arches.
Emma’s floral designs bring seasonal life into the space, evoking the textures, scents, and moods of a real garden—one that might once have thrived, or might still exist just out of reach. Each display is in conversation with Matthew’s sculptural language, combining living matter with the stillness of clay.
This collaborative work blends folklore and queerness, Victorian gothic and camp, inviting audiences to slow down, notice details, and uncover the secrets of a garden that remembers what others have tried to forget.
The exhibition is free to attend and its opening weekend is included within the @neoancients festival programme.
The exhibition is kindly supported by @deyabrewery and @drinklivingthings
Join us for the private view Thursday 1st May, 6 - 9pm
Opening hours:
2nd, 3rd, 4th May: 10.30am - 6pm
10th, 11th May: 11am - 5pm
And by appointment
Address:
Chapels of Rest
Stroud Cemetery
Stroud
GL5 1HJ
what3words: dots.incur.wizards
The exhibition is free to attend and no ticket is required.
These glazed and raku-fired ceramic tokens were made by @tumpcollective and exhibited in their first exhibition ‘Bat, Moon, Womb’. In the exhibition these precious pieces were secreted in soil, waiting for intrepid visitors to excavate them.
A set of instructions (pictured) were issued upon entry to the show, guiding guests through the process of digging, anointing, naming and returning the tokens to the soil (or buying one as a keepsake).
Available now in the Sacred Thing web shoppe, have one posted to you or collect from Stroud.
