'Invisible lines, fragmented time' group exhibition

Invisible lines fragmented time is this year’s cross estate exhibition at Inverness Creative Academy featuring work from four artists based at different Wasps locations across Scotland. The purpose of the cross estate exhibitions is to foster connections between artists across the network with curatorial support from the Arts Programme Manager to produce the project.

This exhibition brings together four artists whose practices converge around memory materiality and the hidden connections that shape our lives. Though working in different mediums (textiles printmaking painting sculpture and assemblage) each artist explores the fragile intersections of time place and human experience.

• Laura Derby translates resilience and storytelling into hand-tufted wool rugs fusing art and functionality through tactile sculptural surfaces that hold echoes of heritage and landscape.
• Christine creates prints in muted tones and monochrome layering stillness and shadow to shift the atmosphere of a space and invite quiet contemplation.
• Kayleigh Sarah McGuinness works in rope brass stone and steel embedding physical energy into sculptural gestures that trace ancestral memory and overlooked histories.
• Fiona Stewart draws on natural decay and discarded fragments in paintings and assemblages weaving theatre and narrative into evocations of forgotten environments.

Together their works form a dialogue of fragmented moments and invisible lines threads that bind past to present resilience to fragility and imagination to lived experience. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how memory material and making can connect us across time and space.