31 March to 12 April 2026

This exhibition brings together four artists whose practices are interwoven through family ties, long-standing friendship, and a deep, sustained commitment to creating art. At its heart are relationships in their many forms: a mother and her son, another mother and her daughter, and the enduring friendship between the two mothers, who worked closely together in the early 2000s and have continued to sustain their friendship across distance and time.

These personal connections ripple through the exhibition, shaping not only how the artists relate to one another, but how they approach making – through their chosen media, their working processes, and the subjects they return to again and again.

Daisy Muir

I’m a practising graphic designer with a background in Fine Art and Art History, and an MA in Graphic Design and Art Direction from Manchester School of Art. My work centres on language and the written word, exploring the relationships between typography, image and meaning.

I’m deeply inspired by the work of Anthony Burrill and The Real Hackney Dave, and I enjoy playing with words through juxtaposition, humour and repetition – sometimes questioning ideas, sometimes reinforcing them. I’m drawn to unconventional uses of language and the new meanings that emerge when phrases are displaced from their original context.

Ultimately, I want people to feel joy, question themselves, and engage with my work in a playful way.

Marie Muir

I have a BA in Graphic Communication from Leicester Polytechnic and spent over 30 years working as a teacher. After many years of supporting and nurturing the creativity of others, I am now focusing more fully on my own practice and developing my individual creative voice.

My current work explores print as a way of painting, often through collage. I’m interested in people and places, and in the interactions, memories and experiences that connect the two. I frequently work with found motifs, textures, colour and image, allowing these elements to come together intuitively.

Much of my work centres on my own personal connections and experiences of place, translating these into artwork that aims to evoke a sense or feeling, even for those who may never have been there. This can involve focusing on small, intimate details from a visit, or pulling back to present a broader view of the place itself

Rachel Porter

The open skies, dramatic light, and expansive spaces of Lincolnshire continually inspire my work. I use a range of media, though I primarily paint in oils. My creative process begins within the landscape itself, through walking and exploring. I work both directly in the landscape and in the studio, drawing inspiration from my own photographs and preliminary sketchbook studies. Together, these elements inform and support the development of each piece, allowing the work to evolve naturally in a free and expressive manner.

Benjamin Porter

My work centres on abstract concepts and the paradoxes embedded within human existence. Drawing from personal battles with mental illness, existential decay, and disillusionment, my pieces seek to visualise internal states of fragmentation, cognitive exhaustion, and psychological torment. My ideas are explored through mixed media, drawing, and painting, where imperfection is embraced not as a failure, but as structure, which gives form to thought. Through this process, I engage with the unexplainable and aim to reach beyond conventional human perception.