Ties That Bind is a joint exhibition by MA students Emma Collins and Sharron Gibson. It brings together two distinct yet connected explorations of family life, belonging and the emotional charge of domestic space.

In LoveyouBye, Gibson reflects on motherhood through repeated acts of separation. Through photographs of her daughter leaving for school, alongside kept objects from childhood and images of blood, she explores maternal attachment, memory, and the emotional weight of everyday routines. The blood images return the work to the body, evoking birth, connection, and change.

In contrast Collins transforms the family home into a site of uncanny possibility in The Snail and the Mannequin. Through carefully constructed photographic scenes, ordinary rooms become unsettled and strange, exploring non-belonging, estrangement and the experience of seeing the world from an alternative perspective.

Together, the works ask us to look again at home, not as a fixed place of comfort but as a complex psychological and emotional landscape. Across both practices, family is understood as a space of intimacy and tension, connection and distance, where love, discomfort, and difference are closely intertwined.

Open 11.00 - 18.00 

Daily from Wednesday 27 to Saturday 30 May 2026

Free entry