There’s a Hole in the Bucket

There's a Hole in the Bucket looks at the importance of nature in wellbeing and how environmental issues impact our lives. In the face of increasing environmental destruction and an inability to affect any real change, four artists reflect on how they interact with nature and the cycle of bad news we find ourselves in. Reminiscent of the deadlock in the titular nursery rhyme, we look to others to resolve the problems where in reality the solution may lie in forging stronger connections and communities.

About the Artists

Yolande Wyer is a multi-media artist and printmaker based in Oxford, with previous experience in architectural practice. Her work is concerned with themes of 'refuge space' not just physically but in terms of social connectivity, environmental benefit and well being. The work in this exhibition considers allotments and the role of 'the shed', with thoughts on salvage and re-use.

Lin Dewsnap is a contemporary artist working with pencil, paint, sculpture and community projects. This current work is a series of installations using found objects such as tree trunks, branches, bones, teeth,chalk, feathers and clay. These artworks explore the act of silence and stillness in nature. Conveying a sense of belonging and connectiveness.

Firomy's work is rooted in fascination with dreams and the subconscious. She creates painitings that explore what lies beneath conscious thought. Inspired by surrealism, her practice reveals inners landscapes that connect personal introspection with collective experience. Her work invites viewers to consider how small acts of awareness ripple outward. For her, meaningful change begins within.

Photographer Etain O'Carroll explores the issue of water pollution in the Thames and the feeling of powerlessness to affect change when faced with the greed corporations, government inaction and the complexity of a problem that should never have happened.