Wake This Land
Featuring:
Max Bainbridge,
Abigail Booth,
Helen Carnac,
Ken Eastman,
David Gates &
Nicola Tassie
Curated by Jacqueline Moore
5th September - 18th October 2026
Wake this Land engages directly with our complex and shifting relationship to place through material, inviting an imaginative and tactile response. Through their divergent perspectives and disciplines, from clay to wood, metal and textiles, the artists’ experimental investigations explore new and evolving notions of the land that surrounds us. Possessing a unique visual language, the works on view reflect the entanglement of nature and the human, with both traces and echoes of land use and lives lived. The exhibition presents narratives of journeys and encounters, rural environments and seasonal change exploring both our collective experience of the natural world, human presence and the artists’ intimate reflections on identity, refuge and belonging. Through the confluence of intention and meaning, we witness the human spirit and material reach out their hands to each other, shaping our perceptions via a distinct set of processes and resonances to place.
Max Bainbridge, Softer Than Stone, 2024
Abigail Booth, Spell Bound, 2025
Helen Carnac, Thinking About the Weather, 2022 (wall piece)
Ken Eastman, Don't get around much anymore, 2023
David Gates, series of works, 2007-2011
Nicola Tassie, Stile (with base stone), 2021.
About Jacqueline Moore
Jacqueline Moore worked for several years as a professional photographer, in the field of portrait and dance before establishing her own London-based photographer’s agency, Black Dog Represents. She represented photographers across design, advertising and editorial, directing and producing global campaigns and curating photography exhibitions. She was also ambassador and patron for the Photographers Gallery, London, supporting the gallery’s move from Covent Garden to Ramillies Street and fostering links with clients and related industries. She extended her representation to craft artists, with a material focus on ceramic and wood, showing work through her Moore Gallery pop ups. She was keen to promote and support the work of artist-makers in London and Somerset, having been a passionate collector of the crafted object and contemporary craft for many years, with a special interest in British studio ceramics and the evolution of material investigation in the applied arts. In 2018, she was approached by Hauser & Wirth Somerset to establish a crafted arts gallery in Bruton, Somerset, an extension of the main Hauser & Wirth Somerset site. With a responsibility for the gallery’s vision and strategy, she developed an exhibition program for Somerset and took the format to London, Southampton, NY, Los Angeles and Zurich. Across a 7-year period, she worked with over 80 craftspeople and curated over 45 shows worldwide, changing the landscape for craft exhibition and appreciation. Her unique approach championed a breadth of material discipline with works reflecting both a conceptual and functional narrative. Jacqueline continues to originate material-focussed exhibition content as an independent curator whilst running a crafted arts collection advisory service.