A Year Spent Grieving
Open Till 5th of April
Hypha Euston
The Temple has revealed its soft innards. A Year Spent Grieving asks its visitors how loss travels through the walls of the body, and how a sense of
home, cohesion, faith, and knowledge may find themselves strewn apart in the spaces occupied by the living, decaying, linguistic and corporeal body. Meaty, visceral, grating and uncertain, the exhibited work pulls together five Artist’s individual practices with collaborative writing and curation. An anxious, sincere and transitional microcosm is formed through sculpture, film, painting and sound installation, wherein the This Cruel Temple collective seeks to override Hypha Gallery with sensorially disruptive and commanding artworks. Space and form converge in a current of loss and creation, inviting audiences to stay with the work and partake in various workshops and Artist talks hosted throughout the exhibition’s opening.
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BOTH Gallery
323 Archway Rd, London N6 5AA
Hollie Palmer’s practice unravels the interplay between memory, home, and her emotional bond towards the Cornish landscape. The threads Palmer weaves evoke each place she has lived and those she has imagined. A ritualistic process, the rhythmic repetition of her craft allows her to drift off into landscapes and imaginary worlds where the comfort of nostalgia is disturbed by uncanny visions, childhood fears, and the unfamiliar.
The installation ‘Feeling at Home’ sets the scene for an eerie dinner with a creature that’s crept through the asparagus trees to fish within the pink copper marsh. Upon return, the dinner table is set with gammon, a freshly caught fish adorned with rhubarb, asparagus, and tomatoes. The creature feasts upon its latest catch, eating every last morsel and leaving only bones behind.
The installation pinpoints a memory of finding a perfectly preserved fish sunken into the moorland near Mên-an-Tol, Palmer has come to appreciate that ‘home’ is not only a physical dwelling but also the landscapes and places that evoke a deep sense of gravity and familiarity, as though a permanent thread links all poignant landscapes and houses shes lived within.
25-26th January
The Good Rice,
98 Robert St, London
With: Kristaps Ancāns & Marc Hulson / Kristers Krūms, Laura Aizporiete & Spāre Vītola / This Cruel Temple (Hannah Absalom, Em Doodles, Meej Douglas & Holie Palmer)
'METAHORROR' is an evolving constellation of artworks, events and exhibitions. Each element is interrelated, an accumulative exploration of metanarrative potentialities through experimentation with the conventions of genre fiction. By extending these approaches to contemporary art practice, the project aims at fostering new narrative modes in experimental moving image, performance and mixed media installation. The contributions in this edition play with relationships between the conventions of found' or discarded material in art practice and the found footage' genre of horror fiction.
Supported by Research at Central Saint Martins, UAL and by the Art Academy of Latvia. Part of Camp Fire at the Good Rice. (image: still from 'Cardboard Box' 2025 by This Cruel Temple)
But We Could Be Dining Anywhere
11/2024
02-09th November
Farsight Collective, Flitcroft St London
This Cruel Temple is an artist collective comprising Meej Douglas, Hannah Absalom, Doodles, Bodie Stanley and Hollie Palmer.
Uncanny Playgrounds
10/2024
11-26th October
Hypha Gallery, Stratford
Asparagus Trees & Feeling at Home, 2024
This Cruel Temple
06/2024
25-30th June
Central Saint Martins Postgraduate Show
London
Asparagus Trees & Feeling at Home, 2024
Photos by Rene Lazovy
17-19th May
Tate Modern, London
Book Fair, showcasing my research paper ‘How do Personal Experiences Place and Play form a Sense of Feeling at Home?’
A6 publication 84 pages on uncoated paper with a custom tufted gammon sleeve.
Photos by Adrian Deweerdt
For the Sick and Poor
03/2024
7-13th March
Gravesend, Fourth Portal
Artists: Harriet Hammond, Joshua Obichere, Georgia May Broadley, Meej Douglas, Bodie Stanley, Em Bristow, Sandra Zanetti & Hannah Absalom
Curated by Harriet Hammond with John McKiernan founder of Fourth Portal. Website Link including interviews:
https://www.fourthportal.com/event-documentation/csm-ma-fine-art-takeover
Crick Stone Seat, 50x40 cm plywood, wool, stuffing & ceramic.
30-31st January
Lethaby Gallery, Kings Cross
A6 publication 84 pages on uncoated paper with a custom tufted gammon sleeve and a ceramics.
24-26th November
Kings Cross Central Saint Martins, Not Just A Shop (online) & Coal Drops Yard.
A3 Print on South Bank Paper, 310gsm, Etching
Photos by Rene Lazovy
23rd-26th May
Brixton, Open Studio
Artists: Mariella Hall, Molly Beardall, Oreluwa Ahmeed, Grace Bolton, Ellie Ryan, Daisy Miller, Knonnets & Tapstar
Installation: Plywood 200x100cm, Ceramics 12x12cm, Tufted apples 14x12cm, 3D prints 15x10cm, Wool swing 20x10cm, Rope 1005x16cm, Tufted Mound 80x12cm
Tapestry: 80x90 cm
7 Dec 2022 - 08 Jan
The Bomb Factory, Covent Garden
A group exhibition exploring contemporary art utilising craft and domestic imagery called 'Material Girl' in the Covent Garden gallery on December 7th. Featuring artists Noa Weintraub, Paris Essex, Hollie Palmer and Fila Cutie.
The Exhchange, 230x120 cm, hessian & wool.
Morgans Gallery N6
09/2022
Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
Morgans Gallery show number 6, featuring The Exchange & Beetroot Soup
The Exhchange, 230x120 cm, hessian & wool Beetroot Soup, 50x50 cm, hessian & wool.
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens
05/2022
Tremenheere Sculpture Gardens Shop
Afternoon Slump 170x180 cm, hessian & wool
Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
Spill on the Butternuts, Dinner for Two & Kitchen Sink as a part of Morgans gallery show number 6.
Morgans Gallery, Falmouth, Cornwall
Fallen Fish of Men An Tol, Spill on the A30, Bedroom Corner & Household Clutter as a part of Morgans gallery show number 4.
The Poly, Falmouth
Video Confessions as a part of Falmouth Fine art group show Sordya.
Three House Exhibition - Show 2
01/2020
Three House Exhibition is a collaborative event curated in three houses across Falmouth town. The idea behind the exhibition was to showcase artists' work in domestic environments, open for the public to come and view. The exhibitions included poetry readings, performances, paintings, sculptures and video.
Charlotte Searle video piece shown in image
Three House Exhibition - Show 1
12/2019
05th December
Falmouth
Three House Exhibition is a collaborative event two other artists and I curated in three houses across Falmouth town. The idea behind the exhibition was to showcase artists' work in domestic environments, open for the public to come and view. The exhibitions included poetry readings, performances, paintings, sculptures and video.
