Preview Saturday 17th October 2-4pm, all welcome

Sharon Peoples and Nellie Peoples share a long history of making alongside one another. Their creative relationship began through observation and experiential learning: a daughter watching, re-enacting and responding, following her mother's hands as she transformed ideas into objects. In this shared space, creativity became an everyday language—one that cultivated curiosity, encouraged experimentation, and made room for quiet attention. There was comfort in simply sitting together, each absorbed in the act of making. 

As the years passed, that quiet creative space evolved. Side-by-side making became an ongoing dialogue, sustained across changing lives and, eventually, across great geographical distances. They shared works in progress, exchanged books and resources, recommended artists and ideas, and celebrated each other's discoveries. Although no longer always working in the same room, their practices continued in conversation, shaped by mutual influence and a shared way of paying attention to the world. 

Birdwatching often assumes a single direction of attention. Humans count the birds, recording who arrived that day, listening for calls, searching for flashes of colour or the beat of wings. Yet, in the same moment that we watch them, the birds are also watching us. They witness the figures gathered below in bright windbreakers and colourful hats, lifting binoculars and cameras towards the sky. The observer is never entirely separate from the observed. Looking becomes reciprocal.