News from our studio artists:
exhibitions, talks and workshops​​
October & November 2025
​​EXHIBITION: Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay
Thu 4 Sep – Sat 18 Oct 2025
At The Broadway Gallery, Letchworth
Studio artist Idit Elia Nathan will be showing work alongside Cambridge-based artists Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée and Olga Jürgenson at an exhibition titled Leaving Were The Ones Who Could Not Stay which explores powerful stories of migration, memory, and belonging. Drawing from their personal and family histories, interviews, and archival material, the exhibition offers moving reflections on how people carry, share, and reimagine the experience of displacement across generations. The works span sound, video, installation, photography, and embroidery, each one opening a space to consider the impact of borders on lives, families, and futures.
Fellow studio artist Sarah Wood has contributed a poetic essay / collage that is offered as a momento to visitors so don't miss out on your chance to get a copy.
The project is supported throughout by Counterpoints’ biennial festival Platforma’25, focused on migration in the East. Additional events with Uncovering Letchworth, METAL Peterborough and Revoluton Arts, Luton, will use the exhibition themes to stimulate conversation and connect (migrant) artists in the region.
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Additional events include a workshop exploring memory, identity, and home through personal photographs and objects from the Garden City Collection, led by the artists, will take place at Broadway Gallery on Saturday 4 October 2025, from 11:00 to 12:30.
An artist-led 'walk and talk' tour of the exhibition will take place on Saturday 11 October 2025, 12.00-13.30 offering a chance to hear directly from the artists about their work and ideas.
Visit the gallery website for further information and a list of associated events https://www.broadway-gallery.com/whats-on/leaving-were-the-ones-who-could-not-stay/
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​​EXHIBITION & WORKSHOP: You Never Asked My Name
Sat 4 – Wed 8 October 10am to 6pm
Preview Saturday 4 October 5pm to 7pm
Interactive workshop Wednesday 8 October 1pm to 4pm
Artworks artist Jill Eastland, Tom Green (Counterpoints Arts) and Migrant
Worker (Unison).
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The dark blue tabards that cleaners, carers and other low paid and precarious
workers are habitually made to wear, are transformed with embroidery and
sound recordings, recounting the experiences of migrant workers, refugees
and asylum seekers. Workers wearing these tabards are frequently
marginalised and discriminated against on the basis of gender, sexuality, skin
colour, religion and disabilities etc. The uniform contradictorily marks people
as different and thus makes them a target for less favourable treatment, but at
the same time it renders them invisible.
“They treat (us) like modern-day slaves” (Unison Migrant Care Report 2024)
Jill invites you to wear the dark blue tabards and will discuss how she has
used them as a kind of canvas, drawing and stitching words and images about
workers rights and migration onto them, investigating the everyday experience
of wearing them and using them as a tool for solidarity.
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​​EXHIBIT & TALK: British Ceramics Beinnial
Artworks Artist Clio Lloyd-Jacob is exhibiting at the British Ceramics Biennial with Noor Ali Chagani
Existing to be Removed is a collection of fragmented brick buildings precariously stacked on narrow stilts. These structures become placeholders for both a permanent place to call home and remembered spaces that no longer exist.
6th September to 18th October, Stoke on Trent, find out more here
Artist Talk – Noor Ali Chagani & Clio Lloyd-Jacob find out more here
18 Oct 2025 11:30am–12:15pm / Spode Works
Venue details
Spode Works, Church Street
Stoke-on-Trent
ST4 1BU
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Photo by Jill Eastland
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​​EXHIBITION & PERFORMANCES: Family Matters: Holding You Up
16th October to 17th December
Opening and Performances 16 October 6.30 - 8.30pm
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Family Matters: Holding You Up celebrates the powerful energies at play in the growth of parents, children, and their extended worlds.
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18 artists’ photographs, paintings, performances, films, sculptures, toys and drawings offer us imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family. Works address childhood experiences, parental strain and persistence, the impacts of social position and migration, how skills and challenges are transmitted across generations, and experiences of family for those who do not have children themselves.
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The exhibition includes work by Artworks studio artist Clio Lloyd-Jacob.
At the Alison Richards Building, 7 West Rd Cambridge CB3 9DP
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​​EXHIBITION: BACK TO WHERE WE CAME FROM
Emanuela Cusin & Sarah Wood
15–19 October 11-5pm
St Peter’s Church, Castle St, Cambridge CB3
Back to Where We Came From is an installation made in response to St Peter’s, Cambridge – an ancient church whose history is rooted in the idea of sanctuary. The church was not only a site of welcome for travellers arriving in the north of the city but was also, until the early 17th century, a site in which a fugitive could temporarily rest, immune from arrest, a space apart from the legal process of the state.
Now in a time of closing borders, when the idea about who belongs and who doesn’t is at the forefront of the world’s right-wing ideological preoccupation Back To Where We Came From will inhabit this historical space to ask how sanctuary today can operate to provide containment and enable reparation in the wider world.
Part of Counterpoint’s Platforma festival - see the website for more details.​​
FILM: PROSPECT
Sarah Wood's new film Prospect is currently installed at Folkestone Triennial (until October 19th).
Prospect is a new film installation made from never-before-seen footage of artist and activist Derek Jarman’s Prospect Cottage and the surrounding landscape. Filmed in the late1980s, these rushes capture the quiet beauty of the Kent coast and the rhythm of Jarman’s daily life.
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Jarman’s life was shaped by protest, creativity and compassion. He stood up for others in difficult political times. As we face similar challenges today, Prospect looks to his legacy for ways to resist, heal and hope.
Part archive, part poetic essay, Prospect offers a moving tribute to Jarman’s vision – grounded in love, openness and the power of community. It invites us to carry his spirit forward and imagine a future shaped by care.
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