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(BE)LONGING
Velorose
July
Monday - Saturday
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Today we continue our journey through (BE)LONGING (82 artworks by 73 artists)
These 3 artists each ask us to consider belonging through remembered experience and practice, quiet observation, and intimate and subtle mark-making
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Sarah Bird @sj8ird
You Have a New Memory (2026)
Chromogenic Print on Fuji Gloss Paper
42cm x 30cm Framed (1/5)
£309.75
22cm x 16cm Unframed (Edition of 5 + 2AP)
£236.25
(Artwork 1)
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London-based artist-educator Sarah Bird’s photographic work is an exploration of the sense of disembodiment brought about by the rapidly advancing world. Exhibited widely, her works have featured in Aesthetica’s ‘Future Now’ and Germany’s AIT magazine
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‘You Have a New Memory’ is a layered digital photograph, depicting being on the edge of something. The shallow spaces glow like digital screens that are part of our everyday lives, meanwhile referencing old interior painting devices for thresholds, such as the fireplace or the curtain. How might we belong in our future world?
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(BE)LONGING
Velorose
July
Monday - Saturday
12pm - 6pm
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Alzbeta Jaresova @bettyjaresova
Untitled (2024)
Graphite on Paper, Unique
42cm x 32cm Framed
£840
(Artwork 2)
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Alzbeta Jaresova (b.1987) has exhibited in solo and group exhibitions both in the UK and internationally. She has received several awards, including the Griffin Art Prize (2012) and the Dentons Art Prize (2017), and was granted support from the Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation in 2018
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Betty’s work examines how architecture and the built environment are continually appropriated to express political, social and cultural values, creating a tension between utopian and dystopian conditions. She explores the psychological impact of the spaces we inhabit; environments for which our bodies develop a longing and physical memory. The protagonists of her work hold no individual identity; defined only by posture and gesture, the sense of longing becomes universal. Never arriving or departing, the figures are instead held, suspended, embodying the quiet unresolved state of bein