Multiferals is a solo exhibition of protean and convention-defying abstract paintings by artist Sarah Ryder.
Ryder transforms catering-grade cooking foil into colourful painting surfaces that are alive with folds, creases, and sculptural form. Simultaneously delicate and bold, they hang and fold, twist and slump, shimmer and reveal themselves as we move around them, functioning somewhere between the more formal definitions of painting and sculpture.
Drawing on the textures of working-class life and informed by anarcha-feminist principles that celebrate collective autonomy, intersectionality, and fluid identity, Ryder employs the term feral – not to represent a descent into chaos, but as a mode of joyful defiance against systems that seek to domesticate us: capitalism, patriarchy, institutional expectation. Through her work, she aims to open up space for creative freedom, complexity, and entropic beauty.
At once playful and political, Multiferals offers a sense of soft resistance, valuing slowness, mess, adaptation, and embodied thinking.
The exhibition is accompanied by a new essay by independent writer & curator Jes Fernie and an affordable limited edition Giclée print by the artist.
| Ticket Type | Ticket Tariff |
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| Standard | Free |
Note: Prices are a guide only and may change on a daily basis.
| 08/01/2026 - 31/01/2026 (8 Jan 2026 - 31 Jan 2026) |
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