Running from 12 July to 5 October 2025, this exhibition is a collaboration of artists who honour the materials with which they are surrounded. More than a celebration of texture as a surface quality, the exhibition embraces texture for elements of knowledge, understanding and remembering. It is inquisitive and explores an organic connection to the everyday, the dream state and the deeply felt, offering both fragility and resilience.
Artists express these qualities in felt, fibre, clay, paper, plant, paint and with slow processes of weaving, layering, imprinting, and stitching. In this artistic process, materials are not passive carriers of form, but active agents, speaking of time, place, decay, and transformation, revealing a quiet persistence in the process of making such as through the rhythm of a needle or the looping repetition of crocheting and weaving.
The works on exhibition at La Motte resonate with the rhythms and richness of the farm – the soils, thatch and vegetation, the crust of the bread or the char from the kitchen grill and, ultimately, the complexity of layering and blending that result in wine's so-called mouthfeel.
"When Surfaces Speak" explores a space where art is not merely viewed but felt. It is a reminder that perception is always relational, that surfaces carry stories, and that the world is most richly known through the intimacy of touch.
"When Surfaces Speak" invites us to pause, to rediscover the quiet intimacy of making and perceiving and to feel – literally and figuratively.