- Exhibition
“It’s All a Blur” — An Exhibition on Memory
- Wednesday 3 – Sunday 14 September 2025
- 10am - 4pm
- 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE
Memory rarely arrives with clarity. Instead, it drifts. It’s All a Blur is a collection of paintings that explores the many ways we experience memory: trying to grasp it, sensing it through the body, watching it fade, and witnessing it blend with imagination.
This exhibition invites viewers into a space where memories live, not as exact replicas of the past, but as layered impressions shaped by time, emotion, and desire. Through abstraction and distortion these works reflect the fragility of recollection.
It’s All a Blur lingers in the in-between: the space where memories converge, contradict, or disappear. The paintings consider what it means to forget, to remember imperfectly, and to live with the merging of histories that may not be entirely our own.
These artworks do not aim to preserve memory, they recreate the experience of memory itself: fleeting, unreliable, deeply human. In doing so, they suggest that perhaps the blur is not a flaw, but the truth of how we hold the past.
The pieces navigate the complex terrain of remembering, forgetting, and everything in between. Each piece in this exhibition examines memory not just as recollection, but as a lived, often fragmented experience.
The works are portals through which we access what was, and sometimes, what never truly was at all.
This exhibition reflects on the labour of trying to remember: the ache of near-recollection, the distortion of memory over time, and the merging of dreams, histories, and identities. In some works, the canvas is crowded with impressions and textures, a flood of sensory information. In others, figures and scenes dissolve, suggesting the erosion of memory or its quiet disappearance.
The act of remembering can itself be an art form.