Judith Noble and Sarah King work with themes of memory, the mythic, enchantment, and the interplay between the human and the more-than-human. Their work emphasizes the importance of care, repair, and acts of remembering. It is a kind of conjuring that happens at the edges—the thin places where we can meet and dialogue with the more-than-human.
Judith’s work is rooted in an animist perspective, inspired by the myths and stories of her native Ynys Môn and guided by otherworld beings that inhabit the wild places there: the crow spirit Ianto Fran, the Llanwym Fisherwoman, and the Sea Witch. Their presences are stitched into the fabric of the work. Her works are acts of magic in which viewers are invited to participate: spells conjured from treasures gifted and scavenged from sea and land, and co-created with the elements, allowing tidal action, spirits of air and water, and the ever-present crows to shape the final pieces.
Sarah’s work explores loss, gathering, caring, and repairing. Materials collected from specific coastal sites are used to create assemblages that memorialize collective and personal histories. Rocks are dressed with fragments of fabric in profound acts of caring, while discarded textiles become metaphors for lost objects. Objects carrying traces of domestic life and mirrors evoke a different kind of seeing: a reflective, interior vision. She works with the traces held within materials, allowing their histories, associations, and memories to shape the work and open up encounters with more-than-human worlds.
Judith and Sarah articulate the fragility of existence, emphasizing the importance of care, repair, and acts of looking, telling, remembering, and conjuring. Their works collectively navigate a place between worlds—at the edge of both the deep imaginal and vulnerability—seeking to illuminate the profound relationships between time, memory, and the more-than-human world.
Everyone is welcome to join us for the opening celebration on Thursday 28th October, 6pm-8pm.
About Judith Noble
Judith Noble is Professor Emerita of Film and the Occult at Arts University Plymouth, an artist filmmaker, and a leading scholar of Surrealism, magic, and women’s art. Beginning her career under the name Judith Higginbottom, her groundbreaking 1980s film installations Water Into Wine and Sea Dreams launched a decades-long practice that spans moving image, textiles, performance, and writing on practical witchcraft under the pen name Levannah Morgan. Her extensive industry and research career includes twenty years as a film executive, major edited publications on artists like Ithell Colquhoun, and co-founding the online artists’ collective the Inner Space Exploration Unit. Her recent work directly engages animism and ecology, highlighted by the collaborative film Fire Spells (2022) and her 2026 solo exhibition The Earth’s Own Life / Bywyd y Ddaear ei hun in Ynys Môn.
About Sarah King
Sarah King is an artist, researcher, and Senior Lecturer and Course Leader for BA (Hons) Fine Art at Arts University Plymouth, where she co-convenes the Memory, Site & Artefact Research Group. Working across sculpture, assemblage, textiles, and site-responsive installation, her practice investigates themes of loss, repair, the uncanny, and the traces embedded within everyday materials and coastal landscapes. Her ongoing research projects, including Soft Practices and site-based studies in coastal environments, employ methods of gathering, listening, and ritualistic care to explore reciprocal relationships between human and more-than-human worlds. King’s work has been exhibited globally at venues such as MIRROR, Richmond Art Gallery in Canada, No Format Gallery, and the Royal West of England Academy, alongside her contributions to international conferences on memory, art history, and material culture.