Michael Chuney: The Unpredictable Image: A Delicate Act of Letting Go

May 1 – June 29

In his latest exhibition, Michael Chuney explores the beauty of imperfection, transformation, and change through the delicate process of Polaroid emulsion transfers. By lifting and reimagining the fragile layers of instant film, he embraces the medium’s unpredictability—where no two images are ever the same.

This work reflects an ongoing dialogue between control and surrender, structure and fluidity. These square-format compositions, originally fixed and contained, are set free and reshaped by water, time, and the artist’s hand. The result is an intimate collection of images that feel fleeting and timeless—echoes of memory suspended in motion.

Through The Unpredictable Image: A Delicate Act of Letting Go, Chuney invites viewers to witness the beauty found in impermanence, to embrace the unexpected, and to see photography not as a static record but as a living, breathing process of change.

Suzanne Bonser: Cabinet of Curiosities

April 30 – July 29

After discovering that 18th century scientists and naturalists collected specimens of nature and displayed them as “Cabinets of Curiosities”, I was inspired to use my own collection of trilobites, shells, geodes, fossils, scarabs, and butterflies, as subject matter for still life paintings. Many of these objects are thousands of years old and are still teaching us about the formation of our planet through time.

A series of paintings can be curated as a collection, like the original “Cabinets” which were often entire rooms filled with specimens. Charles Darwin published his theories on natural selection and evolution in 1838, and his notes, drawings and Lists of Species, in his own hand, are available in online archives. As a historical reference, many of my artworks are painted on a background of his documents.

Just as every child will pick up a stone or shell and keep it in a shoebox, it is our human nature to want to collect and save the beautiful natural treasures that intrigue us.