Unexpected Consequence: Screening and Artist Talk
Join us for an artist talk with Hermione Allsopp, followed by a screening
Join us on 20 November at 6pm to hear directly from sculptor Hermione Allsopp, who will lead an artist tour and discuss her practice, including new works created especially for this exhibition. Following the tour there will be a screening of the collaborative video work On the Edge, created with artist Claudia Kappenberg.
Allsopp’s artistic approach is rooted in critical reflection. Positioning herself against the universal narrative of boundless optimism and productivity, she consciously steps outside the cultural sphere that produces economically driven aesthetics. Working with found, non-artistic materials, she rejects traditional notions of beauty, instead questioning the role of the art object in culture and society. Her sculptures reinterpret everyday human experiences, transforming familiar domestic objects—once symbols of comfort and identity—into poignant reflections of memory and transformation.
In Allsopp’s work, these objects become vessels of emotional and temporal layering. Through them, she examines the fragility of the present and the stratification of reality, turning remnants of personal histories into artistic expressions of renewal—acts of creation born from the transition between life and death. As an artist, she simultaneously assumes the roles of both creator and custodian.
Following the tour, guests are invited to an exclusive video art screening in the screening room of, featuring works by Hermione Allsopp and Claudia Kappenberg. Claudia Kappenberg is a performance and media artist, writer and curator. In 2010 she co-founded the International Journal of Screendance and she is director of the Centre for Screendance. Originally a dancer, she continues to work through movement and with choreographic and cinematic approaches that engage the past and bring history into conversation with the present. Concerned with what makes us human, they seek to screendance time and history.