Rachael Melvin

Pond(er) is an exhibition exploring the gallery as a site for shared & intimate experiences curated by Rachael Melvin. Through tactile and sonic interventions, this project examines how an arts space can encourage communal experience and discourse through rest, play and storytelling.

This installation responds to the noted distance and oftentimes loneliness felt following on from a period of restricted human contact, and instead works to highlight the importance of togetherness, play and collective memory through soft installation and sound.

Visitors were invited to touch, sit, lay down, play and ponder their thoughts as they interact with the gallery space and one another.

Pond(er) includes works by visual artist Alivia Goldhill and sonic artist Andy Leech (Le Boom), and has been developed and curated by Catalyst Arts co-director Rachael Melvin.

February 2024