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EXHIBITION RUN: 16th September - 28th October 2023.

"The Mother is calling us at this late hour. She is rising within us.” Monica Sjöö

The show title Light Years Ahead suggests an alternative yet possible future brought into the present where spirituality, peace and political change are united and directed by feminine qualities.

As guardians of this future calling in our divine vision, participating artists engage with women’s rights, social justice, and protecting the environment. Some are mothers, some are shamans , and all are light workers.

Light Years Ahead is inspired by the work of Monica Sjöö, (1938 -2005), a Swedish born British painter currently in retrospective at Moderna Museet in Stockholm on now until October. She was also a writer, an eco feminist and an early exponent of the Goddess movement, working when what she was saying was deeply unfashionable and provocative. She advocated freedom of oppression in all its forms and was a leading voice in the Women’s Liberation Movement in the UK in the 1960’s and 1970’s.

Artists are Monica Sjöö, Alice O’Malley, Delaine Le Bas, Vivienne Dick, Ptolemy Mann, Fiona Finnegan, Sandra Vasquez de la `Horra, Forouz Zarei, Jessica Mallock, Sarah Staton, Grace Ndiritu, Jennifer Binnie, Helen Melland and Alison McKenna.