Michaela Pegum's work spans sculpture, wearable art and performance, with her history and practice in dance and somatics informing her material processes. Her work explores the fluid and liminal zones of felt experience, garnered through the deeply embodied relationships we form with the phenomenal world. Working in highly explorative ways to develop material languages that are nuanced and sensory, Michaela investigates the qualities, tones and temporalities that constitute the intimate fabric of relations between the sensing being and their environment, and the places of resonance between natural and cultural ecologies.
We experience the world in wordless ways before we language it, and it is in this pre-discursive realm where the transitional and plural interconnections between things retain their presence and vibrancy, before the experiences may be named in ways that attempt to transform and stabilise them, that I create my work.
/ Michaela Pegum
Aug 9 — Sep 20, 2025
Emma Davies, Noriko Nakamura, Michaela Pegum, Makiko Ryujin
In the Making presents the work of four makers that centre the act of making at the heart of their conceptual exploration in craft practice.
The exhibition speaks to the heart of what it means to be a maker. It highlights the reciprocal and responsive relationships between the practitioner, the application of craft-based skills and the creative expression that is articulated through materials.
