TEMPO Exhibition presented new works by Megan Sharkey that explore our relationship with time.

Her work reflects on the elusive nature of time and how it shapes our thoughts and actions.

We fear it ‘slipping away’, we try to control it and fill it with productivity, we shape our days around an imaginary framework of minutes and hours… but a moment that lasts just a second can stay in our minds for years.

This exploration takes place through a slow, time-based hand stitch practice – one that is very physical, happening like a dance between body, line and space. The path of a single thread floats, weightlessly – but creates a solid form that travels and emerges through layers of white cotton. Fresh starts.

The exhibition showcases pieces made using a traditional needle lace/netting technique that the artist has adapted and developed. The works are created using a reductive palette, emphasising the interplay between light, shadow, and surface. Midnight blue punctuates the works – a visual metaphor for the vast, infinite qualities of time and the cosmos.

Visitors were invited to pause and notice the nature of the time they bring to the space, to feel it’s texture and to contemplate it’s unpredictability.