The exhibition is a spectacular journey that began with the artist’s mother passing away in 1966 and his father passing away in 2009, and continues to connect the Neolithic to the present, and Orkney to Japan. Her father was the widely acclaimed and posthumously influential writer J.G. Ballard.

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In Japan and Orkney, she explored Neolithic sites, Jomon settlements, and visited Mt. Osore, a remote active volcano where the mythical river Sanzu takes us to the afterlife. Using black sumi ink from Japan, In Japan and Orkney, she explored Neolithic sites, Jomon settlements, and visited Mt. Osore, a remote active volcano where the mythical river Sanzu takes us to the afterlife. Using black sumi ink from Japan, the drawings affirm the imagination’s ability to invent grieving rituals and other worlds after we die.
The exhibition is curated by Yuki Miyake.
Poet Tamar Yoseloff has collaborated by writing ‘The Ship’ in response to the drawings. It will be published alongside an essay by writer and curator Paul Carey-Kent in an accompanying book.

The Send-Off, 2024, 154 × 122cm,sumi ink, white ink, watercolour on paper
Are Stardust 2025, 96 × 67cm, sumi ink, white ink, watercolour, crayon on paper
Where Have They Gone?, 2025, 95 × 67cm, sumi ink, white ink on paper
Another World 1, 2025, 50cm, diameter circle gesso and ink on board
Untitled 50, 50 × 35cm, graphite on paper 2025

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