Exhibition dates: 9–12 July 2026
Launch date: Thursday 9 July, 5–7pm – All welcome
“It is the beautiful, it is the strange. It's what remains, after the sea takes everything, and gives it back, rearranged.“ – Terence Wilde
Much of the work featured in this exhibition is based around ideas, art and ceramics made during Terence's art council funded DYCP project ,which he embarked on in August 2025.The original working theme of Clay, Scale and Spirituality has led him through the elements to the undertow of the sea, where he has begun to make art more from inside of an experience ,rather than about one . Terence wanted to work from a clearer psychological space by providing himself with a more private physical environment. The work recently created is from learning to use the language of self-acceptance where both joy and grief occupy the same space, and where the push and pull of chaos and order co-exist in a more expansive fluid state.
The underlying concept of the work is in bridging the organic(coral), the crafted (China) and the human (faces and form.) To create a layered metaphor for resilience through vulnerability and to explore the persistence of forms that adapt and hold together despite pressure. My poetic vision is to capture something half remembered from within the psyche, a dream or an outsider sculpture, embedded with history and haunting intimacy. A sculptural relic, dredged from the deep, encrusted with time, memory and discarded beauty, personal but alien, where gestures and impressions overlap and dissolve within a body that wears the marks of struggle. The pattern making and text used in my work simultaneously conceal and revealexperience, showing what has been removed and reclaimed, which parts of the soul have been mapped and pressed into form.
Through affording specific time to reflect, in working more with clay and using to a water archetype, Terence has gained new perspectives into his life as both an adult survivor and visual artist, with a newfound magical feeling of emotional release and unrestricted honesty. Working in the realm of “Undertow “, he is learning to reconsider the past without stepping away from it and return with the courage to show rawness, a plea for survival and embrace the struggle to form or hold onto a stable sense of self. Terence's work continues to embody shadow material and visualizes inner conflict and transformation but is becoming strongly anchored in the paradox of a shifting identity alongside an acceptance of impermanence. Undertow, a sensation of being pulled under the surface, last attempt at containment against surrounding chaos. Seductive and dangerous, mimicking the disorientation of being submerged.
Talk: There will be an informal free talk with artist Terence Wilde in the space on Saturday morning from 11:30-12. He will also be present each day the show is open.
Opening Hours: Thursday–Sunday, 12–4:30pm. Appointments can be made at other times, please email: info@jenniferlaurengallery.com
Access: This venue is wheelchair accessible
Free entrance