Related yet created 26 years apart; the two works created by Ginny Sykes in this exhibition consist of a drawing created in 1995 and a corresponding sculpture in 2021. Both pieces are abstracted, totemic figures at different points in Ginny’s life in which she was approaching a personal threshold that heralded significant internal changes.

Ginny created the drawing as a still-young woman of 38 on the cusp of entering mid-life, and struggling to emerge fully. The figure’s high key energy expresses a feeling of sharp focus within an inner withdrawal of protection. The sculptural figure, created when Ginny was 64, is aligned with attending to the deeper inner work of age, opening to softness, acceptance, and letting go.