Collectives Hub: Zinnia Collective

Zinnia Collective proposes a participatory exhibition exploring how the past continues to shape artistic practice, and how every action changes the way history is experienced by those who come after us.

Reflecting our commitment to collaboration, we will invite photographers at different stages of their careers, from emerging to established artists like Birthe Piontek, to each contribute a single photograph in response to our question: "Is there a photograph you have taken in the past that still informs your practice today?" Designed to work within any wall space, the images will be installed as layered stacks of photographs. visitors will be invited to carefully remove the top image from one stack, placing it into an archive on the gallery floor in front of the installed work and revealing the photograph beneath. With every interaction, the exhibition changes. Each visitor inherits a different exhibition from the person before them while simultaneously shaping the experience of the next.

The growing archive of removed images becomes a parallel history of the exhibition, reminding us that history is never fixed. It is continuously revealed, edited, remembered and rewritten through the choices we make, reflecting Zinnia Collective's belief that meaningful change begins through participation and shared experience.

Exhibiting artists:
Lucia Buricelli
Sally Barton
Adam Lin
Bella Galliano-Hale
James Clifford Kent
Lauren Joy Kennett
Liliana Zaharia
Lindsay Godin
Maite de Orbe
Marcel Top
Marcie Docherty
Myles Morgan Bailey
Sonia Boue 
James Arthur Allen
Laura Hart Newlon
Edward Brilliant 
Emily June Smith 
Tom Woodroffe
Terna Jogo
Simon Martin
Sabrina Tirvengadum 
Otto Monkhouse 
Oliver Raymond Barker
Michael Love
Max Patternden
Lucia Buricelli
Khim Mata Hipol 
Khatun
Kairo Urovi 
Jocelyn Allen 
Jesse Alexander
Jenny Lewis 
Jennifer Drabbe
Jake Kimble
Jake Husband
Jack Moyse
Goncalo Carvalho
Garry Loughlin 
Florian Spring 
Felix Falck-Naess 
Emma O’Brien 
Ellen Stewart
Dominic Whisson 
Chris Hoare
Birthe Piontek
Andreas Sterzing 
Amy D’Agorne 
Alice Campos 
Africa Barrero-Alexander 
Simon Martin