To celebrate receiving a Freelands Award 2026 from Freelands Foundation for our 2025 Artists Development Lab this exhibition features work by Signal Associate artists and Artist Development Lab mentors; Jack Brown, Felicity Hammond & Mishka Henner. The exhibition, Plain Sight, explores our relationships with the environments we inhabit. Moving from local perspectives to global realities, the works question how environments impact our daily lives and confront the forces that remain outside of our control. Plain Sight has been curated in line with the themes of landscape and protest which the mentors will explore over the new 2026 Artist Development LAB starting this autumn. Featured work includes:

Jack Brown’s Fake Nails and Driftwood amalgamate the organic and artificial. The wood collected from the pebbled beaches of South Walney, bejewelled with synthetic, luminous nails in a treatment seen daily in the salons of Barrow town centre.

Mishka Henner’s Landfall presents fifteen 12” picture discs depicting satellite photographs of retired hurricanes with audio recordings of eyewitnesses, storm chasers, forecasters, and the hurricanes themselves. The effect of the spinning records is to collapse the distance between the lofty, weightless gaze of the satellite and the tense, endangered predicament of eyewitnesses on the ground.

Felicity Hammond’s Restore to Factory Settings refers to this paradoxical reading of blue, where the urban landscape has been dismembered, whilst at the same time has gone through a process of careful reconstruction. It explores the interplay between the past and the present to imagine future potentialities, exploring dystopian visions through engaging in the complexity of restoration, longing, and homesickness.