Moving between the intimate and the cosmic, Rebecca Ackroyd’s Floaters brings together new paintings, sculptures and images that draw from an expanding archive of personal memories and found imagery. Familiar forms drift into strange constellations, domestic spaces open into imagined worlds, childhood motifs meet military patterns, while bodies, planets and memories appear as fragments, reflections and doubles, expanding into something dreamlike, psychedelic, or vast.
Throughout Ackroyd’s practice, memory is less a fixed repository than a shifting material. It is something continually reconstructed through images, stories and experience. “When you change, your memory changes,” the artist has said, describing memory as necessarily fragmentary and transforming over time. In the exhibition this floating state takes physical form.