“The Throes” - Evidence of Living

“The Throes”
Bryony Shearmur, Naomi Charlotte, Nikki Webb, Tanya Cabeleira
The Marine Workshop Atrium: New Haven
April 28th - May 3rd 2026
An exhibition about moving through—holding uncertainty, and allowing change
“The Throes” is a group exhibition of work by four second-year Fine Art students
at Northbrook College. Bringing together installation, printmaking, works on
paper and conceptual practices, the exhibition unfolds as a shared yet distinctly
personal navigation of lived experience—where individual approaches intersect
through a concern with what it means to move through and evolve from life’s
challenges.
Taking its title from a state of active becoming, “The Throes” sits within
moments of intensity, rupture, and transition. The works resist resolution, instead
inhabiting processes of undoing and reformation—where memory, inheritance,
and experience are not fixed points, but materials in flux.
Across the exhibition, personal and collective histories are revisited and
reworked through autobiographical fragments, archival material, and symbolic
forms. Identity emerges here as something continually shaped and reshaped
over time, with attention given to what is carried, emotionally and physically
across generations—and how this can become a source of regeneration.
Material and process are central. Repetition, reconstruction, and collective
making operate as gestures of care—where fragility and strength coexist, and
vulnerability is given space to lead. Time becomes visible through the act of
making: in marks, in labour, and in the permission to remain unfinished.
While rooted in personal experience, the exhibition opens outward, creating
opportunity for reflection, recognition, and connection. Rather than presenting
fixed narratives, “The Throes” oﬀers a shared language of change.
Installed within the foyer—a space of movement and passage—the works are
encountered in fragments: glimpsed, revisited, and reassembled over time. This
setting reflects the exhibition’s own concerns.
“The Throes” brings together four practices at a point of formation, where
meaning is still shifting and being negotiated—forming not a singular statement,
but a constellation of approaches, held in motion.