Rose Finn-Kelcey's solo exhibition is the first in the new gallery programme of Arts Collective, Northampton.
Curated by Emer Grant, the first presentation of the artist’s work in her hometown features photographic, installation and video works loaned from national collections and archives. The exhibition recontextualises Finn-Kelcey’s practice through architectural space and coded forms, considering how formal structures shape experience through architecture, language, ritual and atmosphere.
Exhibited publicly for the first time since its original installation, Bar Doors (1991) captures architectural thresholds, foregrounding moments of passage between spaces. The photographic documentation of Finn-Kelcey’s site-specific installation invites viewers to reconsider familiar architectural features as markers of access and permission.
The exhibition also explores Finn-Kelcey’s fascination with spirituality and its connections to the commercial and domestic structures of contemporary life, featuring works such as It Pays to Pray (1990), God Kennel – A Tabernacle (1992) and Jolly God (1997).
