Hot Source presents a speculative relationship between Outer Space and the sun, imagined as a flirtatious, reciprocal, and ongoing (if seasonal) crush. Through installation and text, Kirralee Robinson responds to the gallery’s materiality and architecture, proposing how this relationship might feel, unfold, and linger.
Robinson’s sculptural practice engages light, optics, and tactility, drawing influence from speculative science fiction, materials conservation, and ecofeminist philosophy. Working with metals, plastics, and processed timbers, her practice reckons with material waste as both symptom and archive of the climate emergency. Through gestures of care—cleaning, devotion, and poetic attention—these materials are honoured as sacred, traced back to the earth from which they came.
Imagining portals, pipes, and vortices as sites of psychological escape and renewal, Robinson treats light as both material and metaphor. Her site-responsive works suspend linear time, creating moments of playful engagement between physics and perception. Hot Source amplifies the subtle forces of the everyday, inviting viewers into a space of energised stillness and speculation on the unseen.
Opening Night
Friday 6 February 2026, 6.00–9.00pm
Free entry, all welcome
Exhibition Text
Amy Bowden
