Tales from the In-Between marks the emergence of a new collaborative practice between artist Zoe Porter and photographer Billie Wilson-Coffey, working in collaboration with acrobatic and circus performer Bridie Hooper. The project explores a surreal, reimagined approach to portraiture and the body within the landscape, blending photography with drawing, embroidery, and material intervention.
The exhibition presents works that occupy a liminal space between reality and imagination, where human figures entangle with natural environments to evoke myth, hybridity, and transformation. Through layered processes and performative collaboration, the artists create portraits that feel simultaneously intimate and otherworldly.
Essay writer Emma Gardner describes Porter’s work as a form of “quiet rebellion,” where mythic human forms, chromatic spaces, and moments of play invite viewers to unsettle what they think they know and enter a space of conscious surrender to the surreal.
Zoe Porter Gallery Walk Through | Saturday 7 February (2 – 4pm)
Opening Event: Saturday 31 January 5 – 7pm | Artist Talk: 4 – 5pm
Image: Zoe Porter and Billie Wilson-Coffey (photographer), Rhizomes (Sap) , 2025. Digital photographs on Rag Aquarelle, ink, embroidery thread, pencil, paint pen, watercolour, synthetic hair and fur, fabric, 84 x 124cm (unframed). Photo: Bridie Hooper (Performer/Model). Courtesy of the artist and Onespace.
