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Exhibition

Kate MccGwire

Quiver

Sat 20 Sep 2025 – Sun 4 Jan 2026

Djanogly Gallery

Free

Opening times

Tuesday-Saturday, 10am-4pm
Sunday, 12noon-4pm
Closed Mondays

Launch event: Friday 19 September, 7-9pm

Kate MccGwire is an internationally renowned British artist who works with natural materials – most notably ethically sourced birds’ feathers – to create extraordinary and compelling sculptures.

Featured in our 2023 group show Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, the artist returns to Lakeside Arts in this major solo exhibition.

It reveals her full command of sculptural scale, from gigantic serpentine forms and cascades of feathers gushing out of the gallery walls to precious, meticulously crafted objects beneath antique glass domes. Ravishingly seductive, MccGwire’s works also evoke feelings of unease as they simultaneously explore the dark underbelly of beauty.

Top image: TURMOIL (detail), 2016 by Kate MccGwire © the artist. Private Collection.

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A green feathered sculpture is in glass box

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Artist Kate MccGwire inserts a feather into a piece of Artwork

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