25/05/2026
Yesterday I popped in to see the last day of the exhibition by members of. THE KIN COLLECTIVE, Gentle Shift’, It was staged at The Art Pad, a lovely space part of the Fringe Art Bath Festival. What a treat to chat with three of the artists pictured here:
GRACE DUNCAN
Grace’s practice explores emotion, lived experience and memory through abstraction, focusing on internal dialogue, psychological
tension and personal narrative. She is interested in how works can hold this intensity without offering fixed meaning or resolution. Her process is material led, and heavily informed by process. The layered surfaces of her work reflect an interest in time, memory, and the persistence of experience.
VALENTINA DORRONSORO
Inspired by a fusion of the concepts of “mestizaje” and “saudade”, Dorronsoro creates an abstract representation of small details of her memories of Venezuelan landscapes with textures and shapes reflecting her culture. “Mestizaje” is a complex, beautiful, and at times contentious concept that lies at the very heart of the Venezuelan identity, referring to cultural and racial mixing. Although the Portuguese word “saudade” is often thought of as untranslatable, it is less of a mystery and more of a profound emotional ache, describing a deep state of nostalgia or melancholic longing for something or someone that one cares for and loves but is absent.
LILY SERENDIPITY
Lily Serendipity is a multidisciplinary artist working across painting, textiles, and sculpture. Through repetitive, labour-intensive processes, her work explores themes of control, vulnerability, loneliness, and warped self-perception. Her recent pixelated self-portrait paintings translate personal imagery into carefully constructed grids of colour, obscuring and fragmenting the body while drawing attention to the tension between visibility and concealment. Influenced by her background in cross stitch embroidery.
Always exciting to discover new talents and support artists in Bath.
