The Garden: chapter 2 is a solo exhibition by Harley Weir; an overview of Weir’s oeuvre from the early 2000s to today, in which we show both new and previously exhibited iconic works. In addition to her photographic work, her drawings and scrapbooks also have a prominent place within the exhibition.

Harley Weir is an image-maker that continually subverts the expected. Known for the intimacy of her images carefully composed with a highly attuned sense of colour, material and composition, she radically reshapes ideas of womanhood and how the female gaze might be engaged with and made new in our current era. Her work deploys analogue and digital techniques with experimentation in the darkroom and in post-production – combining a signature visual intensity and freedom with mysterious and unguarded subjects. The resulting images evoke a familiar world filled with emotion, but equally suggestive of a darker and more compulsive sense of our place within it. A world in which the body is turned inside out, in which images take on an unnamed agency and where the transformative effects of desire, anger, ecstasy and turmoil leave an indelible mark on our gaze. Through her work Weir has sought to heighten awareness around social issues including planned parenthood, sex work, plastic waste, the rights of refugees, marine conservation, and therapeutic support for young people.