Secret Places

Secret Places - The Black-Art Gallery, Finsbury Park, London 

This site-specific installation draws upon both Cherry’s personal experience of disability and her professional practice as an art therapist. Using sand, stone, and muslin, she created an intimate, tactile space designed to explore and contain emotion through physical materials.

Working directly within the gallery, Cherry carved into and out of sand, drew with pebbles, and played with colour and texture to form a landscape which felt both ancient and deeply personal. The resulting work was influenced by Aboriginal Art and The Navaho Indian sand paintings, embodied the impermeable, transient, and ritualistic nature of image-making. 

The overall effect was that of an inner chamber: veiled, hidden in places, and resonant with the quiet energy of reflection and resilience.