Of the Mind
Violet Mareck
6 – 31 August 2025
Private View: Thurs 7 Aug. 6 – 8pm. Email gallery to RSVP.
Q & A with the Artist: Sat 30 Aug 2.30pm. Just drop in.
An exhibition exploring the complexities of our minds through storytelling, imagery and a variety of mixed media.
The exhibition features a selection of work made over the last four years, focusing on Violet Mareck’s preoccupation with the mind and how memories and circumstance influence who we are. The work often reflects the impact of our uncertain and demanding world, and how we store memories that comfort or resurface at unexpected times. The immensity of memories are realised in obsessive drawings and facial expressions, of heads made of clay seemingly summoned from ancient times to comment on what we have become. This narrative runs through the exhibition with exhibits reflecting emotion, corruption, uncertainty.
“Words become important in describing memories’ the forgotten – fused – stitched into place – fixed – false – real – black – white – you – me – them. The translucent stitched hangings touch on the thing in the shadows, the uncomfortable passing memory that can be ignored until it touches you again, and the happy memories we cling to. Our memories become something else, they become ourselves.”
Violet Mareck
About the artist
Violet Mareck graduated from the University of East London with a BA Hons in Fine Art focussing on three dimensional and mixed media. In 2014, she moved to the Isle of Wight and set up her own studio space in Ryde. She has exhibited regularly on the Isle of Wight, including solo shows at the Quay Arts centre in Newport and the Monkton Gallery in Ryde. She has participated in exhibitions in Portsmouth and London. The exhibition at One Paved Court will be a solo show following on from a collaborative exhibition at the gallery in 2024. Violet’s work is held in private collections. She is a member of the Ryde Art Collective on the Isle of Wight and Kew Studios in London, commuting regularly between the Island and London.
