Faces explores the human face as something deeply familiar, yet endlessly complex. Faces are often the first way we recognise one another, but they also carry layers of feeling, memory, and experience that are not always easy to name. This exhibition brings together artists from around the world who use the face as a way to reflect on how people show up in the world, and how much can be held in a single expression.

Each artwork in this exhibition offers a personal way of engaging with the face. Some artists focus on presence, capturing subtle expressions or quiet moments. Others choose to blur, distort, or partially hide features, suggesting the parts of ourselves that remain protected or unseen. Together, these works reflect how faces can shift between openness and distance, confidence and vulnerability, depending on context and experience.

Across painting, drawing, photography, collage, and digital media, the face becomes more than a visual subject. It turns into a place where emotion settles and history leaves its trace. In some works, the face feels intimate and close, shaped by personal memory. In others, it feels more distant, echoing shared experiences, social pressure, or collective emotion. These different approaches allow the exhibition to hold many voices without asking them to speak in the same way.

When viewed together, the artworks begin to form quiet connections. A gaze in one piece may linger longer because of the absence of one nearby. A softened face may feel more fragile next to something sharply defined. These relationships create a gentle rhythm across the exhibition, allowing meaning to emerge through contrast and closeness rather than explanation.

Faces centres on recognition and offers space to look with care and attention, and to consider how faces carry both what we choose to show and what we carry within.