Julia Phetra Oborne’s latest series weaves together oil paintings that dwell in the quiet space between women and trees, memory and myth, landscape and identity. Epiphytes takes root in stories whispered through woodlands, where the female form slips through shadows and light, both seen and half-hidden. Drawing from her Thai-British heritage, Oborne treats the forest as a shifting terrain – familiar yet unknowable – a place where personal histories and ancient tales intertwine. The title nods to plants that grow on others, much like the layered canvases themselves, which accumulate marks that both reveal and conceal. Inspired by ritual and the Buddhist legend of the Nariphon – trees bearing fruit shaped like women – these works become more than images. They are living surfaces where past and present meet, unspooling their tangled stories with quiet intensity.
July 26-August 7. Free. Supple Gallery, 11am-6pm