— Sarah Praill

November 2025

Two prints selected for the curated hang

To fill a silence

We dig for the bones

Crypt Gallery, St Pancras Church, 2025

Underlying brings together a group of artists whose work concerns what lies beneath the surface, in material and psychological ways, and in finding new meanings and life by excavating and re-using the flotsam and jetsam, ephemera and relics of previous and contemporary times.

In mining for inspiration and ideas in the sedimentary layers of experience, history, mythology, archaeology, the River Thames silt, and the unconscious, these artists unearth and reinvent their own relics and artefacts, creating new mythologies and stories. They focus on the fragile persistence of objects in a digital age, and how they can hold complex meanings and stories that provide fertile ground for re-imagining new ideas, art and artefacts. The Crypt Gallery venue intensifies the themes of burial, unearthing, cycles of life, death, renewal, and new life rising from the ruins of the past, which each artist explores in their unique way.

Dancing at the edge of the world, 2025

“To find a new world, maybe you have to have lost one. Maybe you have to be lost. The dance of renewal, the dance that made world, was always danced here at the edge of things, on the brink, on the foggy coast.” Ursula le Guin