Rachel Coad. Time

New work by Rachel Coad explores time through memory and legacy. Drawing on fragments of family history – photographs, stories and archival traces – the exhibition reflects on how little can be fully known of those who came before us. Each work considers the gap between personal memory and recorded history, suggesting that we exist as only a small part within a larger, ongoing lineage. Rather than seeking to reconstruct a complete narrative, the works embrace uncertainty and absence as essential components of remembrance. Moments, figures and places emerge through partial recollections and inherited accounts, revealing the ways in which family histories are continually shaped by interpretation, omission and imagination. In this sense, memory becomes less a fixed record than a living process through which the past is revisited and reconfigured. Through a practice attentive to both intimate experience and broader questions of continuity, Coad reflects on the traces that connect generations across time. The exhibition invites viewers to consider how identities are formed through stories passed down, forgotten or transformed, and how personal histories remain intertwined with larger networks of ancestry, inheritance and collective memory.