PORTAGE
By Abhainn Wheeler, Andrew Murphy, Gildas O Laoire, Mark Redden
PORTAGE brings together paintings, sculptural forms, ceramic vessels, and sculptural light to explore journeys shaped by wind, water, myth, and memory. The title refers to the act of carrying a boat across land to reach new waters — an enduring image of migration, resilience, and the search for new horizons. It echoes Werner Herzog's film Fitzcarraldo, where a steamship is hauled over a mountain in pursuit of an impossible dream. In PORTAGE, that same gesture becomes a metaphor for movement, for risk, and for the persistence required to cross from one world to another.