God Willing curated by Isabella Greenwood at Shipton, 2024

Lily Bloom, *Mud and Mire*, 2023, Plastic, Wax, Blood, 12 × 17 × 8.5 cm

Ariane Heloise Hughes, *Waiting Game*, 2024, Oil on linen, 25 × 25 cm

Chelsey Zi Wang, *⅙ Second*, 2024, Metal, Acrylic board, 29 × 49 × 2.5 cm

Chelsey Zi Wang, *Untitled*, 2024, Watercolour and colour pencil on maruishi paper on aluminium, 72 × 104 cm
Chelsey Zi Wang, *What Has Happened Cannot Be Vapourised*, 2024, Metal, silicone, 26 × 61 cm

Dyke Viagra, *Crucifixtion: gouniota*, 2024, Iron, natural leather, tattoo ink, 116.5 × 80.5 × 5 cm

M Lissoni, *Saint Paul, Patron of Missionaries, Evangelists and Theologians*, 2020, Aged copper, fragment of Pauline Epistles, hand-bound book, vacuum plastic bag, 20 × 30 cm

M Lissoni, *Saint Sebastian, Patron of Archers and Athletes*, 2020, Aged copper, ‘Rush’ poppers, hand-bound book, vacuum plastic bag, 20 × 30 cm

M Lissoni, *Saint John the Baptist, Patron of baptism and people dealing with storms*, 2020, Aged copper, lock of human hair, hand-bound book, vacuum plastic bag, 20 × 30 cm

M Lissoni, *Saint Apollonia, Patron of dentists and mouths*, 2020, Aged copper, dentist tool, hand-bound book, vacuum plastic bag, 20 × 30 cm

M Lissoni, *Saint Agatha, Patron of breast cancer and bell founders*, 2020, Aged copper, nipple tassel, hand-bound book, vacuum plastic bag, 20 × 30 cm

Ronnie Danaher, *(a) If you jump on a moving party tram, where do you land?*, 2024, *(b) Saint Wilgefortis (Redux)*, 2024

Ariane Heloise Hughes, *The Rot Consumes*, 2024, Oil on linen, 40 × 25 cm

Lily Bloom, *Gypsy Rose*, 2024, Aluminum, solder, 58.5 × 40 × 30 cm

Lily Bloom, *Stay With Me*, 2023, Plastic, Wax, Blood, 15 × 43 cm

DaddyBears, *Romance Bridge*, 2022, Poly satin, hollow fibre stuffing, poly cotton thread, 30 × 70 × 24 cm

Dyke Viagra, *Archaic 01*, 2024, Mild steel, natural leather, tattoo ink, plaster, Variable Dimensions

Dyke Viagra, *Altar: Butch*, 2024, Mild steel, 133 × 30.5 × 30.5 cm

Georgia Somerville, *Eternal Flames*, 2024, Ceramic, Greek Orthodox beeswax church candles, 25 × 17 cm

God Willing

Curated by Isabella Greenwood
2024

God Willing brings together a group of artists whose index move between devotion, ritual and the charged symbolism of religious imagery. Across sculpture, painting and installation, the exhibition explores how sacred language and iconography continue to circulate within contemporary material culture.

Rather than presenting faith as stable or resolved, the index reveal it as something fragmented and reassembled through objects: copper saints sealed in plastic, bodily relics, industrial metals and fragile handmade forms. Each piece approaches belief not as doctrine but as a shifting field of references — devotional, erotic, historical and personal.

Within this landscape, religious figures become mutable symbols. Saints, altars and offerings appear alongside contemporary materials and gestures, suggesting that ritual persists even when belief itself becomes uncertain.