Group Exhibition — HORS

Hors—an archaic resonance of a creature deeply woven into myth, labour, and memory—serves as the mooring for this group exhibition. Positioned at the dawn of the Fire Horse Year (commencing February 17, 2026), the show moves beyond mere zodiac prophecy. Instead, it treats the lunar cycle’s convergence of animal spirit and the Fire element as a metaphorical engine to explore the friction between ancient cultural emblems and liquid modernity.

Seven artists navigate this volatile temperament, delving into the dualities of the Fire Horse: the tension between inertia and breakthrough, the accumulation of power versus the heat of release, and the thin line separating innovation from the exhaustion of constant momentum.

Georgia Morgan’s baseless ceramics function as speculative artifacts that refuse containment. Influenced by her Tamil-Australian family’s oral history, Morgan creates “future artifacts”—objects that stand in to hold the stories and intent that physical archives could not. By turning belief into “stone”, she petrifies memory to ensure its endurance. Inscribed with the seven-headed flying horse Uchchaihshravas and phrases like “ENERGY CAN’T BE DESTROYED”, her imaginative iconology frames energy as a force that “can only change shape”. Lacking bases, these vessels echo the Fire Horse as an uncontainable, flowing spirit. Morgan’s practice situates power as a cultivated force, accessed through a deep, evolving connection to ancestral knowledge, the laws of nature, and spirituality.

Flin Sharp’s paintings trace human-equine bonds from the artist’s family horse, Sally, to mythic-literary figures, Sooty and Ocyrhoe. Here, the horse emerges as a “wit-bound” companion and witness—a living presence bridging intimate grief with imaginative metamorphosis. Whether through the shared hardship of an outcast in Farseer Trilogy (the loyal horse Sooty and his master FitzChivalry) or the fluid transformations found in Ovid, Sharp explores how stories and lineage shape our connection to the world. Within these worlds, the horse is a spiritual being that defines our capacity for empathy.

– essay by Casey Cheng