Saint Cloche is pleased to present Soft Return, our first group exhibition of 2026, curated by Kitty Clark and opening 11 February.

Positioned at the beginning of the year, Soft Return brings together contemporary practices that explore how histories, materials, and systems are carried forward rather than left behind. The exhibition examines return as an active process - where memory, cultural knowledge, ecological awareness, and technological residue shape contemporary ways of making and thinking.

Soft Return presents a dynamic mix of contemporary practices exploring memory, materiality, and cycles of return. Across painting, sculpture, and mixed media, the works investigate how the past informs the present, treating nostalgia not as retreat but as an active, generative force.

Some pieces capture fleeting moments in enduring forms, others transform found materials into immersive, sensory experiences, while painting and image-based works explore how memory, imagination, and identity are continually reworked.

Together, the exhibition invites engagement with how creative processes carry forward traces of history while opening space for reinterpretation and possibility.

Astrid Salomon, Britt Neech, Daniel O’Toole, Elliott Routledge, Fiona Barrett-Clark, Freja Innes-Ker, Greg Penn, Inga Dalrymple, Lochlan Sutherland, Leanne Xiu Williams, Lucy Anderson, Luke Crouch, Saxon Quinn, Thomas Thorby-Lister

February 11 - March 1, 2026

Saint Cloche Gallery
37 MacDonald St, Paddington NSW