The Artists behind GOSSIP Collective Presents ‘Golden Repair’, Tolbooth Gallery
Tolbooth Gallery’s latest exhibition, ‘Golden Repair’, brings together 16 local and Scottish artists in the GOSSIP Collective’s annual group exhibition. Inspired by kintsugi – the Japanese art of repairing broken ceramics with gold – the exhibition explores themes of restoration, resilience, belonging, and community.
Across textiles, painting, film, sculpture, and printmaking, ‘Golden Repair’ invites you to reflect on how we rebuild after fracture – whether personal or collective. The works on display embrace imperfection, celebrate lived experience, and consider how healing can create something even more meaningful than what came before.
Amy Crawley-Wise
Amy Crawley-Wise’s mixed media practice explores rest, repair, and the body as a site of experience. Amy’s suspended thread painting weaves together illustration and tactile mindful process of stitching that feel both intimate and expansive.
Amy’s journey – from fine art studies to art psychotherapy – deeply informs her practice. Through layering, stitching, and mark-making, Amy reflects on fragmentation and reconnection. Amy’s work is both sculptural and narrative and aims to share the imaginative and experiential material that lives in their body.
Ann Shaw
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Ann Shaw’s contribution to ‘Golden Repair’ is a moving film celebrating the legacy of artist and educator David Harding. Set aboard the Waverley paddle steamer, the piece brings together artists and community members in a tribute to Harding’s belief in art as a social force.
With music woven throughout, including The Song of the Clyde, the work highlights how creativity can unite people across generations. For Ann, ‘Golden Repair’ is a tribute to the power of art to act as a golden repair for a damaged society.
Audrey McMenemy
Audrey McMenemy responds to the fractures of our world – division, conflict, and displacement – through richly textured, stitched works. Using layered materials and handmade media, she explores repair as an act of care and transformation.
Audrey’s practice embraces deconstruction and reconstruction, drawing on influences from punk culture to create work that is raw, expressive, and deeply human.
David Barbara
David Barbara’s sculptural work imagines fragile communities, small stilted houses perched precariously. Working with recycled materials, David builds layered narratives that question how we live and form communities in uncertain times.
Eloise Kerr
Eloise Kerr is an artist based in Stirling. Her meditative drawings capture the quiet discipline of mark-making. Her piece, Repair, reflects the ethos of kintsugi through subtle, intuitive lines that record movement, correction, and time.
Working intuitively, Eloise invites viewers to find their own meanings in the work, where even the smallest mark becomes part of a larger, evolving whole.
Hannah Uttley
Hannah Uttley’s is a multi-disciplinary artist based in Tillicoultry, Clackmannanshire. Hannahs’ film Leaf emerges from Wingspan, a participatory project supporting women and non-binary individuals with experiences of trauma. Combining movement, text, and film, the work highlights connection as a vital part of healing.
Hannah’s practice centres on empowerment and storytelling, creating safe spaces where voices can be heard and shared.
Ian Keane
Ian Keane’s mosaic landscapes are composed of pottery fragments collected during walks in the Ochils during COVID-19. Each piece carries history of industry, migration, and community change.
Through assembling these fragments, Ian reflects on personal and societal healing, reminding us that rebuilding is an ongoing process woven through time. Ian is an outsider artist hoping to combine elements of their exploration of the landscape with storytelling.
Jenna Glancy
Textile designer Jenna Glancy merges structural and organic forms through print and embroidery. Inspired by kintsugi, Jenna’s work explores repair through colour, layered textures, and sustainable materials.
Jenna’s practice blends urban influences with natural motifs, creating bold, expressive textiles that celebrate transformation.
Kyle Blain
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Kyle Blain’s paintings elevate everyday working-class life, capturing intimate moments of connection and memory. His depiction of a family birthday gathering reflects ‘Golden Repair’ through shared experience rather than visible mending.
For Kyle, repair happens in the small acts of togetherness, laughter, touch, and presence, where human connection becomes the “gold” that binds us.
Lee Avery
Lee Avery is a Stirling-based emerging visual artist. Lee’s atmospheric paintings examine labour, routine, and the emotional weight of daily life. Lee’s work focuses on transitional moments – leaving work, returning home – where quiet restoration occurs.
Through fragmented imagery and subtle use of gold light, Lee reveals how healing often happens in fleeting, almost unnoticed moments.
Lesley McDermott
Lesley McDermott’s work asks urgent questions about repair in a wider context: society, environment, and human relationships. Lesley’s practice considers whether true restoration is possible amid ongoing systems of harm and imbalance.
Libby Yule
Libby Yule’s monoprints explore memory as a shifting, layered process. Images fade, re-emerge, and transform – mirroring how we reconstruct the past.
Libby’s work suggests that repair may not restore what was, but instead create something new from what remains.
Lynne Knox
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Drawing from fragmented childhood memories shaped by aphantasia, Menstrie-born artist Lynne Knox uses textiles, charcoal, and gold elements to assemble a “Golden Thread” of recollection.
Lynne’s practice often intersects with music, creating immersive works that blend visual and auditory experiences of rebuilding and connection.
Michelle Briggs
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Michelle Briggs explores the tension between comfort and authenticity in a dystopian world. Michelle’s work questions whether a life free from pain is worth the loss of individuality and emotional depth.
Through this lens, repair becomes a complex negotiation rather than a simple resolution.
Rebekah Reynolds
@reynolds.portraiture www.ReynoldsPortraiture.com
Rebekah Reynolds focuses on intimacy and connection through delicate, layered drawings. Rebekah’s work captures quiet, shared moments between figures, where healing exists in proximity and mutual understanding.
Rather than dramatic transformation, Rebekah’s work highlights the subtle power of presence and empathy.
Tim Shaw
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Tim Shaw’s photographic work captures glimpses of life behind closed doors. Through illuminated windows and interconnected spaces, he reveals hidden emotional landscapes.
Golden lines threading through his imagery suggest unseen connections between individuals – moments of loneliness, love, and shared humanity.
Together, these artists form a powerful conversation around repair – not as perfection restored, but as transformation embraced. ‘Golden Repair’ invites us to reconsider our own fractures and to recognise the beauty in the process of becoming whole again.
