roots of renewal, until 19 June 2026

Coreset resident artist Leah Gasson explores garments as living systems that hold memory, trace experience, and evolve over time. Her work challenges ideals of perfection and disposability, instead valuing use, change, and cyclical lifespans. She proposes a mindful approach to clothing rooted in care, connection, and continual renewal of material and meaning.

In Repair Leah views garments as records of lived experience, where wear, damage, and mending form a visible timeline of the wearer’s life. Inspired by the marked workwear of the artist’s grandfather and father, it frames clothing as a personal archive shaped by labour, repetition, and memory. It values overlooked, worn garments as carriers of time, care, and endurance, revealing beauty within use and deterioration.

Through The Ephemeral Bride Leah reimagines bridal wear as biodegradable garments co-created with nature, designed to be buried after use and transform into plant life. Responding to the waste and single-use nature of traditional wedding dresses, it embeds seeds within the textile to enable growth and regeneration. She proposes a symbolic, evolving relationship between wearer and garment, marking not an end point, but the beginning of a new life cycle.