Roots Through Ruins by Oliver Benoit - from 9 July with official opening on 11 July 2026

Roots Through Ruins is an exhibition of artworks by a leading Grenadian artist, Oliver Benoit, that traces how memory lingers within brick, architecture, and archival fragments.

Grounded in Grenada’s colonial and revolutionary histories, the works draw connections between Grenada and Britain through intertwined narratives of trade, displacement, resistance, and survival. In these works, brick is both witness and archive, holding the imprints of labour, violence, endurance, and repair. Through processes of breaking apart and rebuilding, Benoit reveals what has been buried while questioning what endures.

Poised between ruin and renewal, Roots Through Ruins invites viewers to consider what can be reclaimed from the fractured remnants of history. Grenadian artist Oliver Benoit has been awarded Coreset's inaugural International Residency — this timely initiative brings Caribbean artistic practice into dialogue with UK and global contexts. Benoit is one of the most significant Caribbean artists working today. His practice operates through a richly layered visual language, bringing pigment, text and salvaged materials — crushed brick, hessian, newsprint — into dynamic tension. His abstract compositions function as sites of excavation and construction, engaging the entangled histories of slavery, colonialism, revolution and migration.