Mani Kambo is a multidisciplinary artist working across textile, print and moving image. Her practice explores the inner spirit through a visual language shaped by personal, totemic symbols, informed by an upbringing steeped in superstition. Drawing from both everyday routines and mythological narratives, Kambo distils objects and rituals into evocative forms that invite reflection and interpretation.

In this exhibition, the interplay of black and white operates as a framework for duality: light and dark, creation and destruction, presence and absence. Sacred symbols act as guides, tracing connections across these shifting thresholds.

The works originate through tactile, process-driven methods, many initiated in situ at Durham Sixth Form Centre. The pressing of clay, the threading of a needle, and the controlled burn of laser-cut wood, positions the material as a site of meaning. As fire has historically served as a tool for divination, here materials similarly carry resonance, offering subtle signs to be read.

Kambo’s rhythmic processes of knotting, bending, threading and cutting become meditative acts. Each gesture is deliberate, embedding intention into the work. Across ceramics, textiles and wood, transformation unfolds as a form of alchemy, forging connections between maker, material and viewer, where creation itself becomes a quiet, spiritual practice.