Portage | Group Exhibition at the Tøn Gallery

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PORTAGE brings together paintings, sculptural forms, ceramic vessels, and sculptural light to explore journeys shaped by wind, water and myth. Featuring artists Aibhainn Wheeler, Andrew Murphy, Gildas O Laoire and Mark Redden.
The title refers to the act of carrying a boat across land to reach new waters — an enduring image of migration, resilience, and the search for new horizons. It echoes Werner Herzog’s film ‘Fitzcarraldo’, where a steamship is hauled over a mountain in pursuit of an impossible dream. In PORTAGE, that same gesture becomes a metaphor for movement, risk, and for the persistence required to cross from one world to another.