Opening reception: Wednesday, 8 July, 6pm

Water Dixon’s third solo exhibition at Everard Read, Composed of Nows, takes its title from a poem by Emily Dickinson and considers how we experience time beyond the usual markers of days, months and years. Working in patinated metal and glass, Dixon creates reflective surfaces that appear shaped by long natural processes, compressing the effects of age and transformation into a single object.

Mirrors become an important part of the exhibition, drawing the viewer into each work and making every encounter unique. Titles including The Cosmogram, The Standing Moment and Nacre reference forms that recur across both human history and the natural world, suggesting connections between individual experience and much longer cycles of change. Rather than presenting time as something linear, Composed of Nows invites viewers to consider the present moment as part of something continuous and expansive.