Three artists, one gallery space, and several exhibits comprising a film, sound, two-dimensional and three-dimensional works — such as church pews, a bedroom dresser, and three Zoetropes — are on display in an exhibition titled Secret Geometries at Ebor Studio on William Street in Littleborough. The artworks are created by practitioners Laura Moxon-Groves, Jack-Victor Westerdale, and Stephen Cranston.
Laura Moxon-Groves and Her Zoetropes
Moxon-Groves’s Zoetropes consist of cylinders with small, regular vertical slits and, on the inside of each one, illustrations in black ink on paper across 360 degrees. The Zoetrope is regarded as the forerunner of film and animation, originally patented by William F. Lincoln in the United States in the 1860s.
One Zoetrope features beautifully wrought human figures; another depicts a made-up character, part chick, part human, influenced by artists such as Hieronymus Bosch, in a world of fantasy realised by a former University of Salford student now resident in Todmorden. As Moxon-Groves said: “I use metaphorical and figurative imagery to reconstruct reality.”
Jack-Victor Westerdale’s Animated Film
Jack-Victor Westerdale presents an animated film projected on a white wooden brick structure hung on a wall, titled Romancing the Stone, created in 2026.
Stephen Cranston’s Diverse Exhibits
Stephen Cranston has a range of exhibits. One, The Shepard Lord, Pentaptych, 2016, is a collage that borrows from the sixteenth-century Isenheim Altarpiece. There are five windows in the whole framed composition — four rectangular (three portrait, one landscape) and a semicircle. Each window has a different subject, some related, others not. A pair of hands, a tusked animal, and a frog-like creature with a human mouth are depicted with a colourful palette.
Other works include a Bedroom Dresser (a nod to Tracey Emin’s bed), church pews, two more framed collages, and sound pieces. Gallery attendees participated in a group spoken word recording of simple sentences that may form the basis of a sound piece similar to previous recordings Cranston has made. One sound piece, Evocation 2, required family and friends to recite three palindromic sentences assembled in a process Cranston also uses in his hand-cut collage work.
Exhibition Details
The exhibition closes on Saturday, June 20, 2026. For general enquiries, such as gallery opening times, email info@eborstudio.co.uk or telephone 01706 551001. Ebor Studio, William Street, Littleborough, OL15 8JP.
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