Between Dialogues
Naomi Fahy, Blanka Olejniczak, Carl Truscott, Niki Widynska
Preview: Wednesday 4 February 5-8pm
Thursday 5 – Saturday 7 February 2026
Carl Truscott, Pitter Patter (detail), 2025, tempered glass on wood, 61x366cm
‘Between Dialogues’ is an exhibition that aims to demonstrate how eclectic art voices can speak to each other through common cultural, theoretical and practical references. Presented as part of The Northern Arts Gala, the four artists are currently studying together at The Northern School of Art, Hartlepool, for their MA Arts Practice. They represent a small, tight-knit collective whose work environment lends itself well to the ongoing conversations that permeate through artistic processes. Though each has their own unique style, spanning different mediums, their interests, research and thought processes often naturally link-up, creating lines of significance between them.
Naomi Fahy, Untitled, 2025, acrylic on canvas installation, dimensions variable
Naomi Fahy, Untitled (detail), 2025, acrylic on canvas installation, dimensions variable
Naomi Fahy’s work focuses on her continuous navigation of neuro-divergency as she attempts to understand more about herself and her art. Using a multi-media approach, she creates quasi-installations where space and texture interact with traditional painting techniques to depict expressions of a neuro-atypical mind. This therapeutic approach allows her to explore the necessity of balancing the positives and negatives of her experiences and create a work that is indicative of her constant battle for equilibrium.
Blanka Olejniczak, Untitled, 2025, acrylic and filler on wood, dimensions variable
Blanka Olejniczak, Untitled (detail), 2025, acrylic and filler on wood, dimensions variable
Blanka Olejniczak’s attempts to blur the boundaries between painting and sculpture. By expanding her abstract painting practice into three-dimensional space, she creates a greater freedom to explore the subtle aspects of her own experiences. Using art as therapy, she attempts to come to terms with her own grief by interrogating our cultural traditions surrounding death. Opting to focus on the peaceful and serene, death becomes an analogy to her own practice, as a constant process of transition rather than an ending.
Carl Truscott, Pitter Patter, 2025, tempered glass on wood, 61x366cm
Carl Truscott uses a multi-disciplinary approach as a vehicle for broader philosophical explorations. His practice is centred around drawing, but he uses contemporary constructive elements to ask questions of the nature of artistic interpretation. His work is filtered through a philosophy that cynically aligns much of contemporary art with superstition and our human tendency to find patterns, and weave threads of meaning between unrelated things. This has led him to look at social media as a window into the minds of its users and explore how this thinking dictates our daily experiences.
Niki Widynska, Please, please, please, let me get what I want, 2025, oil on canvas, 183x122cm
Niki Widynska, Please, please, please (detail), let me get what I want, 2025, oil on canvas, 183x122cm
Niki Widynska is a figurative oil painter who explores expressions of her emotion through dynamic compositions. Her entangled subjects, inspired by Rubens, are implicative of feelings felt at pivotal moments in the artist’s life. As she enters a transitionary period, she lays out her doubts, fears and excitement in allowing herself to become vulnerable again, captured in a personally evolving style that mirrors this step into the unknown.
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