Ffion Colquhoun-O’Brien
( Garden )
Flank, 2026. 
Double-ridged cardboard, Chalk Paint, Air-Dry Clay. 

( Basement )
Botox, 2026.
Granite, Sealant, Memory Foam, Cardboard, Paper, Plywood, Glue.  

I’m a loser in love, so baby, 2026.
Steel Cigarette Bin, MDF, Stoneware tiles, paper, grout. 

( Programme Room )
Julie Gianni Syndrome, 2026.
Concrete, Polyethylene bag, Rubble, Paper, Cardboard, Plaster, Candy. 

She’s Laughing as She Dies, 2026.
Polystyrene, OSB, Plaster, Stoneware tiles, Paper, Candy.

Strewn throughout the building, acting as nests or Easter eggs, Ffion’s sculptures map a landscape that is familiar yet not. The exhibited pieces share a sense of displacement. The works reflect elements of the artist’s research into journeys, walking, site specificity and world-building. As well as the worlds we navigate daily online and offline. Textures and materials reference the spaces or landscapes they were found in, with the majority of objects sourced from, around, or reflecting the artist’s current environment in Thanet.

Focusing on a series of images taken on a trip to Marseille 3 years prior, Ffion pulls from material elements of the lonely, industrial structures and objects found around the coastal city. Remembering and embodying the same sense of mundanity, elevated heat, and chaos that she encountered whilst making, researching and existing in the coastal town of Margate. 

Blobby in form, with recurring colours and senses, the pieces also hold a sense of loneliness, confusion and melancholy. Humour and self-deprecation are ever-present, alluding to the artist’s three pillars of influence within her work: Rejection, Destruction and Pop Culture.

Ffion Colquhoun-O’Brien is an artist based in Margate. Her practice explores aspects of contemporary popular culture and the Anthropocene, primarily through sculpture and installation. Mapping environments of the “other,” she uses found and discarded materials to create works in which the remnants of society are brought together. Blobby, vulgar, and fragmented forms grapple with the construction of identity and narrative—both in physical and digital realms—and examine how these constructs can malfunction in everyday life, creating a sense of both familiarity and disconnect.

Ffion also works with clay, analogue photography, and print publication. She graduated with first-class honours in Art Writing from the University of the West of England in 2024.