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Arusha Gallery are delighted to announce their first physical exhibition of this year,
Bloodroot, opens on the 7th June 2021, presenting new works by James Owens and Mary
Herbert.
Thinking through the prism of the recorded properties of the plant, Bloodroot welcomes you
into the dream-like realm of Mary Herbert’s luminous soft pastel drawings and James Owens’
imagined folk-like paintings to celebrate a time of re-emergence; exploring memories, past and
present, blurring the boundaries between the personal and collective.
I think the state of dreaming goes against a lot of how we are conditioned to …