Sarah Muirhead | A Ghost Only You Can Name (Part 2)

Returning in February, A Ghost Only You Can Name (Part 2) extends Sarah Muirhead’s August exhibition with a new body of work shaped by interruption, recovery, and persistence. Alongside three new oil paintings that continue her exploration of memory and devotion, the exhibition introduces Lucid Scribbles: seventeen intimate drawings made during and immediately after the first presentation of the show.

Produced while Muirhead was confined to her flat following a knee injury, the drawings began as a practical necessity and became a compulsive, meditative counterpoint to the paintings. Working from her own photographs, she builds intuitive mental collages - layering fragments of remembered imagery into works that feel private, illogical, and intensely focused. Drawing here is not preparatory, but an end in itself: a way of thinking through frustration, desire, and the unreliability of memory when the body is forced to slow down.

Seen together, the new paintings and sketchbook works sharpen the exhibition’s central concern with how moments are transformed through repetition and care. If the August presentation asked what survives once something is gone, this second chapter considers what happens when we return - again and again - to the same images, the same ghosts.

The exhibition coincides with a four-day in-gallery residency by the artist, offering visitors direct insight into Muirhead’s working process and reinforcing the show’s underlying premise: that remembering, like making, is an active, ritualised act.