Lily Honey-Doyle / Iona Ogilvy-Stuart
Lucy Young / Rosaline Zipporah

Tensile Strength

Opening Night
Tuesday 14th April 2026 | 5:30-8:30pm

  • Wednesday 15th April | 12-8pm
    Thursday 16th April | 10am-2pm
    Friday 17th April | | 10am-2pm
    Saturday 18th April | | 10am-2pm
    Wednesday 22nd April | 10am-2pm
    Thursday 23rd April | 10am-2pm
    Sunday 26th April | 10am-2pm
    Monday 27th April | 10am-2pm
    Tuesday 28th April | 10am-2pm
    Thursday 30th April| 10am-2pm
    Saturday 2nd May | 10am-2pm
    Sunday 3rd May | 10am-2pm


  • Sunday 3rd May | 12-2pm
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  • Lily Honey-Doyle’s unabashed steel sculptures emphasise human connections, dynamics and ruptures, focusing on animal and insect imagery. Using metal as a mirror to the human condition forces the viewer to see themselves in each sculpture and creates a space for introspection. Overall it is a play on the relationship between viewer and sculpture, placing onlookers in positions of power or vulnerability that reflect social institutions of everyday life.
    https://www.instagram.com/_honeydoyle/

    Iona Ogilvy Stuart’s bronze work reveals the enduring energy of the past. They emphasise the often-invisible processes of decay that are happening in plain sight. Her bronze casts of organic materials create a survivability to fragile, often lost matter.
    Website: https://ionaogilvystuart.com/

    Lucy Young is an Irish artist based in Leeds. Her figurative sculptures are made from patinated mild steel, whilst often incorporating found objects such as car parts.

    Her work utilises humour whilst examining all aspects of youth culture. Encompassing the good, the bad and the ugly parts of being young, her work talks about grief and homesickness yet also speaks of the joys of dancing and raving.  

    Recent works have been increasingly interactive through kinetic, moving elements. The sculptures engage in performance in place of the artist.
    https://www.instagram.com/art.lucyyoung/

    Rosaline Zipporah’s ‘Mock Mock Ironwork’ sculptures reinterpret the iconic metalwork features of our everyday environments, then repositions them in contemplative spaces to be experienced rather than absentmindedly viewed. Rosaline’s practice has two distinct sides: the craftsmanship of the making process, and the communal gathering events she puts on to display her works.

    Rosaline’s intentional approach to experiencing sculpture allows the labour of the work to be more deeply understood. Her practice aims to spotlight the possibility of interplay between a hardened, traditional medium and communal sensorial encounters.
    https://www.instagram.com/rosalinception/


Four Women in Metalwork by Bruce Davies

‘Tensile Strength’ is an exhibition showcasing the work of four women sculptors whose work stands on the threshold of another world, the post-education world of art.

Whether it is the seemingly absurd sculptures of Rosaline Zipporah, the sinister insectoid work of Lily Honey-Doyle, the molten abstraction of Iona Ogilvy Stuart or the overt humour of Lucy Young, all have one thing in common: a dedication to exploring the material qualities of metal through sculpture. 

For this exhibition, these four female artists have brought together a selection of works that highlight and celebrate the craftswomanship evident in their practices.