Light Loss Destruction Devotion
By Natalie Chapman, Rory Chapman, Lola Chapman, and Harriet Chapman
Private View | Fri 19 Jun 2026, 5pm to 7pm
Public Exhibition | Mon 22 Jun to Fri 17 Jul 2026
Exhibition Overview
Light Loss Destruction Devotion brings together four artists whose practices sit in conversation with one another through shared experience, material sensitivity, and an unflinching engagement with the human condition.
Working across painting, photography, and abstraction, Natalie, Rory, Lola, and Harriet Chapman each explore different facets of memory, identity, and emotional survival. The exhibition moves between the personal and the collective, holding space for vulnerability, resistance, and transformation.
Themes of trauma, perception, landscape, and psychological tension run throughout, creating a body of work that is both intimate and confrontational. Rather than offering resolution, the exhibition invites reflection. It asks what is lost, what is carried forward, and what remains when we strip things back to their most honest form.
This exhibition will feature new work created specifically for Gateway Gallery.
The Artists
Natalie Chapman
Natalie Chapman’s practice centres on the human experience, navigating trauma, healing, and the inequalities faced by women. Through bold, expressive painting, her work captures both vulnerability and resilience, using colour and gesture to convey emotional intensity.
Her work engages deeply with the psychological and the social, exploring how personal histories intersect with wider structures of power and expectation. Through this, she creates spaces for reflection, catharsis, and empowerment.
Natalie’s work has been exhibited widely, including at MOMA Wales, RBSA Birmingham, and the National Library of Wales, and she has been shortlisted for several major prizes including the Ruth Borchard Self Portrait Prize.
Links
www.nataliechapmanartist.co.uk
Instagram: @nataliechapmanartist
Rory Chapman
Rory Chapman works across photography and film, creating photo textual narratives that explore psychology, identity, and socio political tension. His practice draws from documentary, editorial photography, and narrative cinema, often rejecting traditional ideas of polish or perfection.
His work challenges the viewer directly, confronting themes of mental health, repression, and the pressure to conform. Rather than aesthetic comfort, Rory’s work offers confrontation and reflection, questioning the cost of perfection and the realities we suppress.
Rory’s work has been exhibited internationally and is held in the permanent collection at Cyfarthfa Castle following his award in the Juxtaposed Art Prize 2025.
Links
www.rorychapman.com
Instagram: @blindeyerory
Lola Chapman
Lola Chapman’s work translates the lived experience of landscape into colour, movement, and form. Drawing from the terrain of West Wales, her paintings capture atmosphere rather than depiction, creating immersive, sensory responses to place.
Working instinctively, Lola builds compositions through layered gestures that echo shifting light, weather, and memory. Her work exists between abstraction and recognition, holding both the intimacy of personal experience and the expansiveness of the natural world.
Links
Instagram: @lolarosechapman.art
Harriet Chapman
Harriet Chapman’s work explores internal landscapes through abstraction, drawing on memory, dreams, and personal symbolism. Her paintings transform autobiographical material into layered visual language, where meaning is suggested rather than fixed.
Recurring motifs and familiar forms appear throughout her work, acting as carriers of memory and emotional resonance. By maintaining ambiguity, Harriet creates space for viewers to connect their own experiences with the work, bridging the personal and the universal.
Links
http://www.harriettchapman.com/
Instagram: @harriettchapmanartist