IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE

Guest Curator: Ashleigh Wilson
Launch: Saturday 17 January 2026, 7–9pm

CCA Derry~Londonderry in collaboration with NI Screen are pleased to present IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE, a group exhibition curated by Ashleigh Wilson, opening as part of New Curating 2026. The exhibition runs from 17 January–14 March 2026 and features work by Thomas Hunter, Sabi Nicholson and Lucy Tevlin.

IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE draws on archival material and lens-based media to explore how images are shaped by time, technology and the act of looking. The exhibition considers the gallery as a space where narratives shift and meaning is continually re-formed. Archives are unearthed and disrupted, environments seep into the gallery space, and obsolete technologies are reanimated. Across photography and film, the works reflect on technological change, environmental crisis and questions of belonging, presenting images as unstable, partial and often elusive.

Thomas Hunter presents a two-screen installation combining personal footage with archival news material from the North of Ireland. Growing up in Belgium, Hunter encountered Ireland through family trips and mediated images of conflict. Tourist imagery of rural landscapes are interrupted by newsreel footage from the later years of the Troubles, while live audience movement within the gallery actively distorts the work in real time, implicating viewers in the construction of memory and place.

Sabi Nicholson’s installation responds to the ecological crisis at Lough Neagh. Drawing on archival fishing documentaries, Nicholson projects warped imagery through contaminated lough water, alongside lumen prints made using local flora. Sound, water and image spill into the gallery, reflecting on environmental degradation and the lough as a haunted and unstable landscape.

Lucy Tevlin presents unopened rolls of shot and developed 8mm film sourced online, their contents unknown to both artist and viewer. Accompanied by speculative texts and projections, the work shifts attention away from the image itself and towards the fragile technologies and structures that produce it, questioning how images are made, withheld and imagined.

Curated by Ashleigh Wilson — an artist, researcher and cultural producer based in Belfast — IT’S NOT CLEAR FROM HERE reflects on the precarious status of images in a supposedly post-conflict Northern Ireland, where histories remain unresolved and narratives continue to shift.

The exhibition will be accompanied by a programme of public events.