Opening event: Thursday 15th January, 6:00PM — 8:00PM
Artist Talk: Friday 23rd January, 3:00PM onwards
Where: Field Trip Gallery
1 Latrobe Tce, Paddington
When: January 15th — January 19th, 2026
𝗩𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗵𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀:
Friday: 10am — 4pm
Saturday: 10am — 4pm
Sunday: 10am — 2pm
Monday: Closed
Tuesday: Closed
Wednesday: 10am — 2pm
Thursday: 10am — 4pm
EVERYTHING
I BROUGHT WITH ME
This exhibition presents a body of work developed by Miri Badger during her time in Oxford in July 2025. Comprising photographs, self-portraits, and mixed-media works on paper, the exhibition documents a period of physical relocation and emotional isolation.
Through an intimate process of photographing personal belongings and living spaces, Badger constructs visual records that are later transformed through ink and watercolour, expanding documentary images into layered, reflective compositions.
The works function both as an archive of a specific place (Pembroke College room 2.1) and time and as a meditation on solitude, presence, and self-observation.
The exhibition explores themes of isolation, displacement, and self-documentation. Living temporarily in Oxford, Badger experienced a heightened awareness of her surroundings and possessions. Cut off from familiar environments, everyday objects became stand-ins for identity, memory, and emotional grounding.
By photographing everything she brought with her, as well as everything contained within the college accommodation she lived in, Badger treats the personal inventory as both evidence and portrait. The act of photographing becomes a way of asserting presence and control within a transient space. Self-portraiture appears alongside these images, not as traditional likenesses but as fragmented or indirect representations of the self embedded within objects, rooms, and repeated visual motifs.