"What we make with our hands has a voice..."

Aurora Barrett is an artist from the North West of England.

Aurora's multidisciplinary practice is visceral, tactile, and psychologically charged, navigating the space between memory, subconscious imagery, and reflections on her present life as a mother.

Central to her work is the use of antique and found textiles, materials she refers to as her “elders”. Through these inherited fabrics, Aurora engages with ideas of temporality, preservation, and the emotional residue held within objects, creating works that foreground both fragility and endurance.

In opposition to contemporary society’s cold, chimerical obsession with beauty and youth, Aurora's subjects and processes attend instead to impermanence, softness, and corporeal truth. Marks of wear, irregularity, and fragility within both the works and their inherited materials are not concealed, but elevated as gestures of tenderness and human authenticity.

After studying Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, she then furthered her studies in Costume Design at London College of Fashion. She later worked within the costume industry before returning to her artistic practice. Aurora's work has since been exhibited in galleries across London and the South East of England.