15/09/25
Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay
Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan
Broadway Gallery, Letchworth Garden City
4 September – 18 October 2025
At its core, this is an exhibition about belonging and identity. It seeks literally and metaphorically to unravel the threads of familial narratives and to draw out the tales from archives and photo albums. It uses storytelling to draw the audience in, making us an implicit part of the narrative, calling up our own memories.
Four Cambridge-based artists – Beverley Carruthers, Bettina Furnée, Olga Jürgenson and Idit Elia Nathan – who have long been friends and critics of one another’s work, have come together, in what seems the most natural of fits, to create Leaving Were the Ones Who Could Not Stay, an exhibition that, in turn, seems to have the most natural of fits with Broadway Gallery, Letchworth, despite having premiered (in a smaller format) at Wysing Arts Centre last month.
Read my full review here