Residual Paths By Perri Huggett

Residual Paths by Perri Huggett is centred on the quiet, persistent pull to return home, both as a physical place and as a remembered emotional state.

Through themes of womanhood and girlhood, the works reflect on how identity is shaped by memory. Girlhood appears as a soft, fractured landscape; tender, naive, and unresolved, while womanhood emerges as its echo, heavier with awareness, responsibility, and distance from innocence. Nostalgia is treated not as comfort, but as ache, a space where memory blurs with imagination, and where the past becomes both refuge and wound.

The exhibition considers home as something continually chased but never fully reached. It is your family dinner table, your childhood bedroom, your body before it learned to brace itself. Grief threads through the works as an undercurrent, asking whether we mourn people, places, or versions of ourselves left behind.

Ultimately, this exhibition is about circling back, following emotional trails and residual paths in an attempt to return to what once was, knowing that arrival is impossible, yet the longing remains.