TENDER THREADS, CHRISTINA RANKIN AND EUGENIE GULLIFER-LAURIE    2026
Artemisia Gallery


‘Tender Threads’ is a collaboration by emerging artists Eugenie (Gigi) Gullifer-Laurie (they/she, b.1999) and Christina Rankin (she/they, b.2001).

This exhibition finds the common threads in two artists’ practices, weaving together their respective experiences of neurodiversity, bodily autonomy, gendered expectations, and the complexity of a selfhood shaped by institutional systems. In both Eugenie and Christina’s works, the human form is simultaneously an embodiment of normative standards and restrictive ideologies, and a site of gentle protest against them. Across the two bodies of work, the artists question the boundary between internal and external, using mixed materials to merge tactile and corporeal subjects with the invisible sensations and emotions they experience.



Holy Trinity in Five, 2026
Annie, are u ok?, 2026
Brain Gel, 2026 
Sanctity, 2026
Divinity of the CNS , 2026
Implanted, 2026
Blood and Bone, 2026
Inner Body Yellows (Mitski), 2026
Breaking through the Surface, 2026



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I would like to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the unceded lands on which I live, the peoples of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung, Bunurong/Boon Wurrung, and Dja Dja Wurrung language groups of the Kulin Nation, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present.