Tomorrow’s Sorbet is a collaborative installation by London-based textile artists Heidi Pearce and Andia Coral Newton. Constructed as a stage-set domestic interior, the work explores denial as a flawed method of mental preservation and the desire to postpone difficult realities through optimism and distraction. Newton weaves the domestic architecture, rendered flat like a paper doll’s house, while Pearce creates the tailored, mannequin-like figures who inhabit it. As the familiar environment gradually reveals its fragility, the installation becomes an unsettling reflection on avoidance, the promise of a better “later”, and the psychological strategies we use to preserve a sense of normality.
Andia Coral Newton (b. 1998, Croydon, UK) is a London-based artist working primarily with textiles, alongside sound and installation. Through weaving, they explore psychological survival and the ways our relationships with the body, domestic environments and the wider world shape our fears, desires and hopes.
Newton’s works use recurring graphic symbols, including human-animal hybrids, domestic thresholds and elemental forces, to create a visual language for personal and collective anxieties. Their practice also examines the gendered histories of textile-making and the relationship between craft, domestic labour, art history and capital. Drawing on traditional techniques and historical references, Newton’s work remains distinctly future-facing and responsive to contemporary life.
Newton has exhibited in the UK and internationally, including at Whitechapel Gallery, TextielLab, JGM Gallery and YAG/Garage in Pescara. They were shortlisted for the 2023 Evening Standard Art Prize and is currently presenting work in exhibitions across London and the UK.
Heidi Pearce (b. 1996) is a London-based artist from Kent working across textiles, sculpture and installation. Central to her practice is a recurring dog-like figure that functions as a signature, through which she explores belonging, social interaction and humour through the lens of the uncanny.
Drawing on the quips, awkwardness and banality of everyday conversation, Pearce creates works that unsettle the familiar, using repetition and subtle shifts in context to question the social rituals that shape everyday life. Since graduating from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2019, Pearce has exhibited widely across London in galleries and non-traditional spaces, including churches, pubs, breweries and law firms. She also completed The School of the Damned Alternative Master's programme. Pearce's ongoing Light's On Theory proposes three conditions of the uncanny, Ambiguity, Familiarity and Darkness, as a way of extending the moment before an artwork is recognised as uncanny.
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