Family Secrets, 2025 - 2026. Solo intervention, Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, East Sussex.

Family Secrets is a special intervention that uses sculpture and colour to activate the ceramics collection at Hastings Museum & Art Gallery.

Kim L Pace’s strange, surreal and symbolic figures are placed in dialogue with the museum’s collection, animating ceramics from function into fiction. Pace’s new story-vessels and ceramic sculptures reflect her fascination with the varying ways in which we experience the world, and how the lives of those before us shape who we are today. Her sculptural objects - 17 in total - blur artifact and emotion, suggesting each becomes a container, where viewers are encouraged to imagine what family secrets, forgotten narratives, and intimate truths might be held within these works. Drawing upon historical sculptural and ceramic forms and the silent inheritance of family history, Pace’s sculptures also remind us that the adjacent museum objects, along with their secrets and provenances, are also passed down and passed on.