Friday 15th November 2024 – Sunday 23rd February 2025

Commissioned by ‘a space’ arts, No Notion of Loving by Halves by Jocelyn McGregor is a site-specific multi-media installation and programme of live performances that take a deep dive into Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey and explore the intriguing and intense relationships the heroine, Catherine, develops with other female characters in the novel.

These relationships often lurch from familial and supportive to conspiratorial; from formal and funny to distant and heated; and can be ragingly competitive, passionate in both love and hate. They are complex, nuanced and fundamentally Gothic.

No Notion of Loving by Halves is a contemporary exploration of how these fictional relationships reflect Austen’s reality, the relationships developed between Gothic women authors through their works of fiction and how much these relationships still resonate in the work of many artists and authors today.

This exhibition is part of the Jane Austen at GHT programme, which also includes an exhibition of Jane Austen’s travelling writing desk, In Training for a Heroine. You can read more about it here.

About the artist:

Jocelyn McGregor is a multi-disciplinary artist based in North West England. She holds a BFA in Fine Art from the Ruskin School of Fine Art and an MFA in Sculpture at the Slade School of Fine Art. Awards include a Henry Moore Foundation Grant (2023), Sculpture in the City: Aldgate Square Commission 2022-23, the British Council SWAP UK/Ukraine Residency 2019-20 and Bloomberg New Contemporaries in 2018 (touring South London Gallery & Liverpool Biennale). Exhibitions include ‘DREDGED’ (solo) in partnership with Lakeland Arts and Arts&Heritage, Windermere Jetty Museum, Cumbria (2023-24); ‘Lapsus Calami’ curated by Eddie Peake, Marlborough London (2023-24); ‘Mantle’ (solo), Castlefield Gallery, Manchester, UK (2022); ‘Trespassers Will be Detected?’, Dnipro Centre for Contemporary Culture, Ukraine (2020); and ‘A Fieldguide to Getting Lost’, T.A.F, Athens, Greece, 2018.

This exhibition is free to attend, and to help us ensure the best possible experience for our visitors we are using timed entry tickets to access the exhibitions. Please ensure that you have booked your
ticket before visiting if you would like to visit the exhibitions as part of your visit to God’s House Tower.