Hetty Douglas

Haricot Gallery is thrilled to present ‘Miracle State’ a solo presentation of new works by Hetty Douglas.

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‘If we were born whole, but then we became fragmented in our body, mind and spirit through abandonment and shame (mortification) then we need help finding a way to return to our Miracle State.’

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Shame. An intense feeling of being faulty, ruptured, inferior at the core. A burning stomach, shrinking body, spiralling inward in the chest. Constricted throat. Difficulty in breathing and speaking, feeling glared at by others. These symptoms destroy our ability to trust. As adults we can have a mistaken sense that something is wrong with us without knowing why.

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Hetty Douglas’s solo show Miracle State invites you to partake in a journey of psychological renewal. This exhibition can be described as the ‘inner drug store’. The shelves are stocked with the addiction of 

excitement, poison of shame, false fears, and the seduction of self-abandonment. Each work in this exhibition measures the weight of these learnt beliefs against the reforming of hope. These paintings emerge from the places where shame lives in the body, where anxiety simmers under the surface, creating works that feel like pages torn from a personal journal.

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Miracle State is an exploration of shadow, an opening to the possibility of self-reclamation and what it means to trudge ‘the road to happy destiny’.