Exhibition poster with Mercury 13 in text on a white textured background. There is a small space badge on the bottom right

Eva Dixon. Mercury 13

Name: Eva Dixon. Mercury 13
Start: 2025-11-07T12:00:00+00:00
End: 2025-12-11T18:00:00+00:00

Date

Fri 7 Nov - Thu 11 Dec 2025

No Booking Required

Opening 6th November 2025 | 7pm-9pm

Exhibition 7th November to 11th December

Gallery open to public Thursday to Friday 12pm-6pm

All other times by appointment (see website)

With the show Mercury 13, Eva Dixon evokes a fantastical narrative following the mission of the same name, where 13 women, after passing gruelling Astronaut training cloaked under a media blanket, were denied their chance at space flight after the programme was scrapped in 1962. Objects: woven fire hose, shiny industrial panels and a make-shift command module, built from reclaimed timber and stolen street signs, act as artefacts of Dixon’s alternate timeline, in which Wally Funk, an American aviation pioneer and member of the Mercury 13 in 1961, was the first American woman sent to space.

Text by Olivia Rumsey