Carrie-Ann Stein’s practice treats image-making as an act of assembly and repair. Working from fragments - lesser-known historical paintings, traces of textile labour and staged photographs - she recomposes imagery digitally before transferring it into layers of acrylic on wood. The surfaces carry seams, abrasion and residue, registering handling as much as depiction. Motifs of gathering recur; figures cluster and dance, suggesting community not as subject but as structure - the way parts hold one another up. Psychoanalytic thinking informs an attention to what is remembered, rubbed back or returns. Rather than nostalgia, Stein seeks lift: colour and light that hold difficulty while making room for joy. Editions are deliberately small and hand-finished so each print bears unique wear and touch.