For What lasts doesn’t always hold shape, Drew returns to video installation after two decades to mark her artistic debut in London. This return builds directly on her 2023 exhibition rock, fruit, flower, where stones were staged amidst softened, blurred grounds, appearing suspended, almost asteroidal. Printed on aluminium and physically bent and folded, this body of work pulled photography into sculptural space, further teasing out perceptual and spatial concerns.

In her latest work The long answers of water light and rock, these previously static scenes are set into perpetual motion and expanded into an immersive projection. Through layered perspectives, shifting scale and theatrical motion, rocks become protagonists within the architectural space, unsettling photographic distance and inviting an embodied encounter with material as something unstable, infinite and alive. 

Spanning a career of over 40 years, Drew’s work reflects on the shifting nature of photography in a world of ubiquitous, constructed images, questioning how the medium represents reality and shapes our understanding of it. Through layered perspectives, shifting scale, and immersive motion, she continues to employ rock as a metaphor for both distance and closeness, exploring the Anthropocene, the agency of non-human matter, and the precariousness of the world. Her practice considers how cultural works might contribute to societal shifts, offering experiences that are beautiful, reflective, and disorienting, urging us to rethink our impact and our place within the environment.