Join us on 4th November for our Remember Nature event, for the 10th anniversary of Gustav Metzger’s Remember Nature call to action, and help us to make an informal tribute to Gustav Metzger at his former, and formative, home in King’s Lynn.
Remember Nature
In 2015, Metzger initiated the Remember Nature project which invited all artists to address the crisis within nature. He intended to bring awareness to the damages that continue to devastate our natural world. Remember Nature was organised by Metzger and curators to be a designated day of action. The 4 November 2025 marks its 10th anniversary, in which events are presented in numerous galleries and museums and artist groups across the country.
We live in societies suffocating in waste. Our task is to remind people of the richness and the complexity in nature; to protect nature as far as we can and by doing so art will enter new territories that are inherently creative.
Gustav Metzger, 2015
Come to GroundWork Gallery for a tour of Fluid Earth, 4.00 – 5.15
(cover picture by Liz Ballard for Fluid earth)
To celebrate Remember Nature, GroundWork Gallery invite you to join a discussion about the current climate in connection with current exhibition, Fluid Earth, which explores the often uncomfortable fluidity of the earth’s environment, along with our attitudes and identities.
Followed by a visit to Woolmarket House, Metzger’s former studio, 5.30 – 7
Then we will walk over to Woolmarket House, his former home, for drinks
The tour of Fluid Earth will be followed by a visit and drinks reception at Woolmarket House, five minutes away on foot to see the fifteenth century building which served as Metzger’s studio whilst he lived in King’s Lynn. Hosted by Paul Barratt and Paul Vater who run Contemporary and Country, the building now houses their viewing room where they display a rolling programme of contemporary and applied art. There will be a new exhibition of North Sea Studies by Peter Wylie and recent shell work by Carolyn Brookes-Davies to view during this visit.
Booking
We prefer that you book in advance so we know numbers for catering
You can book on Eventbrite here https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/remember-nature-a-tribute-to-gustav-metzger-tickets-1825840450939
and / or Please RSVP to mail@groundworkgallery.com
Free, donations welcome.
Gustav Metzger in King’s Lynn
Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) was an artist and activist whose practice was directly targeted against environmental destruction.
‘Everything I know about activism, I learned in King’s Lynn’
Metzger lived for some 8 years in the town, for some time in what was St Nicholas House, now Woolmarket House. It was from here that he helped to campaign to save the cottages of the North End fishing community from development. While he felt that he failed, in that most of Pilot St was demolished to make way for what is now John Kennedy Road, nevertheless the campaign aroused his spirit as an activist. And two of the cottages he managed to save have since become the celebrated True’s Yard Museum.
Sensitive to heritage, around that time he also organised an exhibition Treasures from East Anglian Churches which has been sad to have inspired his sensitivity to the power of destruction, as so many of the artefacts had been damaged.
