Join an extraordinary waste walk with Kai Lossgott and try out his toolkit for the ecological imagination. Part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Suitable for families.
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Mystical Mycelium with Rain Wu: a making workshop for Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Mystical Mycelium with Rain Wu. A hands-on workshop to explore the possibilities of mycelium, then grow your own mycelium planter to take away.
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Life, Debris and Other Stories
Join renowned writer Patricia Mullin to be inspired by the Art of Waste to create your own word compositions
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Learn to make art in virtual reality: a day workshop Tuesday 29 November
Delve into even more extraordinary underwater artistry with VR. Join Karen Eng on 29th November and she will introduce you in just one day to the tools with which you can make your own work of art – which could be your own virtual coral reef
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Deep Water painting workshop with Mary Blue. Tuesday 15 November
Spend an exclusive day at the gallery enjoying the exhibition with Mary Blue. Make your own response to Deep Water at her writing and painting workshop and create your own concertina book
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Slow Art Day
Slow Art Day is an international event in museums and galleries everywhere. As the name suggests, it is all about slowing down. Slow looking. But also for us it is about slow making. Making work together, learning new skills. Sitting together and chatting as we do so. Join us Saturday 2 April from 12-4 – […]
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Wording the Edgelands. Tuesday 14 June
An eco-poetry workshop led by kin’d and kin’d Tuesday 14 June 11-5 Wording the Edgelands was kin’d and kind’s eco-poetry writing workshop. In two different ways: ‘meet and merge’, it explored the themes of the FieldWork exhibition. Say kin’d and kin’d: ‘Through traditional and wilded poetic forms we will trace the edge-lands between rural and […]
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The Artistic Forager: talks and walks with haptic/tacit. Sunday 15 May
Part of the Norfolk and Norwich Festival programme Join us in becoming an artistic forager. For this afternoon of talking and walking we will be led by artist-collective haptic/tacit to seek creative treasure in the ordinary world.
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An Eco-poetry Workshop by kin’d & kin’d
Composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d held an inspiring day exploring what eco-poetry means.
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Doorstep Environment Poetry
Happening NOW! Karen Eng is leading a writing residency for this end-November week, focusing on the environment. Eight stunning writers are refining a piece of writing and discussing together each day. Watch this space for the outcomes….
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Pivotal: Jeni Smith & Alice Finbow
Pivotal – art, writing, environment | ways to collaborate, Saturday 25 November 2017 This workshop, run by mother and daughter Jeni Smith and Alice Finbow, was the starting point for collaborative conversations and ways to generate ideas between and across visual and text-based media. People who attended were not necessarily working already in a collaborative process, […]
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Environment and Memory: Emilie Dufresne
Environment and Memory, Saturday 10th November, 2018 A poetry workshop with Emilie Dufresne We held a psychogeography poetry workshop asking people to consider memory of place and experience of place over time. The workshop included walks around the town, inviting participants to experience their environment blind, and then later in the workshop try and retrace […]
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A Journey through Water: Patricia Mullin
Previous writing workshops A Journey Through Water | Exploring poetic geography, Monday 20 May 2019 A creative writing masterclass with Patricia Mullin Working over a day with exclusive use of the gallery and guided by expert published writer and artist, Patricia Mullin, participants were encouraged to develop a beautiful piece of writing. And then they […]
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Write on the edge: Karen Eng
Write on the edgeSunday 15 December, 2019 10-4 This was a one day’s writing retreat at GroundWork Gallery with Karen Eng. We enjoyed the final moments of the exhibition ‘On the Edge’. Taking initial inspiration from the exhibition, Karen took us on a journey from idea to realisation, considering some of the innovative ways our […]
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Art and Politics of Trash: Emilie Dufresne
Saturday 28 April 2018, 2.00 – 6.00 pm Followed by showing of the award-winning film Trashed, 6.30 – 8.30 pm The Spring season 2018 featured an exciting variety of events. A study day on the Art and Politics of Waste; Readings and courses on The Poetry of Waste; A special showing of Trashed, a film […]
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