Come and join innovative artist Olya Anima to explore your Identity ‘Planting Myself’ through the metaphor of a plant. A Workshop, Thursday afternoon, 8 May Instead of a traditional self-portrait, in Planting Myself, you will reimagine yourself as a plant—a towering tree, a delicate vine, a resilient wildflower, or an entirely abstract botanical form. What […]
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Join Olya Anima to learn about egg decorating with plants, a traditional Latvian skill. Experiment with natural forms and colours to create some beautiful and surprising patterns. Through natural egg decorating with plants, participants will discover how to create stunning, naturally dyed Easter eggs using simple, plant-based techniques. By wrapping eggs with leaves and onion […]
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Take a river walk with a difference and see King’s Lynn’s watery routes in new ways. Artist James Aldridge and Norfolk Rivers Trust’s Tim Fisher will take you through the town along the Purfleet, the Great Ouse, the Nar and the Gaywood. Along with their insight and expertise you will be encouraged to draw and […]
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Meet Heavy Water Collective in person and join us all for a heritage weekend and exhibition closing events.There will be a discussion, exhibition tour and family workshop. This will take place just after John Lord is doing us a final flint-knapping demonstration at the gallery, and all coincides with King’s Lynn’s amazing Heritage Open Day […]
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Enjoy a 2 day workshop led by artists Lucy Dukes and Laura Melissa Williams who will share their excitement, passion and discoveries about this amazing plant species and what we can learn from it.
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John Lord is a master flint-knapper, one of the best and most experienced in the world. Come to see him in action on 7 September, the last day of his exhibition,. You must book via Eventbrite
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Join us on March 23-24, for Visions of the Earth a weekend paint-Studio with Mary Blue, taking place in the gallery and in our comfortable new GroundWork Apartment next door.
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Foil Drawing workshop with Lucy Dukes: “ Relics of the Anthropocene & imagined futures” Saturday 9 September and Sunday 10 September (Heritage Open Day)2-4 FREE (drop-in) Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes has just been UAL Art for the Environment artist in residence at GroundWork Gallery for this summer This is a vey informal set-up. Lucy will […]
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Join us on Wednesday afternoons for our friendly re-sew drop in workshops. Mend and re-purpose your old clothes and textiles. No experience necessary
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Join Kaitlin Ferguson on 23rd September for an enjoyable workshop around our kitchen table learning to make 3D printed items from waste and biomaterials like coffee and chalk
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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 hands-on workshop to explore the possibilities of mycelium, then grow your own mycelium planter to take away.
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Join renowned writer Patricia Mullin to be inspired by the Art of Waste to create your own word compositions
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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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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 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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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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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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Composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d held an inspiring day exploring what eco-poetry means.
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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 – 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, 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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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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In the last days of 2019, GroundWork invited writers to come to the edge. Seven gathered, retreating from the chaos and consumption of the days before Christmas, choosing instead to go within and consider what we could create – inspired by the interplay between art and words in the serene December light reflected from the […]
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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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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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