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River, art and activism

This is a story about the river, art and environmental activism. Norfolk’s chalk rivers became a big theme during our residency programme last summer. As we are opening up a new round of the GroundWork artists residency programme, I am looking back to think about some of last year’s results and outcomes we can reflect […]

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International Women’s Day, Art & Environment

This is the week for International Women’s Day. For us it provides an excuse to celebrate women, to highlight their contribution to art and environment. The big question lots of people are asking is – ‘Is International Women’s Day a good initiative or not?’ Our question is: ‘What is it that women artists bring to […]

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Nature, art and the doorstep environment

Throughout lockdown, artists have been immensely resourceful by looking harder at local detail. Sometimes they found it on their excursions, often however it was right under their noses at home. Constantly, they contributed ideas to a wider narrative about the environment.

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Running and environment.

A young London runner talks about a sharpened sense of how running and environment connect at the moment. First we talked on film and then transcribed the text below. VS We’re talking about running and environment. And so I just wondered if we could have an overall view at the start about what you feel […]

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Grasping the Nettle – weeding, cooking and health

Veronica Sekules A boy brushed a Nettle and was stung by it. His mother told him: “It stung you because you brushed it lightly. Next time grasp it boldly and it will be soft as silk and not hurt you.”A fable attributed to Aesop. The moral? ‘Whatever you do, do it with all your might’. […]

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We wrote on the edge

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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