GroundWok residency
Projects

The GroundWork Residency 2024

Applications are now closed for the GroundWork residency….Almost everything we live in, on and among, has one way or another been extracted. It needs watching. Through our Ground Up residency programme we work together to be at the forefront of new thinking about artistic responses and influence.

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Art of Waste
News

The Art and Heritage of Waste

by Veronica Sekules We need to transform our attitudes to waste . It needs to be rehabilitated. Not as an inconvenience, nor as a disgusting embarrassment, nor even as a potentially random commercial resource. Waste needs to be recognised with its potential for longevity and status-change as art and heritage. Categories matter. A shift in […]

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Upcoming exhibition

Art for the Environment

Artists from AER International Residency Programme 16 March -8 June, 2024 Sophie Anna Gibbings, Nicholas Holt, Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes, Eleni Maragaki, Lucy + Jorge Orta, Beth Robertson Art for the Environment showcases work by some of the most exciting artists emerging today who are drawing attention to our fragile planet. Above all, each one […]

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Events

Join the artists to talk about the ground beneath our feet

Thursday 23 November 5-8 Henny Burnett, Caroline Chouler-Tissier, Lucy Dukes, Kelly Hill, Sam Hodge, Sophy King, Sophie Marritt, Heidi McEvoy-Swift, Kathryn Parsons, Jane Scobie, Amanda Wallwork Get ready to dive into an extraordinary exploration of the earth beneath us! This in-person event invites you to join our artists in residence as they discuss their experiences […]

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Lucy Dukes
Events, Workshops

Foil Drawing drop-in workshop

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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Judith Tucker dark marsh Plant power
Upcoming exhibition

Plant Power

Plant Power is all about how plant lives and ours interconnect. Artists who are concerned about plants in a time of climate change are finding ways to give us new intense images. Through the power of art, this is an exhibition which aims to consider the plant point of view. Plants are not merely a […]

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Kelly Hill detail from Creta no 4
Current exhibition

The Ground Beneath Our Feet. 2 September to 16 December 2023

The Ground Beneath Our Feet is the theme which introduces GroundWork’s annual artistic residency and summer exhibition programme. Taking the overall subject of Extraction for a third year, this time we opened it out to consider our immediate locality, from the physical to the more philosophical, from the aesthetic to the political. NOW EXTENDED TO […]

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Deep Water Julia Manning eels
Previous exhibitions

Deep Water

15 October 2022 – 17 December 2022 Deep Water: Women artists innovating with a variety of media to reflect on sea water pollution and dangers to wildlife and ocean environments. Mary Blue, Aude Bourgine, Colleen Flanigan, Zena Holloway, Julia Manning, Liz McGowan, Dawn Roe, Phillipa Silcock. The entire world is in Deep Water in many […]

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Previous exhibitions

Virtual Tour

Welcome to GroundWork Gallery’s virtual tour. Please enter and explore the building to see our last exhibition. Use a mixture of the arrow keys on your computer and your mouse to get around. There are three exhibition and project periods per year, so the tour will change regularly. This tour features Nature’s Mysterious Networks: Mushrooms, […]

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Previous exhibitions

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss

Extraction: Art on the Edge of the AbyssResidencies, projects and exhibition14 August – 2 October 2021 On exhibition throughout: works by Darren Almond, Andres Chang. Artists in residence: Kaitlin Ferguson, 9-22 August; Shaun Fraser, 23 Aug – 5 September; Rebecca Faulkner: University of the Arts, London, Art for the Environment Residency: 6-19 September. Extraction: the […]

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Award-winning gallery

Within its first year, GroundWork was already an award-winning gallery. Its first accolade was the prestigious Nick Reeves Award for Arts and Environment , won in 2017-2018. In the following year, in 2018, it reached the regional shortlist for the Civic Trust Awards. Thirdly, it became a finalist in the Norfolk Arts Awards. 2018 was […]

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GroundWork Gallery for art and environment. Through exhibitions and residencies, we campaign about nature, sustainability and climate change. Addressing climate change is our biggest challenge, discover here how artists are seeking new approaches. Join with us to share innovative ideas towards our goal of environmental sustainability. GroundWork Gallery shows work by contemporary artists who care […]

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Art and Environment

This is our manifesto GroundWork Gallery is dedicated to art and environment in its mission and in all its activities. All exhibitions are about the environment – the main mission of the gallery focuses on exhibiting the work of artists who are concerned about the environment through their work. The gallery engages in associated environmental […]

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About

About GroundWork Gallery…… GroundWork Gallery is dedicated to art and environment. It shows the work of contemporary artists who care about how we see the world. Exhibitions and creative programmes explore how art can enable us to respond to the changing environment and imagine how we can shape its future. “This small contemporary gallery is […]

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