Applications are open for Fluid Earth, the title of GroundWork Gallery’s fifth annual artist residency and exhibition programme for 2025. It builds on our track-record of environmental art residencies which have taken a strongly inter-disciplinary approach. We welcome broad and imaginative approaches to the subject.
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(Cover Image: Roger Coulam, ‘Seaburn Steps’, 2019, from a series of photographs of storms at sea around NE English coastal lighthouses) Addressing climate change is our biggest challenge. Discover here how we are seeking interdisciplinary approaches with our artists and partners at the centre of new networks. Join with us to share innovative ideas towards […]
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Read here how Ackroyd and Harvey’s project Beuys’ Acorns inspires children to be interested in art and oak trees. Here they have been working with artist Johann Don Daniel as a pilot project at Whitefriars School in King’s Lynn. British artists Ackroyd and Harvey have been doing a wonderful project for years now, called Beuys’ Acorns. […]
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Come to an informal talk series by artists to accompany Art for the Environment. It is being hosted by UAL in various London venues
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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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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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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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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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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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8 March – 14 June 2025 Anna Dumitriu, Anne Geene, Deborah Gardner, Barbara Howey, Caroline Hyde Brown, Raji Salan, Aurora Sciabarra, Aindreas Scholz, Harriet Tarlo, Julie Tocqueville, Judith Tucker 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 […]
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We had a lively afternoon-evening on 29 June to talk to our artists about how waste can be a positive inspiration for art
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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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GroundWork is now closed for the winter season, reopening March 18th with ‘Waste Not…..’.
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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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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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Join us for a free evening of films and talks about East coast landscapes with artist duo Daniel and Clara
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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 […]
Read moreWithin 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 […]
Read moreGroundWork 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 […]
Read moreThis 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 […]
Read moreAbout 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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