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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12 July – 6 September 2025 Ground Water is an exhibition which takes fresh and original approaches to the watery landscapes of West Norfolk. Myka Baum, Rebecca Hearle, Helen Kilbride, Anna Marris, Hilary Powell, Katy Sayers Green, Franek Wardynski, Caroline Wheeler Ground Water continues a theme which has guided the 4th year of the GroundWork […]
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Henny Burnett is interested in the dynamics of opposites: domestic and industrial, useful and useless, temporary or permanent, beautiful and ugly,. She is a mixed media artist working mainly in sculpture and installation, and focusing on the domestic and everyday. The artist’s work, ’365 Days of Plastic’ was the start of her investigation of the […]
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13 July – 7 September 2024 Featuring artists: Victoria Lucas, Joanna Whittle, Maud Haya-Baviera Heavy Water Collective have responded to GroundWork Gallery’s extraction theme for its summer residency programme, by presenting a body of work that brings together research developed primarily in response to the Sedgwick Museum of Earth Sciences in Cambridge. The Heavy Water […]
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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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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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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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Thinking about the implications of aggregate extraction, concrete production and the impact on coastal change
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Come and join us on Saturday to meet Sara Grisewood, artist in residence from University of the Arts, London, while her work is still in progress
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An evolving exhibition and artist in residence projects: 16 July – 26 August and 2 – 30 September (closed 27 August – 1 September) Featuring works by Darren Almond, Onya McCausland, Chris Drury, Shaun Fraser, Kaitlin Ferguson, Anthony Powis, Frankie Turk, Sara Grisewood, Kathryn Maguire, Aindreas Scholz For Extraction: Loss and Restoration, GroundWork Gallery will […]
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GroundWork’s summer project: Extraction 2: Loss and Restoration relates to some of the core issues about stone quarries. We began this focus by joining in with the important Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss programme, which started in 2021 in the United States. Last summer we had a successful series of 3 artist’s […]
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Extraction is the practice of taking resources and minerals out of the earth. Join us on 30 September for The Offer, an on-line event to hear all about artist’s involvement with this important environmental issue
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Hear about the beginnings of our artistic research into extractive industries, looking at quarry operations in Norfolk
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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 […]
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A huge ‘Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss’ project in the United States is ‘raising a ruckus’ globally to stop environmental damage. It began in the United States in 2018, initiated by the CODEX Foundation in Berkeley California. The late Edwin Dobb and Peter Rutledge Koch started it all. They wanted to rally […]
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Linked to: Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss GroundWork Gallery’s Extraction Project Residencies GroundWork Gallery’s extraction project residencies will involve artists and partnerships working sustainably with flint, chalk, carr stone and silica sand. We are delighted to be part of the Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss programme. It is […]
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