Olana Light explores the intricate relationship between humans and the natural world. Moving between sculpture, performance, and moving images, she investigates themes of belonging and identity. Essentially she is fostering a sense of unity and shared responsibility for the planet. Above all, Olana Light recognises that we are an integral part of nature. She aims […]
Read more
Katrin Spranger seeks to expose the tension between consumption, waste, and ecological awareness. In doing so she engages with materials that reference human exploitation of nature. Katrin Spranger is a multi-disciplinary artist working across sculpture, performance, sculptural painting, and jewellery. Her practice responds to environmental crises, addressing themes of plastic pollution, crude oil spills, water […]
Read more
Caroline Wright is an Irish multi-disciplinary artist now based in Suffolk, England. Caroline’s practice explores identity and loss in relation to place. She questions how we can hold onto things through making, referencing place attachment (Scannel, Gifford 2010), and the emotional cognitive bonds between an individual and a place. Negotiation between human body and nature […]
Read more
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.
Read more
Jan Alison Edwards creates a dialogue between herself the onlooker and the natural environment. Jan’s personal methodology relates to the polarisation of human-kind’s relationship with nature. Her work practice which has developed around these conceptual ideas. In terms of her artistic grounding, Jan discovered the art of paper-making in the studio of Maureen Richardson many […]
Read more
Gordon Senior is a sculptor whose major themes are linked to nature and humans’ relationship and influence upon it. His sculptures identify frozen moments in time in nature. Currently, these might represent significant pauses in the growth of arable grains and plants (farm weeds) that have become part of our natural landscapes In 2017 Gordon […]
Read more
Adam King ’s current work explores themes around masculinity and male representation. Much of Adam King ’s output is collage or drawing-based. He likes the immediacy of drawing and the contingency of collage; there’s alchemy and the potential for transformation. Collecting and assembling images, often making use of historical forms, he deconstructs and re-contextualises them. […]
Read more
Clive Adams is well known as the pioneering founder, in 1995, of the Centre for Contemporary Art and the Natural World (CCANW). This was Britain’s first art organisation dedicated to the causes and subjects of nature. Based in various locations in Devon, including its own project space at Haldon Forest Park from 2004 – 2013, […]
Read more
Nick Acheson has worked in the wild landscapes and seascapes of every continent, and has gained huge experience of their biodiversity. He exemplifies the environmentalist ideal, to think locally and act globally, and vice-versa. From his home in Norfolk, he has ranged widely in his interests and contacts. He has spent ten years in South […]
Read more
The Ear of the Sea was a programme of workshop activities held on Holme Beach, Norfolk. It was led by Jane Scobie who generously offered to put her work at its centre. The activities involved artists who had been in residence with the gallery in 2023. Conceived initially as a response to, and in opposition […]
Read more
We had a wonderful Dorset Art Week exhibition in West Bay, Bridport, with an absorbing art and environment panel discussion on 31 May all at Amanda Wallwork’s stunning studio space
Read more
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.
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
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 […]
Read more
Join us for a free evening of films and talks about East coast landscapes with artist duo Daniel and Clara
Read more
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.
Read more
Composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d held an inspiring day exploring what eco-poetry means.
Read more
22 October – 18 December 2021 Artists’ projects with mushrooms, mycelia and yeasts, featuring Chris Drury, Myka Baum, Alexandra Steiner, Alison Counsell, Rachel Horton-Kitchlew, Moira Williams Our end-of-year exhibition Nature’s Mysterious Networks, celebrates mushrooms, mycelia and yeasts, some of the more mysterious growths in nature. Subtle and varied, these are elements of our environment which […]
Read more
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.
Read more
1 August – 5 December 2020 Nicola Bealing, Arno van Berge Henegouwen, Jeroen Eisinga, Claudia Fährenkemper, Sarah Gillespie, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Aurora Sciabarra, Alison Turnbull. Stop Press: read this great review in the Spectator 14.03.20, by Mark Cocker: ‘Mother Nature is Finally Getting the Art she Deserves‘ https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/mark-cocker Bugs, Beauty and Danger is GroundWork gallery’s latest […]
Read more
Sir Richard Long has had a phenomenally distinguished and successful artistic career since the 1960s. Thoroughly a modernist, he developed distinctive work with land, nature and text. Even when he was barely out of Central St Martin’s art school, he stunned the art world with his innovative walks, turned into sculpture. The myriad of ways […]
Read more
15 July – 30 October 2016 Roger Ackling and Richard Long Richard Long chose the title ‘Sunlight and Gravity’ for GroundWork Gallery’s inaugural exhibition, . It describes very clearly the forces which the two artists worked with – harnessing some of the most powerful forces of nature. It also suggests a mood. Gravity for seriousness, […]
Read more
Join with our Instagram challenges to find art on our doorstep environment. There are just a few advantages and gains from lockdown. The environment has won out….
Read more