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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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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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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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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Nature’s Mysterious Networks: Mushrooms, Mycelia and Yeasts

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 […]

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News, Other

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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Bugs: Beauty and Danger

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 […]

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Richard Long

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 […]

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Sunlight and Gravity: Roger Ackling and Richard Long

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, […]

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