Our end-of-year exhibition celebrates mushrooms, mycelia and yeasts, some of the more mysterious growths in nature. Subtle and varied, these are elements of our environment which we know as food, as drink, as medicine, as nutrients for soil and plants. Mushrooms are utterly fascinating. They represent both life and death. Some are delicious for us […]
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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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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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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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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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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….
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