By Lily Horton Out of the Depths, showing at GroundWork from March to June 2026, is an exhibition which juxtaposes heritage, old and new, reframing plastic along the way. It concerns the artifact and the present. Old wood, collected objects and historic origins meet newly-made structures, recent tragedies and contemporary rituals. Showcasing new works by […]
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This exhibition begins from a series of insights and conversations. Firstly, George Nuku has become fascinated with the extraordinary bronze age timber circle known as Seahenge. As a Maori, he is very attuned to connecting ceremonial with spirituality. For most of his professional life as an artist he has engaged with museums all over the […]
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George Nuku is an artist with a deep sensitivity to connections between all human life, nature and environment. Born in New Zealand and of Maori, Scottish and German descent, he creates extraordinary environments which connect strongly to his native culture and history. Arriving in Britain in 2006, his work was transformed from more or less […]
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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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