The Wash Estuary is one of the most remarkable landscapes in Britain, yet it remains surprisingly little known even among many of the people who live around it. A vast estuary stretching between the Lincolnshire coast and West Norfolk, it is a place shaped by water, tides, geology, human endeavour and constant change. Historically washes […]
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Laurie Jeanne is a ceramicist whose practice centres on Autobiographical Object-hood. This is a framework in which the vessel and the artist undergo the same event, and the clay carries the proof of it. ‘The oldest known fired ceramic objects have survived thirty thousand years. Every vessel I make might survive as long. That is […]
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Lauries Jeanne is a ceramic artist. Jeanne’s practice centres on Autobiographical Objecthood: a framework in which the vessel and the artist undergo the same event, the clay carries the proof of it. Jeanne forms unpotes (hand built companion vessels) directly within specific environments: tidal, woodland, ecological. The landscape is not a backdrop, it is a […]
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The GroundWork Residency 2026 has an ambitious and widening focus on the globally important but under-recognised Wash Estuary, from Lincolnshire to Norfolk. Read on to discover who has been selected to take part this year
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James Murray-White ’s journey as a creative practitioner began with theatre and storytelling. An early mentor for him was Derek Jarman, advising him on a theatre/poetry piece he worked on in Edinburgh in 1991.‘It was an encounter that introduced me to the possibilities of poetic, visionary filmmaking and art making in the widest sense, long […]
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Laura Middleton explores the interplay between reflection, abstraction, and nature. For her, water serves as both subject and metaphor. Her paintings invite viewers to engage with different layers of reality. These range from the reflections on the surface, the sky above, and the riverbed below. Laura Middleton creates scenes which reflect how she experiences the […]
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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 […]
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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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Lynn Dennison explores our relationship with our surroundings and how we see and experience our environment. She works across several disciplines, including still and moving image, installation and collage. Her single and multiple screen videos are often based on the documentary of place, exploring themes of memory, history, nostalgia, and the boundaries between the real […]
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GroundWork is now closed for the winter season, reopening March 18th with ‘Waste Not…..’.
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Join us for a live and lively discussion in the gallery with some of the artists in the room with us and some joining live by WhatsApp
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Spend an exclusive day at the gallery enjoying the exhibition with Mary Blue. Make your own response to Deep Water at her writing and painting workshop and create your own concertina book
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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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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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Water and art – where is the wisdom? Where is the power? Simon Wearne and Kumi Kato, based in Wakama Prefecture, Japan led our final event in the Japan Water series.
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The second Japan Water conference centred on the theme of power.
and was an on-line event, Friday 25 June, 2-6pm BST. The recorded talks will soon be available on this website.
Water is a complex and huge subject. This was an on-line event, part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival, held on Friday 21st May, 2-4pm BST. If you missed it you can watch the video of the event here
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Catch a glimpse of this exhibition and meet the artists via Assembly Online’s virtual preview, held on 1st April 2021. You can watch the video of the event here.
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Peter Matthews is an artist whose studio is in the ocean and shore. He creates paintings while immersed in water. Hours can pass as he allows the sea and elements to engulph him as he draws and paints. His practice also embraces film, sculpture and photography as he responds to the environment and records its […]
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14 April to 31 July 2021 Lisa Keiko Kirton, Jonathan Meuli, Isao Miura, Nana Shiomi, Hakan Topal, Shizuka Tatsuno Japan Water features artists who have been thinking for a long time about the effects of water in Japan. The purity of water is essential for so much of Japanese culture, from food through to paper-making. […]
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Living with water: March – May 2019 March – May 2019 Living with Water was a project with the Forward Day Centre for Adults with Learning Difficulties taking place in British Science Week, 2019. Also, the community engagement programme for Water Rising was supported by Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear Campaign. We worked together with […]
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