Join us for drop in gatherings for the last chances in December this year, to sew on Wednesdays and draw on Fridays. Sociable and fun, you need no skills, just enthusiasm
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Creative River Walk with James Aldridge and Norfolk Rivers Trust: Saturday 23 November
Take a river walk with a difference and see King’s Lynn’s watery routes in new ways. Artist James Aldridge and Norfolk Rivers Trust’s Tim Fisher will take you through the town along the Purfleet, the Great Ouse, the Nar and the Gaywood. Along with their insight and expertise you will be encouraged to draw and […]
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The Ground Up Conference: Friday 15 – Saturday 16 November
Featured image photo above by Kelly Hill Photography The Ground Up Conference is a GroundWork NetWork event. Over the last year more than 20 artists have been working together with GroundWork Gallery and partners, and with all kinds of other collaborations, sharing expertise. The Ground Up Conference, is broadly about extraction – of any material […]
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Meet Heavy Water Collective: Saturday 7- Sunday 8 September
Meet Heavy Water Collective in person and join us all for a heritage weekend and exhibition closing events.There will be a discussion, exhibition tour and family workshop. This will take place just after John Lord is doing us a final flint-knapping demonstration at the gallery, and all coincides with King’s Lynn’s amazing Heritage Open Day […]
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AER Conversations
Come to an informal talk series by artists to accompany Art for the Environment. It is being hosted by UAL in various London venues
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Mossibilities: exploring the art and ecology of moss
Enjoy a 2 day workshop led by artists Lucy Dukes and Laura Melissa Williams who will share their excitement, passion and discoveries about this amazing plant species and what we can learn from it.
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Live flint-knapping demonstration: Saturday 7 September
John Lord is a master flint-knapper, one of the best and most experienced in the world. Come to see him in action on 7 September, the last day of his exhibition,. You must book via Eventbrite
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GroundWork Gallery on Tour for Dorset Art Week
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
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Sensing Trees
Come to an exciting live and interactive Sunday afternoon conversation about the sound and music of trees, which includes a walk with an arboriculturalist to see some of King’s Lynn’s important local trees. An event for Norfolk & Norwich Festival.
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GroundWork Guest
Come to meet our first GroundWork Guest,Madeleine Spencer. She will be showing and selling her current jewellery collection,Saturday December 16, 11-4 GroundWork Guest is a new series of pop-up appearances by prominent artists and makers. Hosted by Associate Director, Catherine Regina Austin-Fell, our GroundWork Guest will bring some choice and exclusive items from their current […]
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Visions of the Earth: GroundWork Paint-Studio
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.
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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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Foil Drawing drop-in workshop
Foil Drawing workshop with Lucy Dukes: “ Relics of the Anthropocene & imagined futures” Saturday 9 September and Sunday 10 September (Heritage Open Day)2-4 FREE (drop-in) Lucy Jane MacAllister Dukes has just been UAL Art for the Environment artist in residence at GroundWork Gallery for this summer This is a vey informal set-up. Lucy will […]
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Re-sewing studio: Wednesday afternoons starts again in March 2024
Join us on Wednesday afternoons for our friendly re-sew drop in workshops. Mend and re-purpose your old clothes and textiles. No experience necessary
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Practice 3D Printing with Kaitlin Ferguson
Join Kaitlin Ferguson on 23rd September for an enjoyable workshop around our kitchen table learning to make 3D printed items from waste and biomaterials like coffee and chalk
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Ask-Art About Waste – meet the artists
We had a lively afternoon-evening on 29 June to talk to our artists about how waste can be a positive inspiration for art
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Things in this world: a walking workshop with Kai Lossgott for Norfolk & Norwich Festival: Postponed Autumn 2023
Join an extraordinary waste walk with Kai Lossgott and try out his toolkit for the ecological imagination. Part of the Norfolk & Norwich Festival. Suitable for families.
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Mystical Mycelium with Rain Wu: a making workshop for Norfolk & Norwich Festival
Mystical Mycelium with Rain Wu. A hands-on workshop to explore the possibilities of mycelium, then grow your own mycelium planter to take away.
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Life, Debris and Other Stories
Join renowned writer Patricia Mullin to be inspired by the Art of Waste to create your own word compositions
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GroundWork Winter Reflections
GroundWork is now closed for the winter season, reopening March 18th with ‘Waste Not…..’.
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A Deep Water discussion in real life. Wednesday 7 December
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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Learn to make art in virtual reality: a day workshop Tuesday 29 November
Delve into even more extraordinary underwater artistry with VR. Join Karen Eng on 29th November and she will introduce you in just one day to the tools with which you can make your own work of art – which could be your own virtual coral reef
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Deep Water painting workshop with Mary Blue. Tuesday 15 November
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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Deepen your virtual underwater experience with special afternoon VR visits, Fridays 9 & 16 December
Book here for a remarkable VR experience underwater. Through the magic of VR technology Karen Eng will help you to get close up underwater to Colleen Flanigan’s wonderful sculpture Zoe, which is growing its own coral reef off the coast of Mexico.
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Extraction: September events
Join in our final Extraction events. See the exhibition re-display from 2nd September and come to Assembly Online on 29th at 7.30 PM BST
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Meet the artist
Come and join us on Saturday to meet Sara Grisewood, artist in residence from University of the Arts, London, while her work is still in progress
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Landscape Imaginary: Daniel and Clara. Friday 5 August
Join us for a free evening of films and talks about East coast landscapes with artist duo Daniel and Clara
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Slow Art Day
Slow Art Day is an international event in museums and galleries everywhere. As the name suggests, it is all about slowing down. Slow looking. But also for us it is about slow making. Making work together, learning new skills. Sitting together and chatting as we do so. Join us Saturday 2 April from 12-4 – […]
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Wording the Edgelands. Tuesday 14 June
An eco-poetry workshop led by kin’d and kin’d Tuesday 14 June 11-5 Wording the Edgelands was kin’d and kind’s eco-poetry writing workshop. In two different ways: ‘meet and merge’, it explored the themes of the FieldWork exhibition. Say kin’d and kin’d: ‘Through traditional and wilded poetic forms we will trace the edge-lands between rural and […]
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Edgelands Exploring Urban Landscapes from London to King’s Lynn. Sunday 22 May
Book via Norfolk and Norwich Festival for John Rogers’ exploration in words and walking of the edgelands in London and King’s Lynn
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The Artistic Forager: talks and walks with haptic/tacit. Sunday 15 May
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.
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Sangata Norfolk: 2-4 October
Very sadly we are having to cancel this event as one of the musicians did not receive his UK visa in time in spite of having applied months in advance. Read on to see what you are missing. We will try to reschedule next year.
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GroundWork Dialogues Symposium: 28 February – 4 March 2022 (on-site and on-line)
Join our global discussion both live and on-line focusing on collaborative thinking about what sustainability means now. Five days of talks and workshops with 40 invited guests
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An Eco-poetry Workshop by kin’d & kin’d
Composite eco-poet kin’d & kin’d held an inspiring day exploring what eco-poetry means.
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Nature’s Mysterious Networks: join the openings
You can still join the opening! Assembly Online’s event on 28 October featured all the artists talking and you can still link to it on YouTube via our event page.
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Culture Declares Emergency: Extraction and the Edge
Extraction is the practice of taking resources and minerals out of the earth. Join us on 30 September for The Offer, an on-line event to hear all about artist’s involvement with this important environmental issue
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Rider Spoke King’s Lynn
Coming to King’s Lynn from the Norfolk and Norwich Festival, Oct 8-17: Rider Spoke invites you on a ride in search of the perfect place to hide a secret. Book this unmissable event here….
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Water, art, wisdom and power
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 Power of Water
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.
The Purity of Water
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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The Art of Rice, Thursday 15 April at 6pm BST
If you missed this series of fascinating talks hosted by SISJAC as part of their Third Thursday lecture series, or want to see it again,follow this link for the recording
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Japan Water Assembly Online preview
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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A Norfolk Coast Biodiversity Poetry ‘Retreat’
Join Karen Frances Eng in an on-line weekend poetry workshop from 19-21 March, all about 5 key species at risk on the Norfolk coast. Select results will be published in the Norfolk Coast Guardian
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The Art and Science of Bugs
Join us on-line on World Wildlife Day, March 3rd to discuss bugs. They are vulnerable globally – 40% are in decline. Both science and art offer us new ways to see them. This event considers how, through better understanding, we improve their, and our, future. Click for details.
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Visit our on-line shop
Visit our shop to find some wonderful objects, jewels, and books by artists. Most of them are exclusive to us, or at least very bespoke. There are limited editions. Some things are sparkly. Above all, they are ethical and what more can you ask of a gift? Especially one from the only art gallery dedicated to the environment.
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Place in Time
If you missed Place in Time, our virtual discussion event for International Landscape Day on 20th October, follow this link to the event page and you can see a recording of the event
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Doorstep Environment Poetry
Happening NOW! Karen Eng is leading a writing residency for this end-November week, focusing on the environment. Eight stunning writers are refining a piece of writing and discussing together each day. Watch this space for the outcomes….
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Writing from close observation
Spend Tuesday 3 November in the calm atmosphere of the gallery, refining your writing with acclaimed author and artist Patricia Mullin. Safely confined to just 5 participants you will get lots of attention and inspiration.
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Follow an environmental trail for King’s Lynn
Come and follow this exciting challenge activity for families, individuals, children to explore the town’s environment
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Find your local bugs
Find your local bugs and join us in this big bug-hunting exercise. Buglife, the international invertebrate conservation trust has compiled a list of bugs you can find in your own garden. Most of them are common, but some might take a bit of spotting. Go equipped with a magnifying glass perhaps. Take a notepad and […]
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No Insectstinction Study Day: understanding and practical action – cancelled
Sunday 5 April, 2-5 – cancelled At GroundWork Gallery, a joint event with Buglife How can we recognise the most endangered species of bugs? What can anyone do to protect insects and avoid their extinction? What is the role of art in understanding our relationships with insects? What are the B-Lines, where are they around […]
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Pop-up events by King’s Lynn Festival, 2017 & 2018
King’s Lynn Festival, July 15-28 2018 Pop-up taster concert, a collaboration with King’s Lynn Festival of arts and music, July 2018 Cellist in residence, Marcin Zdunik gave a wonderful lunch-time half-hour of cello music as a pop-up event in the gallery. King’s Lynn Festival pop up concert, 2017 The exhibition Bird after Bird formed a […]
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What Language Do You Speak? A film by Elisa Bracher
Thursday March 14, 2019, 4 – 6. Shot in Brazil and England, the film addresses the great migratory movement in the world today, with millions of people fleeing from wars, natural disasters or social circumstances that hinder their survival. Facing many risks to reach the places they think are habitable, or even where they have […]
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Edges and Frontiers: talks with artists
Sunday 1st December 2 – 6. Come and join an informal study afternoon and discussion with artists,including Alison Counsell, Adam King. Madeleine Spencer, Antonia Beard, GordonSenior, Jayne Ivimey, all exhibitors in On the Edge. We will tour the exhibition together and talk about the ‘edge’ issues which occur in each work. And Marc AtkinsonWe will […]
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Creative Remaking: Sewing to help the environment: cancelled
Saturday April 18: 2.00-4.00pm – cancelled Saturday April 18th – 2-4Drop in for idea and skill-sharing, Sit around the table and stitch An ongoing programme of informal drop-in workshops. Facilitated by Lesley Wright Some basic materials will be provided, but bring your own favourite stitching tools. A £5 donation towards refreshments and overheads would be […]
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Write for the environment – cancelled
10 May 2020 A writing workshop with Karen Eng for Norfolk and Norwich Festival Norfolk and Norwich Festival is cancelled for 2020. This event is cancelled too, but will be postponed until later in the summer Would you like to explore your relationship with the environment in words? Come join one of Karen Eng’s all-day […]
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Pivotal: Jeni Smith & Alice Finbow
Pivotal – art, writing, environment | ways to collaborate, Saturday 25 November 2017 This workshop, run by mother and daughter Jeni Smith and Alice Finbow, was the starting point for collaborative conversations and ways to generate ideas between and across visual and text-based media. People who attended were not necessarily working already in a collaborative process, […]
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Environment and Memory: Emilie Dufresne
Environment and Memory, Saturday 10th November, 2018 A poetry workshop with Emilie Dufresne We held a psychogeography poetry workshop asking people to consider memory of place and experience of place over time. The workshop included walks around the town, inviting participants to experience their environment blind, and then later in the workshop try and retrace […]
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A Journey through Water: Patricia Mullin
Previous writing workshops A Journey Through Water | Exploring poetic geography, Monday 20 May 2019 A creative writing masterclass with Patricia Mullin Working over a day with exclusive use of the gallery and guided by expert published writer and artist, Patricia Mullin, participants were encouraged to develop a beautiful piece of writing. And then they […]
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We wrote on the edge
In the last days of 2019, GroundWork invited writers to come to the edge. Seven gathered, retreating from the chaos and consumption of the days before Christmas, choosing instead to go within and consider what we could create – inspired by the interplay between art and words in the serene December light reflected from the […]
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Theories of the Earth Study Day
Theories of the Earth, 30 November 2018 Interactions between history, science and artistic practice What are theories of the earth? What do all the terms mean? Is theory useful? What is relationship between theory and practice? A number of experts involved in disciplines relevant to Theories of the Earth – art, science and environment – […]
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Writing and publishing: supporting off-line literary culture in the Digital Age
Wednesday 20 November 2019 The wonderful off-line publishing house Analog Sea, based in Freiburg, Germany and Texas, USA, and whose books we stock in the gallery, is coming on tour and their founding editor Jonathan Simons will make a special guest appearance on the early evening of Wednesday 20th November to talk about their work.This […]
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Water Rising – art innovation, change and development.
May 17 2019 Held at Thoresby College, Queen St, PE30 1HX, May 17, 2019, 10.30 – 6.00 Water Rising community engagement events were supported by Anglian Water’s Keep It Clear Campaign. Water Rising – art innovation change and development. Programme Globally and locally we face a changing relationship with water. We know that sea level […]
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Write on the edge: Karen Eng
Write on the edgeSunday 15 December, 2019 10-4 This was a one day’s writing retreat at GroundWork Gallery with Karen Eng. We enjoyed the final moments of the exhibition ‘On the Edge’. Taking initial inspiration from the exhibition, Karen took us on a journey from idea to realisation, considering some of the innovative ways our […]
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The Art of Climate Change
28 October 2018 Fire and Ice: The Art of Climate Change. Conference Saturday October 28. 3-6pm. Increasingly we live in a world which has to cope with changing weather patterns, environmental shocks and disasters. Whatever the causes, and wherever the effects are felt, our responses and solutions need to be practical ones if human society […]
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Bird After Bird events
Here are listed the events which took place during and around the Bird After Bird exhibition 15 July – 11 September 2017 Accompanying the show at GroundWork was a taster concert for King’s Lynn Festival: On Friday 21 July 2017 Annabel Knight played the flute in the gallery for a taster concert for King’s Lynn […]
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Art and Politics of Trash: Emilie Dufresne
Saturday 28 April 2018, 2.00 – 6.00 pm Followed by showing of the award-winning film Trashed, 6.30 – 8.30 pm The Spring season 2018 featured an exciting variety of events. A study day on the Art and Politics of Waste; Readings and courses on The Poetry of Waste; A special showing of Trashed, a film […]
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Come onto our doorstep environment?
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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Regarding Nature
Events 23 June – 16 September 2018 The events and conference programme for Regarding Nature, 23 June – 16 September 2018, was supported by a grant from the British Ecological Society Regarding Nature – Our Changing Coastline Thursday 30 August, 1.30 – 3.00 Talk and discussion: Julian Andrews, Professor of Environmental Science […]
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