(Cover Image: Roger Coulam, ‘Seaburn Steps’, 2019, from a series of photographs of storms at sea around NE English coastal lighthouses) Addressing climate change is our biggest challenge. Discover here how we are seeking interdisciplinary approaches with our artists and partners at the centre of new networks. Join with us to share innovative ideas towards […]
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Read here how Ackroyd and Harvey’s project Beuys’ Acorns inspires children to be interested in art and oak trees. Here they have been working with artist Johann Don Daniel as a pilot project at Whitefriars School in King’s Lynn. British artists Ackroyd and Harvey have been doing a wonderful project for years now, called Beuys’ Acorns. […]
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This is a story about the river, art and environmental activism. Norfolk’s chalk rivers became a big theme during our residency programme in summer 2023. As we are opening up a new round of the GroundWork artists residency programme, in 2024, I am looking back to think about some of last year’s results and outcomes […]
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by Veronica Sekules We need to transform our attitudes to waste . It needs to be rehabilitated. Not as an inconvenience, nor as a disgusting embarrassment, nor even as a potentially random commercial resource. Waste needs to be recognised with its potential for longevity and status-change as art and heritage. Categories matter. A shift in […]
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Thinking about the implications of aggregate extraction, concrete production and the impact on coastal change
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ohn Rogers is a writer and film-maker. Author of This Other London- adventures in the overlooked city, he is well known as an original and contemporary explorer, especially of London.
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Discover the beauty and wonder of lichen through artist Annie Woodford’s research project
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Hear about the beginnings of our artistic research into extractive industries, looking at quarry operations in Norfolk
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A huge ‘Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss’ project in the United States is ‘raising a ruckus’ globally to stop environmental damage. It began in the United States in 2018, initiated by the CODEX Foundation in Berkeley California. The late Edwin Dobb and Peter Rutledge Koch started it all. They wanted to rally […]
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Views from art and science on rice farming changes and biodiversity in Japan.
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As part of GroundWork Gallery’s long-term interests in connecting art, science and environmental sustainability, here we discover the distinguished Dutch Professor Marcel Dicke’s thoughts on insects. In conversation with writer and artist Karen Eng, he turns to the subject of bugs as food, and how increasingly he has become interested in their appearance in art.
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GroundWork exhibitions are accompanied by environmental campaigning. We want to alert the world to the dangers faced by insects, But also we need to show what we can do to help. To do so we are collaborating with Buglife, the invertebrate charity
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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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Veronica Sekules A boy brushed a Nettle and was stung by it. His mother told him: “It stung you because you brushed it lightly. Next time grasp it boldly and it will be soft as silk and not hurt you.”A fable attributed to Aesop. The moral? ‘Whatever you do, do it with all your might’. […]
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Moths are vital to our entire ecosytem. Why we should worry about moths? They are declining and in danger. Read on….. Adult moths are important pollinators of flowers, but their larvae, or caterpillars are also an essential part of the food chain for hedgehogs, shrews, frogs, toads and lizards, as well as for spiders and […]
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Sewing, cloth, creative remaking Each season we have been organising practical workshops, artist’s pop-up events, ways to explore making stuff inventively, ethically, environmentally. We are very happy to consider new projects, so please get in touch to discuss any ideas you might have. Sign up to our email list to be the first to know about practical […]
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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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We have initiated a new programme, working together with schools, colleges, community and special interest groups and the gallery, to make connections between art and environment. In an age when our environment is fragile and threatened, we need to pool our creative skills to understand it better – the first stage in improving attitudes and practices. Think […]
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Waste Transformed is a project about making art from trash. Initially we were inspired by Jan Eric Visser’s work for our Trash Art exhibition in 2018 to explore creative reuse of materials. We then went on to investigate plastics and that became a bit of an obsession. This project is an example of how exhibitions […]
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Studies show that trees absorb large amounts of potentially poisonous atmospheric gases from the environment. Trees are the lungs of the earth. They release oxygen into the atmosphere, replacing that which is lost through the burning of fossil fuels. They also filter dust from the air – greatly enhancing the air we breathe in our […]
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