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The image is a view of Snettisham Carrstone quarry taken by Norfolk Geodiversity Partnership.
Exhibition
Extraction: Art at the Edge of the Abyss
14 Aug 2021 – 2 Oct 2021
Regular hours
- Saturday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Tuesday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Wednesday
- 10:00 – 16:00
- Thursday
- 11:00 – 16:00
- Friday
- 11:00 – 16:00
Address
- 17 Purfleet Street
- Kings Lynn
England - PE30 1ER
- United Kingdom
Travel Information
- Buses every 30 minutes from Norwich and Peterborough; also Coasthopper buses to beautiful north coast
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- Regular hourly trains from London Kings Cross and Cambridge. Journey time from London under 2 hours.
On-going throughout the summer at GroundWork Gallery are artistic projects which highlight the incredible strains on the environment caused by extraction. The practice of taking resources out of the earth has become one of the biggest problems of the modern world.
About
Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss
Residencies, projects and exhibition
14 August – 2 October 2021
Open ONLY each Saturday from 14 August-18 September, 11-4
On exhibition throughout: works by Darren Almond, Andres Chang.
Artists in residence: Kaitlin Ferguson, 9-22 August; Shaun Fraser, 23 Aug – 5 September; Rebecca Faulkner: University of the Arts, London, Art for the Environment Residency: 6-19 September.
Final exhibition: 20 September – 2 October. All the results of the residency projects will be on display throughout the building.
Just for these final 2 weeks we are open every day, Monday to Sunday: 11-4.
Extraction: the context
On-going throughout the summer at GroundWork Gallery are artistic projects which highlight the incredible strains on the environment caused by extraction. The practice of taking resources out of the earth has become one of the biggest problems of the modern world. Everything we live in, walk on and touch daily is somehow extracted from the earth.
The built environment is made from stone extraction; oil, gas, coal for transport and industry comes from drilling, mining and fracking; a whole cocktail of extracted minerals are used in electronics. Mobile phones alone contain copper, nickel, lithium, tungsten, cobalt, tellurium and manganese. The scale of natural resource extraction, even for the so-called environmental technologies like wind turbines and electric cars, is staggering and imposing incredible and increasing stress on the earth.
Art on the Edge of the Abyss
This programme is part of Extraction: Art on the Edge of the Abyss, a United States-based initiative begun in Montana. It is now a global coalition, a multimedia, multi-venue, cross-border art intervention which seeks to provoke societal change by exposing and interrogating the negative social and environmental consequences of industrialised natural resource extraction.
Their aim is to ‘cause a ruckus’ – and we are joining in with them. Join us by coming on Saturdays to the gallery to talk about what we can all do to help – it starts with talking. And then visit the end of summer residency exhibition to talk and plan some more with us.
