Exhibition

In Steps of Sundew

25 Jul 2020 – 15 Jan 2021

Regular hours

Monday
10:00 – 16:00
Tuesday
10:00 – 16:00
Wednesday
10:00 – 16:00
Thursday
10:00 – 16:00
Friday
10:00 – 16:00
Saturday
10:00 – 16:00
Sunday
10:00 – 16:00

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The Arches

Corby
England, United Kingdom

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A new group exhibition focussing on our experience of landscape, exploring the push and pull between nature and human presence and the effect that extracting resources from the landscape has upon those living within it.

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Now open again under Tier 2 rules.

IN STEPS OF SUNDEW

Ikran Abdille
Tom Baskeyfield
Sarah Gillett
Ellie Harrison
Liz Lake
Onya McCausland

10am – 4pm

Sundew was the name of the largest walking dragline excavator in the world, used in mining operations in Rutland and Northamptonshire between 1957 and 1980. In 1974 plans were devised to relocate the machine to a recently opened British Steel Corporation quarry near Corby. As moving and reconstructing the machine was not viable, Sundew walked 13 miles over an eight-week period. During the walk Sundew carried the message on her rear of “EXCUSE ME, I’m walking to Corby”, crossing three water mains, four watercourses, 13 power lines, ten roads, a railway line, two gas mains, seven telephone lines, 74 hedges, and the River Welland before reaching its new home.

Sundews are also species of carnivorous plants, which digest insects through the glands on their leaves in order to supplement the poor mineral nutrition of the soil in which they grow.

In Steps of Sundew retraces the movement of people and resources from the landscape as well as the dragline excavator’s Great Walk, posing questions about the relationship between the natural and the industrial and how these might coexist whilst avoiding climate breakdown.

Exhibiting artistsToggle

Tom Baskeyfield

Ikran Abdille

Sarah Gillett

Ellie Harrison

Ellie Harrison

Onya McCausland

Liz Lake

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