Group Exhibition

Artists: David Barron, Annie Berriman, Caroline Burgess, Lucy Crouch, Laura Fox, Peter Gates, Sandra Partington, Jenny Purrett, Joanna Rucklidge, Fran Woolf

Open: 13-16 July 2023, 12:00-18:00

Private View: 13 July, 18:00-20:00

Nature as Witness is a collective of ten artists from across the UK and Ireland who came together as a group in 2022 during a six-week program run by @drawing_correspondence. We use drawing to explore our relationship with nature and nature’s relationship with us. We celebrate nature’s beauty, but also reflect on what we can learn from it and how we are despoiling it. In many of our works, nature isn’t just the subject, it is a collaborator. Air, earth, fire and water—the elemental constituents of the Universe—leave their trace in the works on show. Drawing is a way of dissolving the distinction between the artist and their subject: nature is our witness.

The exhibition comprises drawings by the individuals in the collective, using a wide range of media, some traditional, some less so. The largest work in the show is a 7m long collaborative drawing of a tree canopy made in Northumberland woodland using feathers, sticks, ink, and rain. It perfectly exemplifies the group’s approach to drawing Nature as Witness.

Image credit Lucy Crouch, type credit Joanna Rucklidge

More info visit: natureaswitness.cargo.site