About this Event
The Ground Up Conference: Friday 15 – Saturday 16 November
This is a two day conference to talk about extraction, land, environment. Informed by a summer of artists in residents working with many local places and partners, we aim to discuss the collaborations and sharing of expertise which informed each project .
What have artists a) learned, b) discovered and c) revealed?
What are the implications in terms of their work and its impact?
Each artist will briefly present their work and then we will open discussion with partners and respondents from contingent fields of expertise.
What emerges in terms of increase in knowledge, sensibility or environmental campaigning?
What, if anything is anything emerging that we can discuss anew?
Are we in danger of stereotyping what is good or bad practice, what is ‘natural’, what is ‘industrial’?
How do we take next steps, and with whom?
Join us to discuss the themes which have emerged via recent residency projects and collaborations.
Programme OutlineThere are 4 themed programme sessions over 2 days.
Each will consist of 4-5 artists talking about the work they developed,
There will be discussion with the other expert partners.
And there will be plenty of opportunity for discussion open to all the participants.
James Aldridge (artist); Lucy Dukes (artist); Sam Hodge (artist); Caroline Chouler Tissier (artist); Kelly Hill (photographer)*; Tim Fisher (NRT); Jonah Tosney (NRT); Sam Hodge (artist); Sophy King (artist); Amanda Wallwork (artist) Tim Holt Wilson (geologist); Tamlin Lundberg (ceramicist and forest school teacher); Sara Trillo (artist); Lizzie Kimbley (artist) Charlie Gardner (environmentalist); Lydia Halcrow (artist); Nicola Streeten (comic novelist); Julia Giles (artist); Katrin Spranger (artist); Nick Acheson (naturalist) Jan-Micha Gamer (artist); Victoria Lucas (artist); Sarah Horlock (ceramicist and archaeologist); Rachel Wright (photographer); Liz Hide (Sedgwick Museum)
*cover image for this event, 'A Norfolk Quarry '- by Kelly Hill Photogaphy
Day 1
Session 1
Rivers, banks and moist environments – care and contamination
Focus on protecting and maintaining the diversity of riverine environments
Session 2
Quarry treasures – minerals, fossils
Focus on artistic and geological discoveries during stone and aggregate quarrying
Day 2
Session 3
Above and below ground:
Focus on- nature, observation, protected and nurtured land – above and beneath the surface
Session 4
Contaminated land -connections between nature and industry
Is it all bad? Focus on extractive, tainted and polluted landscapes, or features, & industries
Find further information about the programme and speakers https://www.groundworkgallery.com/events/the-ground-up-conference/
About Thoresby College
Originally named Trinity College, this building was the creation of Thomas Thoresby, burgess, merchant and three times Mayor of the Borough of King's Lynn. Building started in about 1508 and was still in progress when he died in 1510. He left money in his will for its completion and it fell to his executors to see that his intentions were met. He intended it to be a residential college for 13 chantry priests. It has been much altered since, serving at one time as a youth hostel. In 1963 the entire complex was bought by Ruth, Lady Fermoy and her daughter, Viscountess Althorpe (later, Mrs Shand-Kydd) and presented to the King’s Lynn Preservation Trust for restoration, with the request that the building be used for the benefit of the whole community. It is now partly divided into apartments but the Great and lesser halls can be hired as a venue. The conference will be held in the Great Hall, which retains its late medieval roof.
Read more here: https://www.klprestrust.org.uk/great-hall/
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Thoresby College, Queen Street, King's Lynn, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 40.00
