Out of the Wood Exhibition GroundWork Gallery King’s Lynn
Tim Simmons Olympic Peninsula

Out of the Wood

Works by Dominic Ash, Lorraine Bewick, Lee Grandjean, Doo Gurney, Ian Tyson, Calum McClure, Tim Plunkett, Tim Simmons and Par Avion

Exhibition:
5 November-17 December 2016

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

Free entry

The new exhibition at King’s Lynn’s GroundWork Gallery celebrates trees, forests and the art of wood.

Out of the Wood includes a range of work from the lyrical to the practical. Its aim is to raise awareness of the beauty and usefulness of wood and trees in our lives, showing a variety of ways in which woods, forests and trees inspire images and stories, and equally can provide a precise and versatile creative medium.

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Lee Grandjean Prince and Madame

There is work included by artists who have made atmospheric painted and photographic images in forests, as well as those who carve out of the wood, sculpting, modelling, shaping and turning timber into artefacts. It is introduced by a piece of petrified oak from the Jurassic period, some 140 million years old, a testament to the durability of material and its deep and ancient history against which our current concerns appear fragile and transitory.

Photographer Tim Simmons’s dramatic images of Norfolk and American woodland shows the strange beauty of dense woods and their undergrowth. Lee Grandjean, formerly deputy head of sculpture at the Royal College of Art, has made roots and branches into surreal assemblages, their titles hinting at deeper stories in the imagination. Calum McClure, from Glasgow Print Studio has made paintings and prints full of the colour and atmosphere of woodlands, and Lorraine Bewick will show paintings of trees in her Norfolk orchard.

Wood also provides a precise and versatile creative medium for artists and designers. Ian Tyson is showing a collection of abstract formal reliefs and sculptures exploring the properties of various hardwoods. Doo Gurney, a Woodland Trust selected artist has made woodcuts and engravings based on the gnarled patterns of bark and tree rings. Tim Plunkett, an environmentalist and wood-turner who only uses native hardwoods will show a range of bowls.

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Calum Mcclure Path Mellerstain

Dominic Ash and Par Avion, both domestic and exhibition furniture designers, will show exquisite salt and pepper table sets made from oak, ash and bog oak.

The exhibition offers another chance to see internationally renowned artist Richard Long’s Great Ouse Mud Drawing, made in situ for GroundWork Gallery’s opening exhibition ‘Sunlight and Gravity’.

“GroundWork’s mission is to celebrate the environment so Long’s work made from the earth will become its appropriate signature piece. Many people have said how much like a tree it looks, so for the next show it will be a good talking point” says gallery director Veronica Sekules.

The town of King’s Lynn, has a long history as a trading port and still is a major importer of Baltic timber to the UK, extensively used in building.

GroundWork also invite visitors to view the Penthouse apartment, designed by Hudson Architects and built by Norfolk Building Co. A bark cloth from Tonga hangs in the stairwell. The apartment is available to book as a short-term let for people who want to spend a few days exploring King’s Lynn and west Norfolk.

GroundWork Gallery will work throughout the next year as the Woodland Trust’s charter champion for King’s Lynn, the campaign aiming to culminate in a new charter for Trees, Woods and People in November 2017. woodlandtrust.org.uk

GroundWork Gallery

17 Purfleet Street King’s Lynn PE301ER Norfolk

Director: Veronica Sekules

For more information and enquiries call 07736336461 or email to [email protected]

@groundworkkl

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