Groundwork Gallery

Eight women artists on sea water pollution and the dangers to the ocean

Curated by Veronica Sekules, Deep Water brings together works by eight women who are passionately concerned with the issues they represent. All have specialist knowledge of eco-systems, of species and of deep local and indigenous experience. They are drawing attention to the dangers and the degradation - but having an overriding impulse to inspire concern and to repair.

”Zena Holloway’s bio-design-art project ‘Rootfull’ is an innovative method of growing wheatgrass in beeswax to make extraordinary tangled lace-shapes. Based on her own observations of the way tangled roots were flowing naturally underwater, it is giving her scope to develop a whole visual language with which she can reflect simultaneously on the under-sea and land-based worlds and innovate in a new sustainable medium.

For Deep Water she is showing a number of sculptural panels and wearables which relate to sea pollution. The natural pale colour of wheat-grass root is especially resonant in evoking the pallor of bleached coral, and bears a striking resemblance to it also in its method of growth. They are related both biologically and symbolically. Zena’s work brings together many worlds of art and design, of science, of horticulture and of fashion.” Veronica Sekules

Deep Water, open from 15th October - 17th December 2022