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EXTRACTION:
Art on the Edge of the Abyss.

EXTRACTION: Art on the Edge of the Abyss is a multi-media, multi-venue art initiative which originated the United States. Involving over 50 organisations and hundreds of artists, it is raising awareness of the huge environmental problems extractive industries are causing. It began in 2019 in Montana, home to many massive oil drills which have scarred the earth. It aims to provoke societal change and ‘raise a ruckus’.GroundWork Gallery and Sprygg are coordinating the UK branch of this project.

The whole world – Industry, governments, consumers and workers – has become dependent on fuelling our lives with extracted materials.
And the environment is suffering

What is extraction? It is about what humans dig out from the earth. All over the planet we dig, we mine, we drill for precious natural resources, for transport, for communications, for heating, for household convenience. Increased demand for ever more complex technologies has accelerated it – there are 8 extracted minerals in mobile phones alone. Further damage is caused by our thoughtless over-consumption and waste. Many of these resources are irreplaceable. Their extraction causes pollution. Extractive industries are fed by greed more than need.

Art on the Edge of the Abyss

Through our Extraction programmes, the work of artists help us to discover more about the dangers to the earth, the pressures on environment and employment, the conflicts with industry and governments.

Here you will find connections and communications between artists, technologists and communities which will help us to think more deeply and act with greater concern about Extraction.

Art is on the edge of the Abyss

GroundWork Gallery Extraction Art on the Edge of the Abyss artist residency and exhibiting programme will run from August 15 -October 3 2021 and again from August – October 2022

Participating Artists

(We Are) Shaped by Stone

Tom Baskeyfield

Whether it be the streets of a post-industrial northern town, or the rooftops of industry and domesticity, the evidence of extraction is all around us. Here I’m talking specifically of stone; this stuff of Earth, the body of Earth, formed over millennia; the ubiquitous foundation to our surroundings, and consciously or unconsciously, our sense of place, our sense of home.

Fire and Stone

Ann Rutherford

A series of drawn studies of the quarries around Settle and the men who worked in them. Their craft still visible today in the impressive fireplaces of The Folly, Settle.

Crumbling Assets

Simon Read

In November 2005, Peter Boggis was forbidden to continue piling up a sacrificial rubble and soil cliff in front of his rapidly diminishing property at Easton Bavents to the north of Southwold in Suffolk.

The tonic of wilderness

Amy Murrell

Rolling downs, craggy white cliffs, vast stretches of coastline, undulating sand dunes and miles of well trodden chalk paths. The Sussex landscape inspires me to look for colours, textures, shapes and forms to translate into my work.

- Air

Marina Vitaglione

Air is intrinsic to life–yet fine particle pollution is now the biggest environmental risk of early death worldwide, killing 7 million people a year.

Beauty in the overlooked

Amy Leigh Bird

“The things we truly love, the things forming the basis and roots of our being, are generally things we never look at.”

land art.

Land Art Agency was founded as a response to the climate emergency. We are reimagining the role of the photographer in the industry in order to explore where and how they can shape, transform and create green thinking.

Making connections

Chris Drury

I am an environmental artist, making site-specific nature-based sculpture, often referred to as Land Art or Art in Nature. I also work in art and Science. I make installations inside and make works on paper, works with maps, digital and video art, and works with mushrooms.

Silt

Karen Frances Eng

I make art that straddles analog and digital media. I’m fascinated by all kinds of art-making technologies, and my practice has taken me from traditional letterpress printing to still and moving lens-based work to large-scale animated projections on medieval buildings.

Earthscars

Jeannette Unite

I focus on Africa’s rich and contentious mineral histories and the ways humans exploit Earth, since living on African west coast alluvial diamond mines in the 1990s. my artistic, archival and on-the-ground research addresses the question of why Earth matters and the relationship humans have with minerals and Earth historically.

Turning Landscape

Onya McCausland

Turning Landscape is the title of a body of research that examines the recycling of waste materials that have formed and built up in the landscape as a result of the end of coal mining and examines their use as pigment for paint.

SEEING COAL

Andrea Krupp

Exhibition held at the Library Company of Philadelphia from May 3 to August 28, 2021. Curated by Andrea Krupp, Library Company Conservator and visual artist.

If you have a project for SpryggStream, just pop your email in the box and we’ll be back to you to discuss.

where artists, technologists and communities gather to inspire Acts of Genius

Sprygg is a Gildedsplinters project
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where artists, technologists and communities gather to inspire Acts of Genius

© 2020 Gildedsplinters All rights reserved

where artists, technologists and communities gather to inspire Acts of Genius

Sprygg is a Gildedsplinters project
© 2020 Gildedsplinters All rights reserved