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On the Fabric of Life

'A Growing Plot', Andrew Carnie, PLA, Polylactic Acid 2025
'A Growing Plot', Andrew Carnie, PLA, Polylactic Acid 2025

at the Lambotte Museum

Heilige Geeststraat 21

Antwerp

Adjacent to the Museum Plantin-Moretus and the Vrijdagmarkt, in the historic centre of Antwerp

 

Vernissage: Saturday 9 May 2026,

Finissage: 15 August 2026

 


The overarching theme is Caritas. Traditionally translated as charity, Caritas carries a far broader meaning: a deep, active love for humanity; compassion rooted in responsibility; care that binds knowledge, medicine, art, and ethics. It speaks not only of giving, but of attention, dignity, and the commitment to stand with one another—body, mind, and spirit.


exhibiting, 'A Growing Plot', Andrew Carnie, PLA, Polylactic Acid 2025

 

The work 'A Growing Plot' is one of a number of works completed in 2025 that, for me, address concerns about our environment and our link to it. Increasingly, contemporary science puts us not as separate from the environment but completely embroiled in it, not above it; we can no longer see ourselves as separate from it, nature subservient to us.

 

I see this work as giving respect to the plant that is surrounded by the body system that surrounds it, a realisation, that the plant world, the complex world of nature, the bacteria and mycelium around us are central to our existence, and that at the least we need to give charity, care to the natural world, it is in us part of us.

 

There is more bacterial DNA in us than human DNA; we need the proteins that these bacteria produce. We cannot make these vitally important proteins any other way. We refresh our gut microbiome through time spent in nature, handling soil, and the breath we inhale in the natural world.

 

We have to give the environment much, much more than charity. Our existence depends on it.



 

See more work at: www.andrewcarnie.uk


Andrew Carnie is an artist and academic at Winchester School of Art, Southampton University. His practice often involves a meaningful interaction with scientists. He is part of the Critical Practices Research team, where his interests lie in exploring the self through the lens of hybridity, as well as in organ transplantation and immunology. Other themes and ideas are often based on neurology, the brain, and how we get a sense of ourselves through scientific ideas and images. The work is often time-based, employing slide-dissolve systems or video projection onto complex screens. In darkened spaces, layered images appear and disappear on suspended voiles, the developing display absorbing the viewer into an expanded sense of space and time through slowly unfolding narratives that evolve around them. His work has been exhibited at the Science Museum, London, Natural History Museum, Rotterdam, Design Museum, Zurich, Exit Art, in New York, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Great North Museum, Newcastle, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Dresden Hygiene Museum, Morevska Gallery, Brno, and the Daejeon Museum of Art, South Korea amongst many others, most recently the Hatton Gallery and Vane, Newcastle.


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See more work at the website: http://www.tram.ndo.co.uk/artworks.htm 




Current exhibitions and projects: http://andrewcarnieexhibtionsandstuff.blogspot.com/ 


All images: courtesy of the artist Andrew Carnie   


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