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The Arborealists at Staverton Park


'The Thick Of It' Andrew Carnie PLA February 2026
'The Thick Of It' Andrew Carnie PLA February 2026


Wednesday 4 March – Sunday 3 May 2026

10.00 am - 4.00 pm


The Minories Gallery

74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE

Colchester



Privately owned Staverton Park, of 240 acres and near Woodbridge in Suffolk, is one of the largest areas of ancient, pollarded oak trees in Europe. Of Saxon origin, the park is one of a handful of British medieval parks to have a continuous history from its establishment to the present. It is home to some rare and special fauna and flora, and was one of the very first Sites of Special Scientific Interest to be established.


Environmental campaigners believe that most people feel disconnected from nature and that there is no simple solution to this problem. We have become divorced from our primordial roots and from our once instinctive reliance on the life cycles of our native flora and fauna. Many of us do not see ourselves as part of nature, and so we do not understand or even care that we depend on the health of the natural world for our survival. It is recognised that doom-and-gloom reports of wildlife extinction and the destruction of vital environments can have the opposite effect to that intended. We readily accept a depleted state of nature as a baseline that continues to creep; biodiversity is slipping away without being noticed. We refuse to accept or digest the evidence, and we bury our heads in the sand.


There is a consensus, however, that fostering some kind of personal connection to nature is vital in order to awaken and mobilise a largely urban population, and that this could include spirituality and the arts as well as science. This exhibition will draw directly on this premise. The Arborealists will visit Staverton Park in different seasons and make new work especially for this exhibition over 2 years from the Autumn of 2023. The exhibition will be staged in partnership with the Suffolk Coasts & Heaths Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty.




 

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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