Spring Summer Season - Back to Earth

copyright: Tom Martin

Back to Earth, Coreset’s Spring 2025 programme, is filled with exhibitions and events that bring together creative responses and research from artists offering their insights into concerns, ideas and hopes for the future.  The exhibitions and events will engage our senses, reminding us that human behaviour is the impetus for and the major contributor to climate change. 

Press Release

4 February 2025

Back to Earth, Coreset’s Spring 2025 programme, is filled with exhibitions and events that bring together creative responses and research from artists offering their insights into concerns, ideas and hopes for the future.  The exhibitions and events will engage our senses, reminding us that human behaviour is the impetus for and the major contributor to climate change. 

The season opens on 3rd March with the presentation of Aproximity, an exhibition recently shown in London, highlighting the inextricable links that bind the human and non-human to the land they live on. Annie Morrad offers moving sonic and image collaborations with non-human species, as Fiona Carruthers explores sustainability and survival through intricate sculptural forms and abstract images, and David Carruthers draws our attention to the fragility of the human condition by marking the passage of time.

From 28th April we present a photographic exhibition, Forming Threads, supported by The British Council revealing the skills and creativity of Miao makers in Xuzhou & Guizhou China.  Rooted in the lives of artisans the exhibition reveals the skills and traditional practices of the rural Miao communities. Through this exhibition and cross-cultural collaboration, we begin to consider different ways to minimise the environmental footprint of production and consumption.

The season concludes with Drift, an exhibition of works from fine artist Daniel Rapley, encouraging us to think about the culture of disposability and the abundance of images flooding the world by appropriating and repurposing technological waste. Parallels between media and memory are exposed, as each is subject to rapid obsolescence. The disorientating topographies of Drift are reflective of a world collapsing under the weight of human consumption.

During these exhibitions Coreset will host gatherings, conversations and readings to seek new ways of thinking and acting to enable emotional and sympathetic responses to our constantly evolving environment. 

Back to Earth Artists: Annie Morrad, Fiona Carruthers, David Carruthers, Andrew Blackwood, Dave Bramston, Xiao Xiao and Daniel Rapley.