A quick update on upcoming exhibitions and events evolving from my explorations of dynamics playing out below ground and their resonances.
Winter wheat roots, Suffolk, May 2026. Annabel Howland/Jen McGaley
26 August – 4 September 2026
Grond (Ground) group exhibition at CBK Zeeland, Middelburg, Zeeland (NL). Work resulting from the CBK’s summer residency programme Zomerateliers. For more information see www.cbkzeeland.nl.
13 August 2026
My short film Subterranean Weather & Arbuscular Time (2026) will be screened at Trame di Luna 2026 festival in Filignano, Italy. For more information see https://www.instagram.com/trame_diluna/
12 – 13 September 2026
Subterranean Weather & Arbuscular Time (2026) will also screen at Cinema Wilhelmina, Pakhuis Wilhelmina Biënnale, Veemkade 572, Amsterdam. For more information see www.pakhuiswilhelmina.nl/info.
3 October – 1 November 2026
My site-specific installation, Branching Beneath the Fields opens at Abbot’s Hall Conservatory at The Food Museum, Stowmarket, Suffolk, (UK) on Saturday 3 October and runs to 1 November. There is a Fungi Discovery Day of workshops and presentations with Jen McGaley (Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge) on Saturday 24 October. For more information see www.foodmuseum.org.uk.
I’m privileged to enjoy the support of a great number of collaborators in this work. I’d like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to a few:
Dan Lockton and the Institute for Sustainable Worlds, Norwich University of the Arts, where I am an affiliated researcher; Jen McGaley (Crop Science Centre, University of Cambridge); Vasilis Kokkoris and the Kokkoris Lab (Amsterdam Institute for Life and Environment– A-LIFE, VU Amsterdam) especially Bianca Turca; Justin Stewart (Society for the Protection of Underground Networks – SPUN); TextielLab, the TextielMuseum Tilburg’s professional workshop, especially Eerika and Elian; and the many farmers across East Anglia who have so generously allowed me to look inside their crops’ roots and shared their knowledge and experiences with me. More on this later.
TextielLab, TextielMuseum Tilburg (Netherlands), June-August 2026
I’ve been having a ball making new sculptures this summer with the TextielLab, the TextielMuseum’s professional workshop in Tilburg. This is a long-held dream and I’ve thoroughly enjoyed evolving new works with Eerika and Elian in the knitting and passementerie departments. More on the results later.
Abbot’s Hall Conservatory, The Food Museum, Stowmarket, Suffolk, UK