Diary of Offshoot, residency and exhibition can be found at www.chriswright.co.uk/blog or under blog in the navigation bar
Offshoot
Residency and exhibition by Margit Rusert (DE) and Chris Wright (GB)
Broadway Gallery, 17 Heathcoat Street, Nottingham NG1 3AF
Open from 24th June to 5th July, 2025 from 12 noon to 4pm except Sunday.
Art and Biodiversity: Sculpture and Sound
A residency and exhibition that brings together two artists from England and Germany in a practical conversation between art and the environment, sculpture and sound.
The residency will open on June 24th with an almost empty gallery with a vision to create a place where nothing is certain. Things that maybe plants, fungi, or even bacteria, reach from the top to the bottom, from corners and centre and out to the edges. Resonances, that may or may not be familiar, encompass the gallery. In, round or through the work in the exhibition, individual sounds play quietly amongst the sculptures creating micro worlds. The temporality of the listening process, its fragility, is enhanced by the contrasting solidity of the sculptures which threaten to invade the space.
Our aims are to stimulate discussion about sustainability, biodiversity and ecology, which arises through the materials and processes involved in the production of the work. It also looks at how the possibilities of sculpture and sound reinforce each other in the context of ecological issues. We welcome all viewpoints and present an invitation to enter the conversation in English or German.
Rusert and Wright began their collaboration during an artist exchange in 2024 in Germany, with Artcore Gallery, Derby and Osnabrück-based hase29, m82 studios and skulptur-galerie. The two artists continue to expand their work together alongside their individual practices and work to intensify the links between the two countries. This exhibition is possible thanks to the generosity of Broadway’s Near Now and continuing support of Artcore Gallery.