Cultural Reforesting Exhibition

27 Mar-31 Aug 2025

Overview

You are a tree, and together we make a forest. You are a cell, you are a bird, you are the clouds, you are the nutrients in the soil. You are the spiderwebs between the branches and the breeze between the leaves. We are the forest. 

Cultural Reforesting asks the big question: How can we renew our relationship with nature? In this exhibition, the artists remind us that we not only have a relationship with nature but also that we are nature. We are human animals. Together, with our more-than-human neighbours, we are a growing, singing, howling forest. 

Cultural Reforesting brings together a group of artists, the pulsating environment of Orleans House Gallery’s woodland and gardens, and all who step (or fly, or crawl or take root) into the gallery ecosystem. The exhibition, with you, will bring something to the air, the soil, the ingenuity, of our shared planet. You will feel the wind on your nose as you re-engage your human animal, through all of your senses and your soaring imagination. 

Many of the artworks in this exhibition are a result of our Cultural Reforesting programme, which has supported artists research projects since 2021. Each artist’s research has its own focus, touching on the complexity of the ecological crisis. They consider how each of us might respond to the crisis, as an imaginative collaborator in – and contributor to – all our ecosystems. 

Artists in this exhibition include: 

Ackroyd & Harvey 

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte  

Ama Josephine Budge 

Finn Chatwyn-Ross of Crescendo 

Bryony Ella 

Abigail Hunt 

Adam Kammerling and Jess Ihetejoh 

Kinship Workshop 

Andrew Merritt of Something & Son 

Eloise Moody and Vicky Long 

Ivan Morison 

Harun Morrison and Kim Coleman 

Nestor Pestana