Georgia Gendall: Heat Between

12 Apr-15 Jun 2025

Overview

Following last year’s programme, engaging with local farmers to explore concerns around food production and farming in rural communities, Kestle Barton starts this season with a solo show by Georgia Gendall who has created a new body of work in collaboration with Kestle Barton, Wysing Arts Centre and local dairy farms.

Responding to time spent on dairy farms in Cornwall and Bedfordshire over the autumn of 2024, Heat Between eavesdrops on the farm – its rhythms and the entangled relationships between humans, animals, and the land we share. Drawing from familiar farm materials, tools, and processes already present in these spaces – salt, milk, circulation, tongues, thermal imaging, ingestion, hooves, absorption, erosion – Gendall reframes our relationship with farming, making space for its complexity, uncertainty, and tenderness while asking: what lies beneath the surface?

At the heart of the exhibition is a series of salt sculptures, shaped by the tongues of cows—using ingestion as both a process of form-making and a means of inquiry. How do we shape, and how are we shaped by one another and the land we inhabit? Expanding on this, the film Heat Between dissects the anatomy of the farm; dissolving bodily hierarchies and lingering within the intimate points of contact between multi species bodies and the earth, revealing the unseen, visceral entanglements that bind us and the residual traces we leave behind.

Accompanying these works is a book featuring writing and photographs by the artist, with essays by Lizzie Lloyd and Ben Borthwick.