NEW EVENT: Kinship Workshop as part of The Cultural Reforesting Exhibition 27 March-31 August 2025

We are very pleased to announce that we are joining a fantastic group of artists and creatives in the Cultural Reforesting Exhibition from 27th March to 31st August 2025, open Tuesday–Sunday: 10am–5pm. Free admission!

image description: colour logo with a light green background and a blue graphic depicting the concentric patterns of the inner rings of a tree. Overlaying text in white reads: Cultural Reforesting

Throughout much of 2024, we organised and delivered what we called the Nature-centred Wellbeing Programme – a 10-week series of in-person and online sessions with staff members of London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames and Wandsworth Councils in South West London. This project grew out of our residency in 2023 at Orleans House Gallery where the Richmond Arts Service are curating the Cultural Reforesting programme.

image description: a colour photograph depicting a rich green forest clearing in the mixed woodland of Putney Heath with a dramatic cloudy sky above. Dwarfed by the surroundings, a group of London Borough of Richmond Upon Thames & Wandsworth council workers sit together on the ground nestled in the landscape.

During the programme, 18 staff members from across the two councils spent time together and individually reflecting on and developing their own relationship to nature. The hybrid programme took us to green spaces in both boroughs including Orleans House Gallery’s beautiful woodland grounds and the incredible Putney Heath. In developing this programme we wanted to consider the link between nature and wellbeing and whether they are in fact separate. We learned a huge amount from the whole experience including the real tension between the pressures of work culture and what we discover when we spend intentional time outside.

Throughout, film maker and dance artist Simon Ellis documented the process and has since made a beautiful short film ‘Kinship’ which shares thoughts and reflections of the participants. This film will be presented in the exhibition alongside new Kinship Workshop audio and text guides that invite people to go outdoors and engage in some simple nature connection practices.

If you are in London, we hope you’ll head over to the exhibition. Orleans House Gallery is a beautiful place well worth exploring. Other artists and creatives sharing their work include:

Ackroyd & Harvey

Mónica Alcázar-Duarte

Ama Josephine Budge

Finn Chatwyn-Ross of Crescendo

Bryony Ella

Abigail Hunt

Adam Kammerling and Jess Ihejetoh

Andrew Merritt of Something & Son

Eloise Moody and Vicky Long

Ivan Morison

Harun Morrison and Kim Coleman

Nestor Pestana