SEE HERE NOW – ART IN A TIME OF URGENCY

SEE HERE NOW brings artists, artworks and conversations together: through an exhibition in the Galleries of Grizedale Forest (April – June 2025) and an online multi-disciplinary symposium (late 2025, dates TBC).

A woman with back to camera dances, with a swathe of colour across a black background
A pen and ink drawing of a glacier, with blue and purple colours

exhibition:
Grizedale forest galleries April 4-June 8 2025

SEE HERE NOW showcases work from 30+ PLACE Collective artists, sharing projects, experiences and multi-media artworks concerned with better understanding and caring for our natural environment. Exhibiting in Grizedale Forest is to build on a legacy of thoughtful and often boundary-pushing art: art that provokes and inspires, and often incorporates humans, other species, and the land itself.

Preview and meet-the-artists: April 5, 2025

An image for the See Here Now exhibition preview

Come along to Grizedale Forest to meet some of the exhibiting Artists. Hazel Stone, National Curator of Contemporary Art, Forestry England, will be in conversation with a selection of the artists from 4-5pm. Thereafter, join us for a stroll around the exhibition – the event runs until 7pm.

More about the exhibition and exhibiting artists … click here.

A black pen outline drawing of a daffodil, over brown marks on paper
A glove puppet: a silver coloured face with green wool strands and silver cloth
An image of a textile showing blocks of colour from earth pigments and oil paint
A black and white line drawing, made by tracing shadows made by a single rock during the course of a day
an illustration of a fruit and flower head, on a brown back drop with illustrations of cells. The text reads: 'Tree against hunger. Red Abyssinian. Maurelii. False Banana. Ensete ventricosum.'

see here now symposium

A steering group from within the PLACE Collective is developing the framework for an online symposium that will bring artists together with people from a wide spectrum of disciplines and specialisms: an assemblage of skills, experiences, questions and suggestions as we collectively grapple with urgent issues connected with climate change and biodiversity decline.

The shape of the symposium will be defined during discussions held between artists, and in conversation with CNPPA and the PLACE Collective advisory board. More will be shared here as plans develop.

Women dressed in blue dancing against a blue background
Still image from ‘Imaginal Cells’ by Bryony Ella
A black and white line drawing on a table, with a stone beneath
06.58 Carron Crag 19.10 Epoch – Simon Hitchens
A dried and pressed daffodil, brown in colour, laid over paper with faint traces of handwriting
How to Draw a Daffodil (C) by Camilla Nelson
Jools Gilson in Mary Wycherley’s ‘Weathering’ (2023); image by Marcin Lewandowski
An illustration in brown paint showing a sea creature
‘Amphiura’ sea sediment and seawater. Naomi Hart 2024.

Header image: Jools Gilson, in Mary Wycherley’s ‘Weathering’ (2023). Image by Marcin Lewandowski.