⁕ Ground ⁕ is a collaborative project, working seasonally with artists, using ideas and materials that come from the ground.

Led by Jessica Mason, Katrina Wilde and Natalia Kasprzycka, Ground runs workshops across the city of Stoke-on-Trent. The project was funded by Stoke-on-Trent BID and Arts Council England between 2023-2025. Since 2024, we have been steward a 6-plot allotment site on Leek Road.

‘A Year of Grounding’ was an exhibition held at Airspace Gallery in April 2024; a weekend-long exhibition with workshops, films, seed sowing and more.

Each season is made up of one cycle of workshops, from the ground up. Soil, Clay, Cloth and Conversation. These materials are intrinsically linked together. As makers and artists ourselves, we believe in the need to understand how *things* come to be, leading to deeper connections with the materials world and moving away from throw-away culture. By bringing in practitioners that can share their particular material knowledge in a workshop, we hope this can give you good grounding to understanding materials and the living world around us, at a deeper and more intimate level.

Graphics have been design and created by Holly Eliza Temple.
Photography by Adam Gruning.