From Below offers a timely, materially rich exploration of seeds as a disruptive force. Through living works, root sculptures, and preserved archives, it reflects on systems in flux, ecological resistance, and quiet reclamation. Immersive and durational, the exhibition invites viewers into a slow unfolding of growth and unmaking.
Working with living sculpture and installation, Beverley Duckworth creates spaces and moments which connect the smallest poetic gestures of plants with social and ecological precarity shaping contemporary life. Her practice centres on the afterlife of the discarded and is rooted in small acts of reparation - sewing scraps together, watering fragile seedlings and nurturing the regenerative power of composting from waste materials.
Duckworth was born and lives in London and is a winner of the Royal Society of Sculpture’s Gilbert Bayes Award (2025). She was shortlisted for the John Ruskin Prize (2026) and was awarded a studio residency with the Sarabande Foundation (2025). She was selected for New Contemporaries (2024) and UK New Artists City Takeover (2022). She graduated with an MFA (with distinction) from Goldsmiths University (2024).
Duckworth has exhibited in the UK and internationally, with recent exhibitions including: Patience in Looking, Truth in Making, The John Ruskin Prize, London (2026); Terraforma, The Royal Society of Sculptors Gilbert Bayes Award Winners show, London and Wakefield (2026); Buffet d'art, Ambika P3, London (2026); Echo Soho with House of Bandits, London (2025); New Contemporaries, ICA, London (2025); Permission to Bloom, Don’t Look Projects, LA (2025); Crawling Home, Salzburg (2025); New Contemporaries, KARST, Plymouth (2024); Minor Attractions with SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Entanglements and Denials, Tang Museum, Dongguan, China (2024); A Landscape of Chance, SLQS Gallery, London (2024); The London Group Open, Copeland Gallery, London (2023); Now Introducing, Studio West, London (2022); Hypha Presents, 56 Conduit St, London (2022); UKNA City Takeover, The Attenborough Centre, Leicester (2022); The State of Things, Küefer-Martis-Huus, Liechtenstein (2021).