A Goldsmiths MFA graduate, winner of the Royal Society of Sculptors’ Gilbert Bayes Award and a recent artist-in-residence at the Sarabande Foundation, Duckworth has rapidly emerged as one of the most distinctive voices working at the intersection of sculpture, installation, textiles and environmental practice. From Below demonstrates why.
Rooted in her background as a social and environmental justice campaigner, Duckworth approaches seeds not merely as botanical matter but as agents of change. “I conceptualise seeds as activists,” she explains. “The way they find their way through cracks in the concrete and collectively have the power to overcome whole landscapes.” This idea forms the conceptual foundation of an exhibition that considers resistance as something that often begins invisibly, beneath the surface." - Lee Sharrock
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