Yours, in Extraction: Robyn Woolston
October 19 – November 18, 2022
Robyn Woolston’s socially-engaged practice elicits site-specific responses to environmental concerns and human agency. In this exhibition her work across installation, photography, moving image and print explored eco-grief, climate anxiety, land rights and plant extinction within the extraction-rich geographical environment of Texas, USA. Woolston presented a new film and a series of discursive objects resulting from ideas and materials gathered during residency periods in Fort Worth (2019-22) and through collaboration with Texas Christian University’s Department of Psychology and BRIT, the Botanical Research Institute of Texas.
Woolston’s recent solo exhibitions include Last (Chance), a 10yr Retrospective during COP26 @ the Pipe Factory, Glasgow, UK (2021); Men Marched Asleep, Wilfred Owen Centenary Commission, The Williamson Art Gallery and Museum, Merseyside, UK (2018); and, Suite Sorrows, Holst Birthplace Museum, Cheltenham, UK (2018). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including In Extinctia, Curve Gallery, Newcastle, Australia (2021); Straining Every Sinew as part of the Quiet Carnival, Friction Arts, Birmingham, UK (2020); The Listening Station, The Wilson, Cheltenham Library, Cheltenham General Hospital and Leisure at Cheltenham, UK (2018); and Cultural Traffic, Hester St Fair during New York Art Week (2018). Woolston is currently Social Practice Lead at the New Forest Heritage Centre, Lyndhurst, England.
Installation images by Raul Rodriguez
