The Geological Unconscious

A group exhibition featuring artists Julie F Hill, Susan Eyre, Charlie Franklin, Rona Lee and Deborah Tchoudjinoff that explores themes of stone consciousness and human-mineral encounters, destabilising assumptions about passive matter and a stable Earth.

The exhibition exposes the complex entanglements between the organic and the inorganic; the human and the lithic.

The Geological Unconscious is located through disruptive Surrealist strategies, engagements with the aesthetics of geo-materiality and material processes that attend to the growth and transformation of matter. These artistic ‘excavations’ highlight the toll of extractive industries on our planet, whilst inspiring reverence for the geological lineages of deep, cosmic time.

A public events programme accompanies the exhibition including a geologist-led Urban Walking Tour and a crystal growing workshop.