GroundWork Gallery occupies a converted workshop on Purfleet Street built in 1937 by Charles Winlove, a King's Lynn furniture maker and publican. Veronica Sekules, formerly head of education and deputy director at the Sainsbury Centre at the University of East Anglia, bought the building with her husband Sandy Heslop in 2013 and opened the gallery in 2016. It is the only contemporary gallery in Britain dedicated specifically to art and the environment, showing work across two floors of the 180-square-metre former workshop. The programme runs changing exhibitions alongside talks, film screenings and community projects addressing environmental themes. Sekules draws on an earlier career with Friends of the Earth in shaping the gallery's focus. The gallery opens Wednesday to Saturday, 11am to 4pm, during exhibition runs.
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