George Moody: ALL ROOTS LEAD TO YOU – exhibition

This exhibition showcases work by BA History of Art and MA Performance Design alumni George Moody, the Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP) Yorkshire Graduate Award holder for 2024.

This annual award offers an artist the opportunity to spend a two-week residency at the Park. Moody used this time to create sustainable materials in the natural landscape and produced a series of impermanent, ‘living’ works, which are displayed here.

The artist has gathered natural resources to ‘co-create’ with, such as algae and water samples from the lake, as well as roots, decaying plants and moss. They have also developed a cold-curing technique that encourages the works to decompose, and experimented with natural and artificial light to draw attention to this process. These works will eventually disintegrate entirely and leave only traces behind, highlighting nature’s adaptability and resilience to break down in order to build anew.

George has also created a piece of guided audio to support the exhibition, which can be accessed via the Bloomberg Connects app.

Please note that the works in the exhibition contain mould.

Full details can be found on the Yorkshire Sculpture Park website.

About the artist

George Moody studied BA History of Art and MA Performance Design at the University of Leeds. They have a multi-disciplinary practice that spans bio art, sculpture, photography, installation and digital technologies. Their work is inspired by the ideas of Queer Ecology – a blend of Queer Theory and Eco-criticism – which encourages us to attune to the unique spaces and paces of nature.

Rather than seeing ecology as passive or static, Queer Theory invites us to understand it as active, complex, and integrated, opening up new ways of relating to the environment in the face of the climate crisis.

Venue

The Boathouse
Yorkshire Sculpture Park
West Bretton
Wakefield WF4 4LG
United Kingdom

Feature image

Image © George Moody.