How wrong are we likely to have been? 2025
Co-created with Eloise Moody, using everyday materials from the artists’ local environments
Part of Cultural Reforesting at Orleans House Gallery, 27 March to 31 August 2025
We came across the question: How wrong are we likely to have been? at the National Physics Laboratory, a neighbour to Orleans House Gallery. The Lab’s Guides to Measurement explain that it’s not possible to be sure of a ‘true answer’ and so the ‘concept of uncertainty’ must play a part in any measurement.
We started a postal conversation, each making an artwork in response to the question and posting it to the other. We continued with a chain of response, up to the moment of exhibition. Each artwork was accompanied by written correspondence, which warmed to the idea that leaving room for the possibility of error in assessing past, present and future action may be just the thing for assuring a healthier relationship with nature.
How wrong are we likely to have been? is part of Cultural Reforesting, an exhibition at Orleans House Gallery which brings artists including Ackroyd & Harvey, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ama Josephine Budge, Bryony Ella, Ivan Morison and Nestor Pestana together with work exploring how our relationship to nature can be renewed.