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
The National Physical Laboratory is close to Orleans House Gallery. In the Lab’s Guides to Measurement the question How wrong are we likely to have been? is asked. The Guides 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.
Eloise and I found this interesting. As we explored Orleans House, its woods, grounds and art collection, making our own assessments, how wrong were we likely to be? And what about other people who had engaged with the site in the past or would do so in the future?
We began a postal conversation, writing around this question and sending each other artworks. These are now on show, as part of the exhibition, Cultural Reforesting at Orleans House Gallery.
This group exhibition features works that address the wider question of how we can renew our relationship to nature? by artists including Ackroyd & Harvey, Mónica Alcázar-Duarte, Ama Josephine Budge, Abigail Hunt and Ivan Morison.