Green in the Grooves
Tamara Henderson
Camden Art Centre, London

Tak­ing audi­ences on a jour­ney through her cre­ative process, from exper­i­ments made in her stu­dio and gar­den in Aus­tralia, to a major new film com­mis­sion, a series of 12 paint­ings, a sound instal­la­tion, and ceram­ic, glass and bronze sculp­tures, Hen­der­son brings our sens­es into con­tact with realms that are beyond the reach of every­day expe­ri­ence, and posi­tions the imag­i­na­tion as a vital tool in shap­ing and rad­i­cal­ly inform­ing a new tomorrow.

The exhi­bi­tion speaks to the vital ener­gy that flows through the infi­nite chan­nels of life, the mossy crevices between stones or the green light that emanates from with­in veg­e­tal tis­sues. Draw­ing atten­tion to cycli­cal process­es in the envi­ron­ment, Henderson’s project reveals humanity’s inter­ven­tion in glob­al pat­terns of decom­po­si­tion, regen­er­a­tion and meta­mor­pho­sis and how such human inter­ac­tions can accel­er­ate and desta­bilise the del­i­cate bal­ance required to sus­tain earth­ly life as we know it. In an age sat­u­rat­ed by the dig­i­tal, Henderson’s work brings us back into mate­ri­als – to the ana­logue and hand-made, to process and exper­i­men­ta­tion – giv­ing rise to a dis­tinc­tive artis­tic lan­guage and an ani­mistic world­view, explor­ing how we are impli­cat­ed in wider cos­molo­gies that relate us to the plan­et and to the universe.

Curat­ed by Gina Buenfeld-Murley