This exhibition presents installation works made from shoelaces, grasses, stone, pins, and sound, exploring the quiet entanglement of natural and synthetic materials.

Shoelaces, factory seconds made from petrochemical fibres, are melted and fused onto heather, chalk, and Yorkshire gritstone. Through heat, these everyday objects collapse into dense, root-like forms that appear organic yet reveal their plastic origins. The works echo emerging “fourth nature” environments, where industrial materials seep into soil, plants, and geology, blurring distinctions between what is natural and what is made.

Grasses and heather, bound with melted shoelaces, suggest the invisible presence of microplastics within living systems. Pins hold these fragile structures together, glinting like spores or signals—markers of tension, care, and vulnerability.

Sound, composed by Monty Adkins in close dialogue with the installations, is experienced through headphones as an intimate extension of the work rather than an accompaniment. It functions as texture and temporal presence, shaping how visitors attend to scale, rhythm, and duration.

Together, the installations invite slow and contemplative looking and listening, holding space for uncertainty; where endurance and damage, wonder and unease coexist within landscapes increasingly marked by synthetic traces.