This summer will see the fifth groving  project across the town centre in Bury St Edmunds.  For 2023  artists will make small works in response to the theme ​Encroach. Each day for two weeks during August a new work will appear on the streets, and people can enjoy them, move them,  or take them home. Each work and its site will be  posted on social media and the groving blog. 

 In 2022 the theme was Relic and all of the works, photos in their location and the written responses are posted on the groving blog. 

This summer we also have our first grove artist in residence for a while and I'm delighted that Amanda Loomes will  be working with grove. You can see the work of previous grove artists in ​Projects.

grove is a flexible, supportive opportunity for artists to concentrate on making new work  and test ideas. The purpose is to enable artists to concentrate for a short period on developing or trialing  work, with the use of a large garden, project space and digital equipment. Artists are invited to work with grove and are provided with accommodation, working space, promotion and an event. Hosted artists are not asked to necessarily complete work or to mount an exhibition. Emerging ideas and proposals for work can be tested and shared with an invited audience in any way appropriate. The project space is particularly suitable for immersive installation, film and sound. Follow grove @grove_projects.

grove is curated by artist and curator Barbara Dougan and situated at 1 Grove Road, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk IP33 3BE.