EARTH NOTES / STOCKWELL HOUSE HAUSER & WIRTH
A solo exhibition bringing Earth Notes, a research project exploring relationships between clay, landscape and regenerative material practices through sculpture, photography, moving image and gathered materials.
Earth Notes is an ongoing research project by artist Edie Evans, exploring relationships between clay, landscape and regenerative approaches to making. The project has developed through walking, gathering, material testing and research, using local and found materials to look more closely at the geological histories of place and the ways materials are shaped, used and transformed.
At the centre of the research is an interest in where clay come from, what they can tell us about the landscapes they belong to, and how we might work with them differently. Particularly local geology and vernacular making traditions, exploring how knowledge of materials has historically developed through close relationships with particular places. This includes looking at earth-building techniques and other forms of making that use materials directly from the surrounding landscape.
Working across sculpture, photography, moving image, gathered materials and material studies, the project combines practical experimentation with field research. Rather than treating clay as an industrially processed material, Evans works with gathered clays, earths and other locally sourced materials, allowing their different qualities, origins and limitations to shape the work. These processes form part of an ongoing investigation into more regenerative alternatives to extractive systems of material production.
Working across sculpture, photography, moving image, gathered materials and material studies, the project combines practical experimentation with field research. Rather than treating clay as an industrially processed material, Evans works with gathered clays, earths and other locally sourced materials, allowing their different qualities, origins and limitations to shape the work. These processes form part of an ongoing investigation into more regenerative alternatives to extractive systems of material production.
In 2026, Earth Notes came together at Stockwell House, Hauser & Wirth, through a residency and solo exhibition. The residency provided an opportunity to develop the research directly within South Somerset, exploring its landscapes, geology and vernacular building traditions while continuing to test and work with local materials. The exhibition brought together works developed over several years alongside new sculpture, photography, moving image and material experiments made during the residency.
A publication was produced alongside the exhibition, bringing together the research, images, material studies and investigations that have shaped Earth Notes. Together, the exhibition, residency and publication form a snapshot of an ongoing project that continues to develop through moving between places, collecting materials, researching their histories and learning through making.
