Middle Ground was a collaborative exhibition held at 44AD in summer 2024, supported by the Artist Network Development programme led by House of Imagination. The show brought together recent bodies of work exploring the intersections of craft and fine art—focusing particularly on the points where material practices, environmental ethics, and artistic process converge. The exhibition also featured contributions from Abigail Tinnion, Alisha Stokes, Beth Archard, Bhavana Ram Mohan, Charlie Day, Gemma Dunnell, Juliet Duckworth, and Sapphire Hendrickson.

At Middle Ground, Edie Evans presented a series of new works that brought together sustainable ceramics and hand-dyed and printed textiles. The ceramic pieces were made using locally foraged wild clay, processed by hand using minimal tools and fired in wood-burning kilns. This approach formed part of Evans’ wider commitment to environmentally responsible making, where each step of the process—collection, preparation, forming, and firing—was carried out with care and consideration for the material’s origin and ecological impact. The ceramics, shaped instinctively by hand, carried with them the memory of place and process, speaking to cycles of transformation, erosion, and return.

Alongside the clay works, Evans exhibited a collection of naturally dyed and printed fabrics that explored similar themes of provenance and interconnectedness. Using earth pigments, local plants, and foraged clay slips as colourants, she developed a personal material language rooted in landscape and memory. These textile works were often immersive in scale, encouraging the viewer to engage physically and emotionally with the surface.