Exhibition: Saturday 7 February – Saturday 14 March
Launch Event: Saturday 7 February
Opening Times: Thursday – Saturday, 10am-5pm or by appointment
Where: Gallery 1 & 2, Reading Room and Garden
FEATURING:
Photographers: Ayesha Jones, Arpita Shah, Sophie Gerrard, Andy Pilsbury, Lúa Ribeira
Poets: Bohdan Piasecki, Zena Edwards, Iona Lee, Ifor Ap Glyn, Diz Undone (formally Dizraeli)
Growers: No Diggity Gardens (West Midlands), Black Rootz and Go Grow With Love (London), Lauriston Agroecology Farm (Scotland), The Penpont Project (Wales), Gothelney Farm and Field Bakery (South West England)
Grown by The Gaia Foundation, We Feed The UK is a national storytelling campaign pairing award-winning photographers and poets with some of the UK’s most inspiring regenerative food producers. These radical collaborations are raising awareness of the food system’s potential to positively address climate change, the biodiversity crisis and social injustice.
From February–March 2026, Primary will host a selection of work from this groundbreaking project, as part of the long-term Nourishment Programme. This iteration of the project will feature five stories from across the UK - showcasing unprecedented alliance between art and agroecology. What emerges from these encounters is unexpected. It is a gentle defiance against the dominant perspective of big agribusiness, and a joyful celebration of working with lands and waters in a way that heals people and place.
Food forms us and producing it with care for human and more-than-human communities can re-form our home for the better. These are the stories of regenerative farmers, urban growers and grain rebels: the quiet revolutionaries with grassroots solutions to climate change, biodiversity collapse and social justice. Bringing the exhibition to Nottingham, we’re connecting these inspiring national stories with local projects working towards food justice and regenerative growing.
Big agribusiness profits from fuelling climate collapse, poisoning soils, and killing our wild kin. Unjust systems spend public money to produce food coated in chemicals, much of it bound for export or the bin. With 75% of our isles tended as farmland, it is time for transformation. The regenerative practices celebrated in this exhibition, already thriving from fields to urban spaces, are the root of tomorrow’s resilience.
The Gaia Foundation has 40 years of experience accompanying allies, communities and movements around the world to revive biocultural diversity. They take a holistic approach to regenerate healthy ecosystems and strengthen community self-governance – both critical as we face the grave reality of climate chaos, biodiversity collapse and social injustice. Together with partners from the Atlantic to the Arctic, Africa to the Amazon, Gaia is reweaving the basket of life, revalorising the knowledge systems that enhance it, and restoring a respectful relationship with the Earth.
For more details please visit the project page.
Access:
The exhibition will be located across Primary’s spaces. There is level access to the ground-floor Gallery space, Reading Room and garden from our main entrance on Seely Road. However, there is no step-free access to our first-floor gallery space. Images from Gallery 2 will be available via books and all poems will be available to watch on a monitor in the Reading Room.
If you would like to make a group booking or visit our exhibitions at a quiet time, please contact us on the details below.
Large print, braille, and easy-read versions of the exhibition text will be available at our Reception; please ask our Front of House Assistant for details.
You can find further access information on our website’s Visit Us page and via AccessAble.
Please email admin@weareprimary.org or call 0115 924 4493 with any access inquiries.
Pam of Black Rootz at Wolves Lane. Photo: Arpita Shah