Artists At The Arc - Artist talk with Hugh Greasley
Hugh Greasley joins us at The Arc for our next Artists at the Arc evening. Hugh will be leading a talk exploring his creative practice, and we cannot wait to hear what he has to share. There will be time afterwards to meet and connect with fellow creatives!
The Landscape: My Wild Body
Hugh Greasley discusses the idea that the worldwide network of ecosystems is a second body, in which our physical first bodies are embedded. Like our first body, the second body is a complex system, always capable of springing surprises. His work of bronze casting, performance, film and poems, explores parts of the second body and how it interacts with the first body. Landscapes vary from local chalkstreams to remote islands in the Arctic.
Hugh also explores the fascinating and often uneasy intersection of text and image. The mixing of art and language can create a powerful dialogue, where visual forms and written words overlap to express things that neither could achieve alone.
‘I like to be walking in nature, sweating on hills, picking my way over gnarled roots and dodging the incoming tide on a beach, experiencing sometimes wild engagement with a landscape. The landscape informs me through my body and I like to find the intimate traces of the world, the hidden seams, to capture them and transform them into something that reconnects people with nature.‘
Hugh Greasley is a sculptor and poet, based in Winchester, combining sculpture, poetry and science. He graduated from a Sculpture MA at the Royal College of Art in 2025.
Date: Thursday 21 May
Time: 6:30pm-8:30pm
Free to attend - please register below!
Image: Hugh Greasley, Fleinvaer, Arctic Norway, November 2025.
