We Feed The UK:
The Complete Collection of Photography & Poetry
3rd April - 22nd June 2025
The Royal Photographic Society, 337 Paintworks, Arno's Vale, Bristol BS4 3AR
We Feed The UK is a nationwide storytelling initiative, grown by The Gaia Foundation, pairing ten photographers and ten Hot Poets with ten of the UK’s most inspiring food producers.
This unprecedented alliance between arts and agroecology is disrupting the dominance of industrial farming and fishing; so far opening 53 million pairs of eyes and ears to the positive solutions for climate change, wildlife recovery, and social justice offered by regenerative food systems.
These ten time-critical stories have been exhibited in succession over the past 12 months with regional arts and environment partners, including Street Level Photoworks (with Sophie Gerrard’s ‘Cultivating Equality’); Open Eye Gallery, Belfast Exposed, Photo Fringe, North East Photography Network, Multistory, Martin Parr Foundation, and GRAIN, Photographers include Jon Tonks, Lua Ribiera, Yvette Monahan, Johannes Pretorius, Johnanna Churchill, Ayesha Jones, Arpita Shah, Aaron Schuman, and Andy Pilsbury, alongside poets and writers. This culminating collaborative exhibition, will run for 12 weeks with the RPS in Bristol exhibiting the photography and poetry throughout the entire campaign.
Street Level Photoworks are thrilled to be involved in this radical collaboration in hosting the ambitious exhibition by Sophie Gerrard in 2024, which will be restaged for the collective show at the RPS, opening on 3rd April and running until the 22nd June 2025.
Information on Sophie Gerrard’s project:
“You’re wrestling with the title of ‘Farmer’s Wife’. There aren’t many industries where you’re so quickly demoted.” Sophie Gerrard is an award-winning photographer based in Edinburgh, commissioned for We Feed The UK in collaboration with Street Level Photoworks. Her practice is characterised by a sensitive exploration of the environment and our relationship to it. “I’ve been visualising our landscape through the eyes of those who are under-represented for a long time. Our landscape is part of our identity in Scotland. Yet, that’s a story predominantly told by men. Where are the women’s viewpoints? These photographs focus on their contribution. There is so much scope for positivity in these landscapes, with new opportunities constantly opening. This is a movement.”
https://wefeedtheuk.org/story/cultivating-equality-women-working-with-land/
https://rps.org/exhibitions/wftuk/
https://wefeedtheuk.org/collaborators/
Images: © Sophie Gerrard
