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UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth

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UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth



Fri 6th - Sat 21st June
Closed on Sundays

12:00 - 18:00

Event Type
Exhibition Launch
LFA Location
City of London
Audience
This event is for Everyone
Organiser
Velorose

'UNFOLDING: Packaging the Earth' presents a series of beguiling and compelling prints by Sam Hodge, transforming discarded cardboard boxes into layered visual narratives.

Using hand-ground pigments derived from both natural and built environments, Hodge gives voice to material worlds often overlooked, revealing their hidden stories and histories. Each print on cotton paper captures the texture, wear, and silent memory of packaging that once held the weight of commerce, consumption and communication; her artworks combine materials that 'bookend' the built environment, with rock and peat that have taken millennia to form, and abandoned packaging made from processed trees.

In response to the London Festival of Architecture’s 2025 theme of Voices, this meditative and thoughtful exhibition invites reflection on the environmental and human imprints embedded in everyday waste. Through a quiet yet powerful dialogue between matter and meaning, 'UNFOLDING' asks us to listen differently—to surfaces, to silence, and to the Earth itself.

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Launch Event

Vernissage / Unveiling of 'UNFOLDING' on Thursday 5 June 2025 (6pm to 9pm), to celebrate the first week of LFA25, and as part of the Whitechapel Gallery First Thursdays programme; all welcome. Visitors to the gallery will be able to acquire Sam's prints over a glass of wine at preview prices.

Free

This is a drop-in event with no booking required

Location

Velorose

1b Charterhouse Square
EC1M 6EE

Velorose is in a corner building, with the entrance (bright pink double doors) in Carthusian Street

Nearest station: Barbican (Underground), Farringdon (Elizabeth Line)


Accessibility


Baby changing facility
Gender neutral toilet
Level access, with no/automatic doors
Quiet space (inside)
Level access, with some step(s)
Captioned
Relaxed


For queries regarding access requirements for this event please contact: david@velorose.com .
View the LFA accessibility policy here


Velorose is a quiet and calm space with direct and level access between the street and the gallery; artworks are hung to suit people of various heights while standing and using wheelchairs, and text is printed with good contrast, at larger sizes, and in recognisable fonts

Image: Unfolding (A Delicate Balance), 2024 (Edition of 3; 1000mm x 730mm): Relief print from unfolded packaging using ink created with pigments made from coal, brick and mud from the Thames shore and Hackney earth on grey paper

Event Organiser

Velorose

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