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Current & Upcoming

MakeRoom

a photograph of flora hunts sculpture. "the dreaming begins" is written on the sculpture

Window Box Residency: Flora Hunt

a painting by Salina gani of two people tending to potted plants

Front Garden

Turf x CSoCA Residency 2023

a collage of designs bythe moss collective. most designs were created using posca pens

Fungus Residency: MOSS

Ongoing

a close up of flora hunts sculpture. a small red figure is sat on the edge of a yellow object

Window Box

Groundwerk

Fungus Press

2022

Three people photographed playing football, each is wearing a helmet with varying amounts of turf on them.

Cultural Field

A mini Polly Pocket style toy open on a white tiled shelf. It is cast in jesmonite, with a pale pink exterior and an interior covered with green grass flocking. Either side of the open toy are jesmonite casts of mini football goals, the ground around them has white pitch markings. In the background is a print of a frosted window.

Common Ground

a photograph of seven people posing in front of a football goal. five are wearing sports kits with "arts council england" painted on to them and wearing helmets covered in grass.

Fungus Press Residency: Cultural Field

a close up photograph of a variety of words. the word 'queer' is highlighted in red

Queer Lives and Art: Fungus Press

Fungus Press Residency: Cultivate That

CULTIVATE THAT

Alphabet

The Exchange 2

2021

a group of people doodle on a large roll of white paper

PROPAGATE THIS

Welcome to our Gallery

PLAY!

MOSS x NET

An animation shows Croydon's Whitgift Centre grow from grey concrete to covered in vines and greenery

About Us/Without Us

2020

a line decending in the dark with text that goes along "Opening essay, Louisa Martin, Bella Milroy, Jessica Scott, closing essay"

Present State Examination

A bunch of rocks with wooden framing lays on top of a checked floor, some having speakers or letters on top of them. a sign at the top says "Hülsta"

Signals in Reverse

A piece of paper mounted on a black canvas, the paper displays some unreadable notes

Technical-Adjacent

2019

a green poster advertising an exhibition

People Of The Pizza (Dominos please sponsor us)

black curtains pulling apart to show a screen peeking though. wallpaper of trucks and vans are next to the curtains

Channel 6

Three photographic portraits in a row of a person looking into the distance

Home is where the body isn’t.

a black, white and red carpet lays on top of the black area

Birthing Pool

A projected image of a large family photo

Little Vietnam

shelving unit, 3D scan markers, speakers, unfired stoneware clay, bisque fired ceramic, workshop clamps, tissue paper, pH neutral gravel, cardboard boxes, chilli pepper, hessian, nitrile gloves, packing materials

Strange Loop

Serf n Turf: Part Two

Croydon Plays Itself

Serf n Turf: Part One

2018

A metal sculpture of a human kneeling with another one leaning back in front of it

Companion to a Fall

MOTHERS

A range of photography being hung on a wall with a table displaying some small sculptures

Abra Anthills Complexities

Shonisaurus Popularis

tarp printed with water bottles hanging from gallery ceiling

Low Batt.

Detail of hanging pink fabric with purple prints

A cap, like water, transparent, fluid yet with definite body

a colourful illustration of four people around a table

FRIVOLOUS CONVULSIONS

2017

Divine Repurpose

~˜~˜DREAMSCAPE˜~˜~

Ciągle pod górę / All the time uphill

A sculpture of hands on a walker and an illustration in front of neon lights

Peaks & Troughs

an illustration with numerous parts resembling organs painted on a wall

Indiscernible // Karnika Satchi // Turf x Croydon School of Art Residency Exhibition

photo cutout board, bench, rainbow on a screen

You’re Surrounded by Me

a blue and pink hand being displayed on a pink and rocky background

Last words, so it goes

a photo of an exhibition many silhouettes of the same individual are being displayed, a table of the silhouette is also visible

Ways of Seeing

Nature still draws a crowd

Weft & Warp // Textile Industries of The River Wandle

two large metallic slab artworks being displayed on a wall with a picnic blanket displaying four more in front of them

Silence is so accurate

2016

Someone lays on a greenscreen under a blanket of both a translucent and reflective material

WAVES

metal bars inserted into white trainers in various positions

Trojan Home

A bunch of string hangs from the roof in the foreground, on the right side a red flag hangs out the wall, illustrations hang on the back. towards the right is a table with a sculpture display of musical instruments. in the middle there is a bench sculpture with a towel hanging off it

And so it was, and so it is

broken paving slabs with plant life growing out from in between their cracks

Formal Gardens & Informal Weeds

A colourful illustration of a tree being displayed on a white wall next to a door

River Wandle: A Constant Amid Change

the edge of the pavement with black text saying "red dot says you are here"

Ground

a group of people watching a projected movie

WENDLESWURTH II

A showcase on display, mutable fabric sculptures take the main focus whilst an illustration can be seen on the wall with smaller sculptures and plants displayed on plinths, a tower of mugs and other wooden structures are also seen in the foreground

Can I help you?

a pair of white light-up shoes on a faux fur rug

Get Fit

"Part time" vinal stickers on the ceiling

Moments of Zen

2015

A slap displaying an imprint of a lizard being displayed on a wall

A Bestiary

A table with two chairs sits next to a street window with two comically large wine glasses on it

“Art in restaurants is on the same level as food in museums” – Niles Crane

Someone drawing on a clipboard with a green pen with some pink and yellow accents

Stones of Croydon

Business As Usual

a large group of the TURF staff standing outside of the old turf building

MILESKM

Tru Luv

A person in the foreground holds up a phone to capture a QR code in the background.

A Pixel Or Digit?

2014

WENDLESWURTH

a large group of people enjoy the different holes of a crazy golf course

PUTT PUTT #2

three people looking at each other in the middle of a dirt field

No Turf Unturned!

2013

a group of adults playing crazy golf in the street on a rainy day

PUTT-PUTT

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