Primary, 33 Seely Road, Nottingham, NG7 1NU
7 February – 14 March 2026
Free event
From 7 February – 14 March 2026, We Feed The UK goes on tour to Primary: an artist-led gallery in a former school in Nottingham.
Their characterful walls will be home to a selection of photography and poetry from this ground-breaking project, as part as part of their long-term Nourishment Programme.
On display will be stories of women in Scotland reclaiming the custodianship of seed, farming, and food that they hold in most Indigenous cultures; of Black-led collectives in London sharing soursop, watermelon, and cane, ripened in glasshouses with the expertise of 80-year-olds who carried agroecology to these isles from their ancestors; of elders in Wales sharing their wisdom with young people in an intergenerational, interspecies exchange that is giving nature space to flourish afresh on our oldest hill farms.
The exhibition will open with a launch party on 7 February 2026, which will include a free seed swap run by The Gaia Foundation’s Seed Sovereignty Programme. Join us in gentle defiance of big agribusiness, for a celebration of working with lands and waters in a way that heals people and place.
Primary is open Thursdays – Saturdays, 10am-5pm. Their on-site Small Food Bakery is open Fridays and Saturdays 10am-2pm, and the Beam gallery, café and bookstore is open Thursday – Saturday, 9am-5pm.
Explore the stories being exhibited:
FOOD JUSTICE: SERVED FRESH FROM URBAN GROWERS
Inspired by Go Grow With Love and Black Rootz in London
Poetry by Zena Edwards in collaboration with Hot Poets | Photography by Arpita Shahin in collaboration with Photo Fringe
CUSTODIANS OF THE LAND: INTERGENERATIONAL RESTORATION
Inspired by The Penpont Project in Wales
Poetry by Ifor Ap Glyn in collaboration with Hot Poets | Photography by Andy Pilsbury in collaboration with Action for Conservation
NO DIGGITY: COOLING OUR CLIMATE
Inspired by No Diggity Gardens in the West Midlands
Poetry by Bohdan Piasecki in collaboration with Hot Poets | Photography by Ayesha Jones in collaboration with Multistory
CULTIVATING EQUALITY: WOMEN WORKING WITH SCOTTISH LAND
Inspired by Lauriston Farm in Edinburgh
Poetry by Iona Lee in collaboration with Hot Poets | Photography by Sophie Gerrard in collaboration with Street Level Photoworks
GRAIN REBELS: A FOOD REVOLUTION STARTS WITH SEED
Inspired by Gothelney Farm and Field Bakery in Somerset
Poetry by Diz Undone (formerly Dizraeli) in collaboration with Hot Poets | Photography by Lúa Ribeira in collaboration with The Royal Photographic Society
