How wrong are we likely to have been?

2025, Orleans House Gallery, Cultural Reforesting Exhibition

Letters, paper, pillow, silk - Everyday materials from the studios of Vicky Long and Eloise Moody

How wrong are we likely to have been? 

Vicky Long and Eloise Moody came across this question at the National Physics Laboratory, Teddington, during their Cultural Reforesting research residency in 2021.

For this exhibition, the pair have explored a new way of working together – a ‘Postal Conversation’. Each made an artwork in response to this question and posted it to the other. They continued to make artworks and post them with written correspondence right up to the opening of Cultural Reforesting. Artworks were made quickly, in response to what was received and always in the context of the question.

Woven into this fresh work is their research into measurement and accuracy, supported by the National Physics Laboratory. Their exploration of Orleans House, its grounds and Archives is present, and the exchange also connects to their wider, individual practices.

Vicky and Eloise think of this work as a living dialogue and the question as one that all of us are engaged in somehow.