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Vox PopuliCallowhill / Chinatown North

An Endless Meeting: Featuring Caroline Woolard

Closes this week2 October 2026 – 15 November 2026Free

Caroline Woolard's installation brings together works from "A Stone Holds Water" (2020) and "Art of Gravity" (2026).

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Wooden poles hang in mid-air and plaster arms circle their stands on fingertips, held up by balance alone. Caroline Woolard usually takes these Art of Gravity sculptures into workshops. Stand in front of one and you can run the workshop yourself: if this were your team, who is the base, who is the centre of gravity, and who is the part that moves?

The rest comes from A Stone Holds Water (2020). After more than a decade in arts collectives, Woolard worked out she had spent at least half her artistic life in meetings, so she started making objects to use in them. The title borrows the idiom "to hold water", for a claim that survives close inspection. Plenty of people have logged those meeting hours; she's the one who got sculpture out of them.

It shares Vox Populi's third floor with New Red Order and Kameelah Janan Rasheed, so see all three. Open Thursdays 4 to 6pm and Friday to Sunday 12 to 6pm, until 15 November.

Look for

  • The floating wooden poles

    Look for the Art of Gravity poles that seem to hang in mid-air, kept up by balance, gravity and support rather than anything you can see.

  • The plaster arms on fingertips

    Plaster arms circle their stands while resting only on their fingertips, the piece Woolard uses to ask which team member is the centre of gravity.

Good for

  • Locals Who've Seen It All
  • Nerding Out

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You want paintings on walls: this is balancing sculpture and objects made for meetings.

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