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Like the green fig tree was a group exhibition of six artists from across the UK. The installation featured painting, sculpture, installation and a wall drawing across the gallery’s walls. 

TitleLike the green fig tree Artists Matt Antoniak, James Hindle, Harry Hurlock, Hazel Brill, Joanne Masding, Joe ShawDates03.01.2017 – 12.01.2017Location Workplace Foundation, GatesheadLink Click here

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The title Like the green fig tree is an excerpt taken from Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar. In the novel the narrator, Esther Greenwood, talks of her choice paralysis about what path to take in life, and how despite a situation of seeming abundance she is actually left with nothing. 

The exhibition extrapolated on this idea, and how in a world where information is so readily available, we find ourselves in the midst of a precarious and confusing global situation.  Artists referenced the failings of society, and a pervading culture of illusion, confusion and desensitisation. 

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Like the green fig tree was the final of three exhibitions curated by MILK at Workplace Foundation. The other exhibitions were This Is It, Isn’t It? and Worried Mother, and featured the work of Andrew Maughan, Alfie Strong, Paola Ciarska, Juliet Fleming, Liv Fontaine, Jake Kent, Philip Coyne, Grace Denton, Joe Fletcher Orr, Grace Denton, Max Lee, Luca George, Luke Mullen, Mathew Parkin and The White Pube (Gabrielle de la Puente and Zarina Muhammad).