The Gleaning is the second in a series of events and artistic responses to James Richard’s Wales in Venice representation at the 2017 Venice Biennale.

For ‘The Gleaning’, the artists Matthew de Kersaint Giraudeau and Sophie Mallett present a series of stories and short audio essays highlighting different kinds of gleaning. They explore gleaning as a historical right to subsist on common land, as a creative practice of selection, as mimicry and stealing, and examine examples of gleaning by machines and animals.