Contemporary and Country (C&C) present contemporary art and the handmade by established artists and makers based in the east of England in pop-up exhibitions at non-gallery spaces, that celebrate our rural surroundings.
The artists and makers we display live and work in rural locations, or include the natural world in their subject matter or production process. Together they bring about a closer understanding of the countryside, and the people that live there. They look creatively beyond the passing trend and encourage greater consideration for nature, as its appreciation and preservation becomes ever more prescient to our time.
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ART AND OBJECTS PRODUCED WITH THEIR MAKING IN MIND
Welcome to our pop-up exhibitionThe skills made evident in bringing about original ideas throughout a diverse range of work has been a recurring point of common interest for the artists and makers that C&C work with. Rock Paper Scissors refers to the childhood game of chance where material properties prescribe the outcome of each playful exchange between two players, with the material choice made by one player winning the point. For C&C’s latest exhibition at Houghton Hall Stables contributing artists and makers show us how they make their material choices, exploiting the strengths of their production process to create an outstanding and unusual outcome, whatever they do.
They’ve accumulated a wellspring of personal experience coaxing their creative ideas into being. Carved stone bowls, single sheet paper cuts, clever collages, poured paintings, hand built porcelain vessels, hand woven baskets, welded and sand-cast sculptures, hand blown glass, tactile turned wooden bowls and hand-hewn wooden platters acknowledge their material origins. Each piece reveals the alchemy that occurs between creative intent, material choice and dexterous fabrication.
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YOUR VISIT
OUR POP-UP EXHIBITION CAN BE SEEN ALONGSIDE TONY CRAGG'S SCULPTURE EXHIBITION 19 May to 26 September, 2021Visitors need to book in advance of their visit. Our pop-up exhibition ROCK PAPER SCISSORS is included in the entry price. However, entry will be refused without a valid ticket to view the Tony Cragg sculpture exhibition.
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2021 EXHIBITORS
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Autumn Collection
New and recent work for the autumn and winter 12 September - 31 October 2021 C&C's Autumn Collection is a selection of new or recent sculpture, painting, photography and works on paper with subjects that reference the winter months or that make use of reduced light levels accompanying autumn and winter. The collection will be available here on the C&C website until the point we publish details for our pre-Christmas event. -
GATEPOST
Latest news about exhibitions and events and the artists and makers C&C showcase-
Gallery visit: The Infanta Paintings
John Kiki at The Yare Gallery, Great Yarmouth September 11 2021 We recently attended the opening of this great exhibition featuring over 50 paintings from John Kiki's series of his Modern Infanta paintings. Contemporary and Country are exhibiting a number of Kiki's paintings from a private collection in our pop-up in the stables, Houghton Hall until September 26. -
Autumn Collection 2021
Colin Self prints included among collection of art and the handmade from across East Anglia Sep 6, 2021 Autumn is almost upon us... and I am listening to Marianne Faithfull and Warren Ellis' new album of poetry called "She Walks in Beauty" with imagery provided by Norwich based pop artist Colin Self. We are currently showing Colin's work in our pop-up at Houghton Hall. -
Gallery visit: A Passion for Landscape Rediscovering John Crome
An exhibition of late 18th - early 19th century English landscapes Aug 7, 2021 Our third visit to a gallery since the perculiarly anticlimactic easing of national lockdown was to the Castle Museum Norwich, to view the exhibition A Passion for Landscape Rediscovering John Crome curated by Giorgia Bottinelli. -
Spotlight: Esmond Bingham
The language of things July 17 2021 Suffolk-based Esmond Bingham works across a variety of media both 2D and 3D and on scales ranging from the environmental to the miniature. Although essentially non-representational his work is concerned with the physical, emotional and psychological language and the creative potential of everyday things.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
What the print, digital and broadcast media say about us-
Pop, Rock, Paper Scissors
19 June 2021 A big thank you to Rowan Mantell of the EDP for an enthusiastic article highlighting the work of Norwich-based pop artist Colin Self. He is one of the most celebrated... -
Escape into Art
1 June 2020 Thanks to Dominic Castle, Editor of Norfolk magazine. It's June edition, just published, features Contemporary and Country on pp52 and 53 - take a look when you get your copy... -
Arty Facts – North Norfolk Living
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Eastern Promise: contemporary art on the Norfolk Coast
31 May 2019 Thanks to theguardian travel section for coverage of Festival2019 – our latest popup in the stables at Houghton Hall. We were contacted by journalist Kate Simon who wanted our help... -
Focus on Norfolk
17 April 2017 > More details -
How to Spend it
8 October 2017 How To Spend It has been part of the Financial Times for more than 40 years and from 1994 has been published as a large-format glossy magazine. Widely regarded as... -
How Norfolk became the ideal weekend break for art lovers
4 August 2017 'With work this beautiful, you might just return to London with more than you bargained for.' Ravneet Ahluwalia (London Evening Standard) . > More details on this article -
What women really want for Christmas
7 December 2017 > More about this article
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