Contemporary and Country 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 celebrating 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, its people and landscape. 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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- MAKERS / HOMEWARE
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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 a great article highlighting the work Norwich based pop artist Colin Self, one of the exhibitors in our current... -
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
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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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SPRING SALON
Our Spring Selection For a Barn Convertion AnnexEvery year as part of what C&C do to promote contemporary art for the home, we organise installations (Salons), of contemporary works suitable and available for sale (or works that are similar or equivalent), selected and installed for a domestic living space.
This unusually contemporary space was designed by Norwich-based Architect Charles Emberson and completed a couple of years ago as independent accommodation for expanding family needs, serving as a family space for grown up teenagers, as well as a state-of-the art garage/workshop for the owners' classic car collection.
We hope you enjoy the combination of art, sculpture and handmade objects that we have used within the space. We would like to thank the owners for allowing us to turn their lovely light infused annex into a temporary repository for art, the moment government guidelines permitted.
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SPRING SALON
(from left to right) "Green Reversal (2018)" and "Piggy Back (2020)" both by Molly Thomson;
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GATEPOST
Latest news about exhibitions and events and the artists and makers C&C showcase-
Focus on Joni Smith
Creating new landscapes 11 June, 2021 We are showing a capsule collection of Joni Smith's impressive paper cut artworks in our latest pop-up #rockpaperscissors at Houghton Hall. Joni builds fictitious worlds using everyday objects. She works with maps and atlases, cutting into them, reordering them into new configurations. -
A new artist's space for Great Yarmouth
Visiting the new Yare Gallery 30 May, 2021 We made a much anticipated journey to Great Yarmouth yesterday to see the first show in the newly opened YARE GALLERY situated on the South Quay. Titled WEATHERING: NEW ART FROM EAST ANGLIA, it features the work of the "Yarmouth 5", artists Katarzyna Coleman, Bridget Heriz, John Kiki, Emrys Parry and Brüer Tidman plus works by other artists from across the region. Including Molly Thomson, Esmond Bingham and others. We are currently showcasing there work of many of these artists in our pop-up in the stables at Houghton Hall called Rock Paper Scissors. -
Marianne Faithfull's new album features Norfolk landscapes by Colin Self
She Walks in Beauty has been produced by Warren Ellis 10 May, 2021 Harriet Vyner of Cheerio, interviewed Marianne Faithful about her recent launch of "She Walks in Beauty". Produced with composer Warren Ellis, this draws on her passion for the poetry of Shelley, Keats, Byron, Wordsworth, Tennyson and Thomas Hood and features extra special appearances by Nick Cave, Brian Eno and Vincent Ségal. Not to mention artwork created by Colin Self, a long-time friend. We are selling limited edition prints of these illustrations at our next pop up at Houghton Hall, Rock Paper Scissors - opening 19 May -
Spring Salon - #1
Living with art and the handmade 26 April, 2021 We are publishing a series of images from collections we are currently putting together for clients. Here is the latest Spring Salon installation showing new work by Norwich based artists working with paper (Joni Smith and Ruth Howes) as well as Molly Thomson who creates these delicious constructed boards made unctious by the use of poured paint.
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