Contemporary and Country (C&C) present contemporary art and handmade craft by established artists and makers based in East Anglia in pop-up exhibitions that celebrate our rural surroundings. C&C's artists and makers live and work in the towns and villages throughout the east of England. Most live in rural areas. They bring about a closer understanding of the countryside, encouraging greater consideration for nature, as its appreciation and preservation becomes ever more prescient to our time.
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HEADS & TAILS: Picturing People and Other Animals
9 September to 28 October, 2023MORE ABOUT HEADS AND TAILSHEADS & TAILS focuses upon depictions of people and animals, by ten contemporary artists based in East Anglia, each with a different approach to their subject. Included within the exhibition are portraits of people accompanied by animals, these may be domestic pets, working animals in their work setting, wild animals in their natural habitat as well as animals from mythology and folklore. Nine of the artists included are based in Norfolk, one in Suffolk. Media includes painting, drawing, collage, sculpture, taxidermy, textile art and clay modelling.
Heads & Tails runs from 9th September until 28th October 2023.
Open from 11am to 4pm.three days a week, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. Taking place in the Fermoy Gallery and Shakespeare Barn, St George's Guildhall, 29 Kings Street, King's Lynn PE30 1HAFREE ENTRY
VIEW OUR BROCHURE ABOUT HEADS & TAILS
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GATEPOST
Latest news: artist activities, studio and gallery visits, exhibitions and events-
What kind of animal are you?
Opening Weekend of Heads and Tails 10 September, 2023Our latest exhibition "Heads and Tails' is now open in the Shakespeare Bark and Fermoy Gallery, King's Lynn. It brings together a group of artists who have all been working with the many narratives that inform their work and have given rise to this exhibition exploring teh interspecies bonds formed between people and animals. -
C&C's latest exhibiton Heads and Tails launches
Picturing People and Other Animals 6 September, 2023Heads and Tails will be a group exhibition of ten artists exploring the interspecies bonds formed between people and animals and how they look within the home, the workplace or in the wild. The artists propose various disciplines that engage with human as well as animal behaviour and how that is represented in art now. Heads and Tails will open Saturday 9 September, until Saturday 28th October 2023. It will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 4pm with FREE ENTRY. It takes place at The Fermoy Gallery and Shakespeare Barn, St. George's Guildhall, 29 King Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1HA. -
KL Magazine: C&C's East to East
An Eclectic Exhibiton of Local Talent 15 July, 2023Our exhibition "East to East" is open every Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday and Sunday until October 1. We recently had an article published in KL Magazine which had a focus on on those artists and makers based in the Fenlands of East Anglia. -
Gallery visit: Laurence Edwards
Recumbence - Norwich School, Cathedral Close, The Crypt Gallery 3 July, 2023Recumbence is a solo exhibition of sculpture by Suffolk based sculptor Laurence Edwards, centred upon his studies for a single male figure, in bronze, laying horizontally, his head slightly raised, hanging to one side, as if examining his own predicament. The exhibition is at Norwich School, Cathedral Close, The Crypt Gallery -
Ceramic forms embued with a true sense of place
Marsh Mud Glazed Vessels by Ella Porter 1 July, 2023Drawing upon the unique landscape of Stiffkey Salt Marshes; this collection of works reflect on a sense of this special place through memories of costal walks and observations of the landscape shifting and changing through seasons. -
Sean Scully: Smaller Than The Sky
Exhibition of Sculpture and Painting at Houghton Hall, Norfolk 2 May, 2023Sean Scully's solo exhibition of sculpture and painting Smaller Than The Sky is dispersed throughout the house and grounds of Houghton Hall, from 23 Apil to 29 October. It is the latest in Houghton Hall's series of world-class exhibitions by international contemporary sculptors. -
Off the blocks with East to East
Art and Craft with an Asian Influence 14 April, 2023 -
Spotlight: Nessie Stonebridge
Capturing Raw Nature 20 March, 2023Nessie Stonebridge's paintings depict the explosive energy of rural Norfolk's avian splendor, where her studio is based. A flash of light, feathers, beaks; a vortex of vitality, blood, life and death. Nessie paints birds of the wetlands and hinterlands: magisterial swans, herons and raptors. Nessie’s paintings take on something of their subject's activity.
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What's On in Norfolk - October Issue
Heads & Tails in The Fermoy and Shakespeare Barn 30 September 2023 -
Arty Facts in North Norfolk
Animal Magic 20 September 2023 -
Gallery: Art with a tail to tell
15 September 2023Ian Burt captured the essence of the many tales spun into the artworks on display in the galleries in St George's Courtyard, off King Street, King's Lynn. See Gallery images... -
Going Out - with a fair few animals included
7 September 2023Big thank you to the Places and Faces team for including mention in 'Going Out' column. Our new exhibition 'Heads & Tails: Picturing People and Other Animals' is open in... -
ArtRabbit on Heads & Tails
6 September 2023Norfolk Spotlight: Heads & Tails. Picturing People and Other Animals We are grateful to Vivi and her team at ArtRabbit for this feature on our new exhibition in the heart... -
ArtsEast: Heads and Tails at The Guildhall, King's Lynn
5 September 2023A huge thank you to Sarah Veness and her tteam aat ArtsEast for running an article about our current show 'Heads & Tails: picturing people and Other Animals' currently openn... -
Lynn News: Heads and Tails opens in King's Lynn
5 September 2023Thanks to jeremy Ransome of Lynn News for running an article about teh opening of our new exhibition 'Heads & Tails'. See link below to view online https://www.lynnnews.co.uk/whats-on/heads-and-tails-exhibition-9329014/ -
Heads & Tails exhibition opens in King's Lynn
Picturing People and Other Animals 31 August 2023 -
Sean Scully and East to East at Houghton Hall
27 March 2023We are thankful to Dominic Castle and his team at Norfolk Magazine for covering the build up to the opening of Sean Scully - smaller than the sky and our... -
An Arty Weekend in North Norfolk
23 March 2023We were delighted to get a mention in the Guardian on 23 March for 'EAST TO EAST' This year promises to be a wonderful opportunity to see lots of art... -
Art & Culture in Norwich and Norfolk
13 March 2023The new brochure promoting art and culture in Norfolk and Norwichhas been published outlingin all the events and activities for residents and visitors across Norfolk including the City of Norwich.... -
About Suffolk
River's Edge opens 7 June April - June 2022We're delighted to be featured in Issue 1 of the newly published About Suffolk published by About Media.See p32 and p51
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