Contemporary and Country (C&C) present contemporary art and handmade objects 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, often including 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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ARTISTS AND MAKERS
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Keron Beattie
Keron Beattie has developed his early creative interests by attaining a BA (Hons), First Class Degree in Contemporary Art and Design 2016, from Norwich University of the Arts (NUA). He followed this up with an MA Fine Art Degree with Distinction 2018. Keron’s approach to sculpture is frequently led by thinking about found and recycled objects, using traditional manual tools and employing techniques that require a specific set of skills. -
Debby Besford
Debby Besford has been working as a freelance documentary photographer for more than twenty-five years and also works as a university photography lecturer, teaching part-time at degree level in Cambridge. She lives in North Norfolk and divides her time between commissioned work and personal work. -
Sue Blandford
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Mary Blue
Originally from the US Mary Blue has exhibited internationally, she took a break to raise her family and relocate to the UK. She gained a Master of Fine Arts in Painting from the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, where she studied with the then renowned landscape painter, Neil Welliver. Mary Blue continues in the tradition of landscape painting as a genre. She imagines human activity in the scenarios she depicts. -
Carolyn Brookes-Davies
Carolyn Brookes-Davies graduated from Goldsmiths College, London University in 1980 with a BA honours degree, followed by an MA at The Royal College of Art graduating in 1982. Carolyn is a multi-media artist and maker who lives and works in North Norfolk. She works using repetitive processes, constructing three dimensional objects by conscious sourcing, gathering, collecting and assembling material. -
Jonathan Clarke
Jonathan Clarke has developed an extensive catalogue of cast metal and poured concrete sculptures during the last thirty years. Jonathan style while abstract, reference the figure and the architectural. They carry a great deal of emotional resonance, often taking inspiration from social, spiritual and mythological subject matter. -
Katarzyna Coleman
Katarzyna Coleman is originally from London and has lived and worked for many years in Great Yarmouth. While in London she studied at Hornsey College of Art 1979-1982. Katazyna's work explores the impact of monumental structures of the 'unplanned' manmade landscape of former smoke houses and examples of hangar architecture that surround her studio in South Denes, in the harbour area of Great Yarmouth. -
Jane Crisp
After graduating with a First in Furniture: Design and Craft Jane Crisp set up her practise working from borrowed spaces. Later she built a workshop and studio at her home, in beautiful Hale Fen in Cambridgeshire. There is a strong biophilic language to Jane’s work, it’s poised, quiet and confident. Inspiration is taken from a combination of her life experiences and education in furniture making. -
Mark Croxford
Mark Croxford's wall-based constructions hint at the visual language of the inner city without recalling a specific place or time, they evoke a previous era. His vibrant wall pieces and sculptures reference painted versions of illuminated street signs. Combined with strong colour these graphic outlines become sculptures which celebrate the interplay between colour and form. -
Polly Cruse
Polly Cruse graduated with an MA in Fine Art from Norwich University of the Arts (NUA) 2004, she has shown her work regularly in the UK, as well as internationally in France and Italy. She has had solo exhibitions at Wembley Point in London, at Norwich Arts Centre. She is a member of the Norwich 20 Group of artists. -
Ferenc Cseh
Ferenc Cseh is a Cambridge-based visual artist, who has trained in London although originally from Hungary, whose artistic style is rooted in his architectural and fine art training. Ferenc enjoys working with geometric forms. His interest stems from his training as an architectural draftsman and his familiarity with representing 3D elements of the built environment. -
Claire Cansick
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Will Cutts
Will Cutts is a landscape painter based in North Norfolk. His depictions of Norfolk and Suffolk landscapes capture the hidden byways and open views painted plein-air in an open, fluid, contemporary way, Having achieved a First Class BA Hons in Fine Art, Will moved to London in 1986 and has divided his time between working with artists and galleries, as well as on his own work. -
Katayoun Dowlatshahi
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Amanda Edgcombe
Born in London, Amanda Edgcombe studied for her initial BA Fine Art degree at Nottingham University. She went on to study print at the Slade School of Art UCL and architectural glass at Central Saint Martin's London (University of the Arts London). Since moving to Suffolk her increasing familiarity with the rural landscape has changed her ideas of scale, colour, comparative viewpoint toward a new body of work. -
Kate Giles
Intensive drawing from life is the groundwork underpinning all of Kate Giles's practice. Kate cites Francis Bacon as an influence, who wondered how possible it was in a painting to ”catch the mystery of appearance within the mystery of making”. She grew up in Norwich and having read English at Oxford, studied at the Camberwell and Falmouth Schools of Art 1986-90. -
Gareth Hacon
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Roger Hardy
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Kathryn Hearn
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Stewart Hearn
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Bridget Heriz
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Jane Hindmarch
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Ruth Howes
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Laura Huston
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Linda Jamieson
Linda Jamieson was born and spent her childhood in Norfolk. She trained at St. Martins School of Art and studied further at Heatherlys and with Francis Pratt in France and Norfolk. She worked for many years in the field of textile design in London, France and Italy, and also as a consultant for interior design. She now divides her time between her studios in Norfolk and London and has also exhibited regularly in both. -
Suzi Joel
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Sue Kirk
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Katharina Klug
Katharina Klug describes herself as a potter, artist, business woman and maker and is based in Cambridge. Originally, from Austria and brought up to work with clay - her mother being a well known potter in Austria. Her work as a ceramic artist focuses primarily on the exploration of shapes on the pottery wheel. -
Christopher Marvell
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Liz McGowan
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Pandora Mond
Pandora Mond's inspiration and reference has always been the natural world. She works in oil and mixed media on canvas, often on a large scale and has returned again and again to the subject of the sea, as she feels it presents the greatest challenges and seduction; a place of tranquillity and threat, vastness and peace. -
Maria Pavledis
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Ben Pusey
Graduating from Hereford College of Art, Ben trained an artist blacksmith and explored the world of kinetic art. He loves exploring kinetic forged metal sculpture because of the endless varieties of shapes and forms it is possible to make and the rich potential of orchestrating movement. He uses these properties to inform the work’s interest in creating experiences of ‘calm’ and ‘relaxation’. The forged steel process adds to these conceptual qualities, detaching us from our ‘hyperculture’. -
Peter Rodulfo
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Tracey Ross
Tracey captures the North Norfolk coast, with its tidal creeks, open skies and expansive beaches in her paintings. Figurative in their formatting although using a soft abstraction she uses mixed media, acrylics and oils enabling her paintings to reveal the layered depth of the troposphere as she captures the sea and the sky and everything that lies in between. -
Colin Self
Colin Self exhibited at the Kasmin Gallery and the influential Robert Fraser Gallery in London alongside fellow British Pop artists Peter Blake, Clive Barker and Richard Hamilton who became household names in the early 60s by creating memorable images culled from advertising, film and TV. His work is in several national collections including the Tate Collection, the V&A Museum Collection, the Arts Council Collection, The Imperial War Museum and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. -
Ivy Smith
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Joni Smith
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Telfer Stokes
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Liz Taunt
Liz Taunt is a printmaker with an experimental approach to her production process. Liz uses many different printmaking techniques including dry point, lino, collagraph and monoprint, and has recently been making collages from discarded prints. She grew up in Cambridge and went to art school in Cambridge, Devon and London. She has worked as an arts administrator and an art therapist, amongst other things. Liz trained as an art therapist at Goldsmiths, London University. -
Molly Thomson
For Molly Thomson, painting is a process of construction, reconfiguration, application, observation and assessment. It is a process she repeats until the point is reached when each individual painting achieves a balance between its painted surface and object presence. Molly has exhibited widely in the UK and internationally in Australia, Japan, USA, Holland, Germany and Poland. -
Brüer Tidman
Brüer Tidman is probably one of the most identifiable painters to come from East Anglia. Brüer graduated from Great Yarmouth College of Art in 1961 and the Royal College of Art (RCA), London 1964. He worked as a Lecturer of Fine Art Painting at Lowestoft School of Art for many years and is now a full-time painter and long standing Associate of the Royal Academy of Art (RA). -
Joceline Wickham
Joceline Wickham studied Fine Art Painting at the Royal Academy Schools in the 1970s. She has painted and exhibited consistently ever since. Her paintings follow a preoccupation with looking closely at the ordinary. Joceline has exhibited her work regularly in London, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and throughout East Anglia. -
Paul Wolterink
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Peter Wylie
Peter Wylie was born in Lowestoft and completed a Foundation there in 1975. He gained a BA (Hons) degree in Fine Art from Canterbury College of Art 1978. After several decades pursuing his career, and continuing to paint, he decided to enrol on the MA Fine Art Printmaking at Camberwell College of Art, London (University of the Arts London) 2017.
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ROCK PAPER SCISSORS: ART AND OBJECTS PRODUCED WITH THEIR MAKING IN MIND
Our recent pop-up exhibition has now closed
Rock Paper Scissors was our most recent pop-up exhibition, which has now closed. If you missed it you may still view the exhibition online, using the link immediately below or the scope of the show using the second link underneath.
The title Rock Paper Scissors, refered to the childhood game of chance where material properties prescribe the outcome of each playful exchange between two players. The exhibition was at Houghton Hall Stables alongside an exhibition of sculpture by TonyCragg. Contributing artists and makers showed us the strength of their production process to create the alchemy that sometimes occurs between creative intent, material choice and dexterous fabrication.
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Autumn Collection
New collection for the autumn and winter 12 September - 31 December 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 autumn and winter. The collection will be available here on the C&C website into winter 2021. -
GATEPOST
Latest news about exhibitions and events and the artists and makers C&C showcase-
Gallery visit: 528Hz Love Frequency
Chris Levine at Houghton Hall October 26, 2021 -
Gallery visit: Welcome to My World
New paintings by Linda Jamieson October 12, 2021 Linda Jamieson's Welcome To My World was curated by Mandy D'Abo and Penny Walker at the Columbia Hotel, Lancaster Gate, London -
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. -
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.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
View editorial advertising on C&C events in print, digital and broadcast media-
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...
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