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Gallery visit: Laurence Edwards
Recumbence - Norwich School, Cathedral Close, The Crypt GalleryRecumbence 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. Because of the subject and its context in a crypt, within the Cathedral Close of Norwich Cathedral, we read the figure as Christ, laid out flat, entombed, lifeless. A powerful subject.
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Sean Scully: Smaller Than The Sky
Exhibition of Sculpture and Painting at Houghton Hall, NorfolkCrate of Air 2018 by Sean Scully, detail viewSean 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.
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Gallery Visit: Lucie Rie, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge
The Adventure of Pottery: 4 March - 25 June, 2023Lucie Rie vase with leaf designWe were in Cambridge last week and got to see the Lucie Rie exhibition at Kettle's Yard House and Gallery, Cambridge. The exhibition is free and if you are interested in mid-century ceramics, the assembled work is breathtaking. It opened 4 March, and runs until 25 June, 2023.
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Gallery Visit: Amanda Edgcombe at The Cut, Halesworth
LOOP: An Exhibition of Paintings and PrintsAmanda Edgcombe's current exhibition Loop presents new carborundum prints and gesso paintings where a closer relationship between painting and print making has been developed.
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Sean Scully Exhibition Coming Soon
Opens 23 Apil – 29 October, 2023Crate of Air, 2018. ©Sean-Scully. Courtesy the artist and YSP (Yorkshire Sculpture Park). Photo © Jonty-WildeIt is a rare moment for art audiences in the UK as internationally acclaimed artist Sean Scully opens a solo exhibition of his sculpture and paintings, displayed throughout the house and grounds of Houghton Hall, Norfolk. Scully has exhibited internationally, during a long career. Smaller Than The Sky will be one of the visual art events of the year in East Anglia.
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Spotlight: Liz McGowan
Absence: Norfolk Chalk ReefAbsence: Norfolk Chalk Reef – No. 1, Liz McGowanLiz McGowan is an artist who works with natural and found materials, creating responses to particular environments through installation, sculpture, drawing and conversation. She exhibits her work nationally and carries out creative interventions in the environment at locations throughout Norfolk.
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Spotlight: Victoria Fenn
New table top sculpture for 2023Crown III, 2023Victoria Fenn is a sculptor exploring memories and landscape motivated by her personal connection to the Cambridgeshire Fens, where she grew up on the family farm.
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Gallery visit: BIG WOMEN
Firstsite: 20+ women artists curated by Sarah LucasIt is not without irony that the exhibition BIG WOMEN, including more than twenty leading women artists, is taking place at Firstsite, Colchester in the heart of Essex, the home of the misogynistic Essex joke.
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Spotlight: Linda Jamieson
New paintings for Spring 2023I didn’t see that coming, 2022Linda Jamieson is a painter whose work has been closely associated with the North Norfolk coastal landscape for a while now. It is where she spends much of her time. For the last two years her work has moved away from observation and memory, toward a more imaginative use of landscape as a barometer of her own state of mind.
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Spotlight: Tassie Russell
Revealing architectural space in paint and printAfter a career teaching in universities in the UK and Australia, Tassie Russell now works in her painting and printmaking studio on the Suffolk coast.
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Avant Gardeners Concludes
End of season at Houghton Hall StablesAs the Dahlias tip over into each other, drawn down with the weight of their heads, and we de-install Andrew Jones's wonderful kinetic sculptures in the walled garden, we are thankful to have reached the end of the summer season at Houghton Hall Stables.
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Spotlight: James Gladwell
Stitching a line, and then anotherArtist James Gladwell, visiting Avant Gardeners at Houghton Hall Stables'A line will take us hours maybe; Yet if it does not seem a moment's thought, our stitching and unstitching has been naught.'
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Gallery Visit: Liz McGowan
The spirit wraps around me: nature as a second skin, 12 June - 25 AugustLiz McGowan traversing the River Nar wearing one of her cloaks, detail of a photograph by Harry Cory WrightEnvironmental artist Liz McGowan asks questions of us about how we may relate to our surroundings, in her current exhibition at Stapleford Granary, Cambridge.
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Gallery Visit: Ernst Gamperl
At Houghton Hall, Norfolk, until 25 SeptemberErnst Gamperl installation in the Stone Hall Houghton HallFour years ago the sculptor and master wood turner, Ernst Gamperl, took delivery of a gift from the Marquess and Marchioness of Cholmondeley. It was an oak tree, recently felled, thought to be one of the trees already present when the Houghton Hall Estate was first established three hundred years ago, in 1722 by Sir Robert Walpole.
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The Granary Gallery: It's All Happening Here
Summer in the CityWe have put the final touches to our summer installation at The Granary Gallery this week. The seasonal refresh brings with it a selection of established artists based on the north coast to the second phase of the exhibition and several new artists we have introduced, showing with us for the first time. Alongside them are new examples of work from one or two of the artists we opened with for this ongoing project on the second floor of The Granary store.
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River's Edge: Shoreline Finds
Sculpture by Jack Wheeler and Beth GroomInstallation of sculpture by Jack Wheeler, River's EdgeJack Wheeler and Beth Groom are sculptors who met at Norwich Art School (NUA) while they were still undergraduates. The pair have since carved out their separate careers. Jack as a Carpenter specialising in bespoke carpentry, hand-built timber buildings and Beth as an Art Therapist working in a care facility for people with learning difficulties, Along side these activities they work together as artists on their creative projects.
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River's Edge: Emily Mayer's Bird Sculptures
A tribute to the life and work of Emily Mayer (November 1960 – April 2022)Eel Catcher (2004/7) 50.5 x 47 x 40 cm Steel, plastic, copper.We had hoped to be presenting the sculptor and taxidermist Emily Mayer's beautifull bird sculptures in Suffolk, while she was in recovery from cancer. Sadly as the deadline for the exhibition approached we received the news that Emily's cancer had returned and just a few weeks later that she had died on 1st April 2022.
We would like to thank the artist, John Locker, her husband for allowing us to show Emily's work in the exhibition and for access to her archive, to display a small selection of her beautiful bird sculptures.
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River's Edge: Exhibition Launch
Group exhibition at BallroomArts, AldeburghRiver's Edge, Jack Wheeler's installation at BallroomArtsC&C's latest pop-up exhibition at BallroomArts, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, is opening Tuesday 7 June at 10am, taking place in both gallery spaces. The Courtyard Gallery, at ground level contains a group exhibition comprising more than twenty artists who have a strong connection with the Suffolk coast and the landscape of East Anglia.The first floor ballroom houses bird sculptures by the late Emily Mayer, new sculpture by Jack Wheeler and Beth Groom.
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New International Art Award Launched
The Vasseur BALTIC Artists' AwardTim Bliss (right) Isabel's husband and Roman Vassseur (left) one of Isabel's son's at the launch eventThis summer C&C will be fundraising for the Vasseur BALTIC Artists'Award launched last week at BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art in Gateshead, named after Isabel Vasseur (1942-2021). Isabel was a pioneering commissioner and supporter of artists from the UK and internationally. The award for international artists has sbeen created in recognition of her long association in promoting international art commissions and her connections with East Anglia the North East and her work with the BALTIC as a trustee.
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Gallery Visit: The Art of Roller Skating by Debby Besford
An Original Projects exhibition at PRIMEYARC, 5 March - 1 May, Market Gates, Great YarmouthThe Art of Roller Skating is an exhibition by artist and documentary photographer Debby Besford, celebrating the artistic roller skating heritage of Great Yarmouth.
The exhibition has been organised and hosted by Original Projects, held at PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth, from 5 March to 1 May 2022. The exhibition also incorporates stories, artefacts and memorabilia invited from the community, to activate relationships, events and activities throughout the show.
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Studio visit: Elizabeth Merriman
An artist with green... amber, yellow, and cerise fingers!In December 2021, before the spectre of another Christmas lockdown raised its potential, Paul and I managed to follow through on a number of long overdue studio visits. Among these was a quick visit to the North Norfolk coast to see a capsual collection of artist Elizabeth Merriman's recent pastel drawings of garden flowers adorning the ground floor of a clifftop cottage overlooking the North Sea.
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Studio visit: Steven Will and Annie Turner
Ceramic open studio, SuffolkIn preparation for our summer programme of events for 2022 we took the opportunity to visit Steven James Will and Annie Turner during their pre-Christmas open studio event in late November. While both work in ceramics and conveniently share a building, they could not be more different from one another in terms of outcome.
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Gallery visit: 528Hz Love Frequency
Chris Levine at Houghton HallMolecule of Light by Chris Levine, 2021On a warm October evening we went to the first public showing of 528Hz Love Frequency a series of immersive light installations by Chris Levine at Houghton Hall.
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Gallery visit: Welcome to My World
New paintings by Linda JamiesonLinda Jamieson, Singing in the Toxic Rain 2021, 104 x 104cmLinda Jamieson has used the last eighteen months to create a new body of work, the subject of an all too brief pop-up exhibition in London recently.
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Gallery visit: A Passion for Landscape Rediscovering John Crome
An exhibition of late 18th - early 19th century English landscapesOur 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.