Exhibition

We were in and around Halesworth in Suffolk this week and decided to drop in and see an exhibition at The Halesworth Gallery. Fliss Cary and Tracee Findlater have collaborated on their publication Something Grim. Fliss Cary’s black and white artwork, sits seamlessly alongside Tracee Findlater’s poetic text. The book provides the backbone for their part of what is actually a small group exhibition that includes work by Jack Crampton, and Sally Erb.

Paul and I dropped into the Cromer Artspace on Monday to catch the last day of The Sands of Time: A response to 200 years of coastal change. An exhibition by artist Jayne Ivimey and environmental scientist Andrew Watkinson.

I attended the public launch of the Roger Ackling exhibition Sunlight, at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery on Friday. Ackling is known among artists as 'the guy who burnt stuff' using the power of the sun. This glib description underserves his rich and complex lexicon of mark making developed during a fifty-year career. Ackling's work is at once all encompassing in its harnessing of an element, and led by that process, as well as beautifully detailed and humane in its conceptual approach.

The exhibition has been long in the planning and includes in excess of 150 individual works by 'the artist's artist', poet and teacher, long-term resident of North Norfolk, Roger Ackling (1947 – 2014).

Double Take opened on Friday 10 May and we have already welcomed over 400 visitors to view work by James Evans, Susan Gunn and Tassie Russell.

Issam Kourbaj is a Cambridge-based artist originally from Syria, taking an uncompromising look at his country, following years of conflict. The subject of the exhibition is the current social and political distress in Syria, as its population endures ongoing oppression.

We visited The Courtauld Institute on a recent trip to London to see The Charcoal Heads exhibition by Frank Auerbach, at Somerset House.

And we're off...

We have begun installation in the Stables at Houghton Hall. Here are a few glimpses of the inspiring new work included in the exhibition East to East, opening on Sunday 23 April.

Amanda Edgcombe's current exhibition Loop presents new carborundum prints and gesso paintings where a closer relationship between painting and print making has been developed.

It 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.

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.