Posts tagged with "exhibition"
One Line @ Jardine
Jardine Cafe & Bistro
Westcott House, 140 High Street, Wivenhoe, CO7 9AF
Private View Monday 7th May, 7.30 - 10pm
Exhibition on until the end of May.
We’re pleased to shout about a new exhibition by our flexible member Mary Pullen. Mary is an alumna of the London College of Communication with a degree in Book Arts and Crafts, currently working as a freelance illustrator and book artist from her studio in East Anglia.
Mary’s illustration work is inspired by everyday forms, both natural and synthetic, and records ‘live’ observations on site and in the moment using a variety of experimental drawing techniques.
Using the opportunity to spend time as Artist in Residence at Jardine Cafe’ & Bistro, Mary is currently making new work to expand her One Line series of illustrations, to be shown in her solo exhibition in may 2012. Mary’s unique and limited edition artist’s books reveal her passion for original and traditional folktales and intriguing superstitions. Content is created using illustrations, printmaking, photography and paper engineering often combined with creative writing prose and poetry. With a mission to pass on traditional skills to one and all, Mary devises and leads creative workshops in bookbinding and book arts for participants of all ages, drawing on a successful career in teaching to create the perfect workshop for each client group.
Mary’s illustration and book art work has been shown in exhibitions including Women in Artists’ Books (London College of Communication 2008), Images 32 (The Association of Illustrators 2009), Mile End Ancestors (English Heritage 2009), Common Ground (Walthamstow Art Trail 2010), Infiltrating the System (UWE 2011) and published in Uppercase Canada (2010).
There is an open invite for the Private View on Monday. Look forward to seeing you there.
Art Exhibition & Sale @ All Saints’ Church
The popular annual All Saints Art Exhibition has delighted visitors for over a quarter of a century. To celebrate its success, they are featuring more than 300 paintings this year, varying vividly in media and subject matter, to demonstrate the skills of over 60 artists.
It’s from the 3rd to the 7th May at All Saints’ Church, Shrub End Road, Colchester.
Opening times:
- Thursday 3rd - 7.30pm to 9pm
- Friday 4th - 6pm to 9pm
- Saturday 5th - 10am to 6pm
- Sunday 6th - 2pm to 6pm
- Monday 7th - 10am to 6pm
Pop down to view local artists work and maybe grab your self a new artwork to hang above the mantlepiece.
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Saturday 28 April – Saturday 23 May
Monday – Saturday, 10am – 4pm / Closed Monday
The Minories Galleries, 74 High Street, Colchester, CO1 1UE
A group exhibition by Jo Addison, Jonny Aldous, Coco Crampton, Sandra Flowers, Des Hughes, Simon Liddiment, Lee Marshall, Simon Newbury and Sarah Staton.
You are invited to view an exhibition of artworks that explore the essence of things through the recreation, representation and reinterpretation of familiar objects and materials
Also new exhibition Perdo, by Amy Turnbull, the 2011 Cuckoo Farm Graduate Winner, will take place at the same time.
Opening view Friday 27 April from 6 – 8pm.
For more information email or call the Minories on 01206 712437.
Illustrator, designer and 15 Queen Street resident Matt Keeling is presenting an exhibition at the Coach House Coffee Shop in Brightlingsea from Wednesday 4th - Monday 30th April.
The show, entitled A Fresh Look At Birds Of Prey will be a colourful graphic explosion of pleasure. We strongly recommend you visit Brightlingsea to enjoy this new collection of work from Mr Keeling.
There will be a private view on Wednesday 4th from 7.30 - 10pm. For more information and to RSVP please email Matt.
Don’t forget! Matt’s work is also currently on display on This One Wall, Colchester’s street gallery. The wall is situated just to the side of the building, read our blog post for more.
Both exhibitions are free and open to all.
Art for everyone
We received an email from Pat Richardson informing us that:
Arty islanders are at it again producing “Art for everyone”.
It’s the time of the year to view the work produced by The Mersea Island Art Group.
Everyone is welcome to come along and enjoy the vast range of brilliant work produced by the local artists. It’s free entry with refreshments available at the Mersea Island Museum. The exhibition is open 10am to 5pm on March 23rd, to the 25th.
For more information call Pat Richardson on 07949132366 or email.
Art on 5
Lawrence Owen
27th February - 24th March
Art Exchange - Art on 5 @ University of Essex
There is a new exhibition on at the Art Exchange gallery based at the University of Essex.
Laurence Owen makes a series of images which are both disturbing and familiar using the supposedly childish medium of felt tips.
He presents a skewed rendition of the everyday, appropriating the language of advertising, photographs and holiday brochures to his own ends. Owen calls his felt tip drawings ‘a newsreel of everyday life’, resulting in images that lie somewhere between the fantastical and the mundane.
Alongside the exhibition is a fantastic series of accompanying events from artists talks, workshops, films and a lunch time tour. Visit the exhibition page for details.
(photos: Matthew Bowman)
Slack Space: From Barsham to Albion
7 March – 24 March
Open Wed – Sat 11am – 6pm
Victoria Place, Eld Lane
Slack Space has secured the entire archive of the seminal and pioneering East Anglian Albion Fair movement of the 70’s and 80’s for their new exhibition.
The exhibition is a retrospective and joyful celebration of the legendary Albion Fairs.
A collection of beautiful and iconic posters, photographs, films and assorted memorabilia from the fairs, including the ultimate monthly newspaper of alternative East Anglia, the Waveney Clarion.
Comfort was far from the norm (ask anyone who attended an Albion Fair about the infamous “long drop” toilets!) the music was sometimes dodgy, there were often far more naked people than one really wanted to encounter at the water standpipes in the morning. But the real ale and the vegan food was always plentiful and there was something quite special in being part of several thousand people gathering together in our little corner of rural England to live for a weekend in peace, love and harmony.
Sadly, the festival movement was a mirror of the times. The relative tolerance of a “free festival culture” by government in the late seventies and very early eighties had given way to a far more repressive regime. Free festivals could no longer flourish due to the new public order acts which banned gatherings on public land, and The Albion Fairs were no more.
Good thing the Colchester Free Festival is bringing this movement back.
There will be a viewing and celebration from 6- 10 pm on Saturday 10th March.
They will be showing some special documentary films, with musical and street theatre offerings from the period.
Mulled wine available, otherwise bring your own drink and make an evening of it!
Light and Dark @ Slack Space
We popped down to view their new exhibition ‘Light and Dark’.
A themed show featuring the work of local artists producing imaginative and high quality interpretations of the theme in a variety of media. Mainly wall based work, there are some stunning photographs that capture the brief perfectly.
Light and Dark features work from:
Eddie Bacon
Paula Vans
Andy King
Alexander Blustin
Stefanie Moss
Anthony Freeman
Sheila King
Stephen Waring
Jack Brown
Elin Evensen Eleanor Hilsden
The exhibition also has a double bill show in one of the side rooms entitled - ‘Primary 2’. Primary 2 follows on from their first Primary show featuring work from Myland Primary School, Stanway Primary School, Millfields school, Essex Home Educators and Colchester High School.
This is a charming display of work from the young artists featuring drawings, paintings and we even spotted a paper mache breakfast. We like!
Come and join Slack Space at their new premises at Victoria Place on Eld Lane Wednesday to Saturday 11am - 6pm.
