exhibition archive

For two weeks during March 2025, visual artists Marnie Hardy and Rach Anstey-Sanders brought their Coastal Imaginaries project to Cromer Artspace on the Prom.

6 – 17 June 2024 Michael Horsley is a painter who also makes lithographs. They were made on stones at a print studio in Vác, a small town on the Danube near Budapest, Hungary. Michael would drive there 2 or 3 times a year from his home in Cromer. The Hungarian master printer István Szabó,…

The following artists are part of the Thinking Through Drawing exhibition, 16th May to 3rd June 2024.

Francesca Cant, Kaitlin Ferguson and Hannelore Smith are three artists exploring urban and coastal environments. Key crossovers in their practices include investigations into materials, locality, process and form.

Objects will hover above the ground allowing visitors to walk through and around the them. Sculptures made of black ‘Ciment Fondu’ will emerge from the ground to form a dialogue with both Ether and the visitors.

Landscape and still life have been common tropes for artists for centuries, and are still being exploited through social media, the food images and selfies against exotic backdrops that flood our feeds.

Ruth Butler uses shapes and patterns found in both natural and man made forms, interested in the interaction between chance and control and our emotive response to colour.

This exhibition brings together four artists who are making work with found materials and pigments. Finding and preparing their own materials creates a personal and physical link with particular environments for these artists, who are exploring ecological issues in a variety of ways.

Soft geometric forms and improvised rhythms explore and respond to the artist’s fascination with the subject of painting and art history.

17 until 29 May 2023 Anna-Lise is half Norwegian but has spent most of her life in the UK. She studied Fine Art at Liverpool College of Art, Goldsmiths College and The Royal College of Art, Copenhagen. Anna-Lise’s exhibition is showing large works on paper and canvas plus a selection of small paintings from her…

26 July 2022 until 7 August 2022 Steve Baker is a Norwich-based artist and writer.  He is a member of the Norwich 20 Group and of the national Land2 research network.  Much of his photographic practice engages with the distinctive character and beauty of Norfolk’s woodlands and wetlands, and (as in his current Wall series) with the depletion of the rural environment…

Margie Britz, selected paintings exploring deep time, informed by the geology of the Norfolk