Material Process
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.
Black and White: From the Ethereal to the Concrete
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.
Vanity Monsters Craig Visser
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.
Look Out – Ruth Butler
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.
Post Petrochemical Practices
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.
Stillness in MotionStuart Shearer
13 to 24 July 2023 Recent drawings made whilst travelling through the Norfolk landscape using the visual and physical dynamics of being in motion to generate spontaneous mark making and improvised compositions
Lux: Marion Piper
Soft geometric forms and improvised rhythms explore and respond to the artist’s fascination with the subject of painting and art history.
Anna-Lise Horsley: Mauvaises Herbes
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…
Frances Martin and Richard Cleland
August 31 to September 5 2022 A joint exhibition of artworks by Richard Cleland and Frances Martin, who both have studios at St Etheldreda’s, King Street, Norwich. Instagram: @frances.martin.norwich Website: www.francesmartin.co.uk
Sheila Robinson: Strand
23-29 August 2022 New work in two and three dimensions from Sheila Robinson. Sheila’s work deals with liminal spaces and the transition from one state to another, with the seashore as her subject matter. She lives locally and often makes work based on the beach just in front of the Artspace building! Sheila’s work is…
Two Seas: Two Artists, Niki Medlik and Hazel Burgess
A joint show from Niki Medlik and Hazel Burgess inspired by sea
Out of the Woods: Mike Dodd, Alex Egan, Steve Baker
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…
Looking North: Liz James and Ros Copping
5-10 July 2022 Liz James and Ros Copping: an experimentation with atmosphere, light and colour using oils, watercolour and mixed media.
Margie Britz: Going Nowhere – Getting Somewhere
Margie Britz, selected paintings exploring deep time, informed by the geology of the Norfolk
Cross-sections Michael J Williams
The paintings in this exhibition explore meanings and context through Modernist and Postmodernist approaches to painting. The buildings and the history they imbue act as potent subject matter for the artist’s visual exploration.
It All Starts Here
There were almost 200 original works in our opening exhibition and art auction at the new Artspace on the Prom, all generously donated. Thank you for your support. The auction has ended. All auction winners have been notified of their success and details of how to proceed to collect their work. If you have not received…