Details of previous exhibitions

  • helping hands II

    17th Sep 2025

    Back by popular demand from 2024, this exhibition enables our volunteers different styles and personalities to mix and ‘converse’ in artworks..

  • outsiders

    29th Aug 2025

    Photographs by Marc Davenant ‘Outsiders’, a documentary photography project by Marc Davenant which captures a snapshot of homelessness in modern Britain over a six year period.

  • secret art auction

    9th Aug 2025

    Bid online from just £20 and you could own work by a well known artist...

  • Print Cromer 2025

    19th Jul 2025

    Back for its third year, showcasing original prints at Artspace on the Prom and around the town

  • Sculptureatartspace

    28th Jun 2025

    Running parallel to the outside exhibition at the Grove, we have an exhibition at Artspace on the Prom of sculptors’ drawings and maquettes, as well as some smaller works and pieces that are not suitable for outdoor exhibition.

  • Mary blue cornwall water

    12th Jun 2025

    Mary’s paintings reflect upon the impermanence of life and the forces of nature.

  • Landscape

    29th May 2025

    Julie Oxenforth works in sculpture with an added interest in surface and colour, so finds installation art an effective way to express herself. Often working site-specific, she considers the unique qualities of each exhibition space.

  • Nandn katemunro landscape

    14th May 2025

    Working with the N&N Festival, celebrating the 200th anniversary of the RNLI, the exhibition reflects the young people’s response to core themes of the project, including land and water, past and present, and the liminal space of the coastline.

  • graham high

    25th Apr 2025

    This show exhibits a selection of figurative bronzes, concentrating on animal-based sculpture; Next to this there is a selection of his more recent abstract, ‘biomorphic’ sculpture.

  • Scanlab Projects: framerate, pulse of the earth

    22nd Mar 2025

    FRAMERATE: Pulse of the Earth bears witness to a planet in flux. We invite you to observe in another way. To think and feel in another time scale: geological time, seasonal time, tidal time. To contemplate change, and the pace of change. This is a space where your perspective might shift.

  • cromer open 2024

    11th Oct 2024

    An exciting exhibition featuring work by national and international artists selected from the Cromer Open call for submissions 2024.

  • Claire Oxley: Solar

    26th Sep 2024

    Sounding Place originates from listening to the resonances of the Norfolk landscape.

  • art exhibition

    19th Sep 2024

    This show enables the different styles and personalities of our amazing volunteers to mix and ‘converse’ in artworks on the wall, representing the team.

  • Paeony and Jen Fox

    4th Sep 2024

    As the tide retreats, if you stand quietly on the edge of the sea, have you stepped between worlds? When you walk on damp sand where the sea once flowed, do you feel a sense of connection?

  • Print Cromer 2024

    17th Aug 2024

    ‘In the Moment ‘invites printmakers to explore their relationship to the ethereal, transient and perpetual passing of time. Whether past, present or future, ticking clocks or shifting glaciers, ‘In the Moment’ will showcase original prints at Artspace on the Prom and around the town.

  • Margie Britz

    25th Jul 2024

    A site–specific installation of a series of painted floor-to-ceiling hangings which explore Deep Time

  • Jayne Ivimey

    11th Jul 2024

    Jayne Ivimey re-interprets works her 3 x great grandfather, a Norwich School artist, painted in the 1800s capturing the coast before the great changes of the Victorian period.

  • Life Imitating Art (Pablo Picasso: The Legacy of Youth SCVA)

    20th Jun 2024

    Over the last two years, Malca Schotten has spent months in multiple exhibitions at The Sainsbury Centre in her role as a gallery invigilator. Her new work is inspired by her time observing visitors to the exhibitions.

  • Michael Horsley

    6th Jun 2024

    Michael Horsley is a painter who also makes lithographs.

  • drawing

    16th May 2024

    We have brought together work by artists from our region and beyond, showing some ways of using drawing and some of the ways that artists think.

  • grief

    2nd May 2024

    This exhibition coincides with Hospice UK Dying Matters Awareness Week, which focusses on the need for honest, transparent conversations about death and dying, to help people feel informed, supported, and empowered.

  • Cromer Junior School and Gresham Village have joined forces to create art to exhibit with ArtSpace in April.

    18th Apr 2024

    Cromer Junior School and Gresham Village have joined forces to create art to exhibit with Cromer ArtSpace in April.

  • Connect - Keron Beattie

    4th Apr 2024

    The works (artefacts) in this exhibition explore connection and disconnection and the potential of materials to transform, often in response to external forces such as heat or pressure.

  • Rule 4

    29th Mar 2024

    The Artpocket community has selected Rule 4 as appropriate to the ethos of their studios; a freedom to 'play', the joy of happy accidents and the value of the creative process.

  • Hanse in Cromer

    1st Nov 2023

    Hanse Experiments (Part I) brought us into contact with a variety of local people who have influenced the way we think about the Norfolk coastline and the North Sea. In Part II, exactly 12 months on, we are not only returning to place, but bringing together some of different strands and people who have informed the work.

  • Francesca Cant, Kaitlin Ferguson and Hannelore Smith

    21st Oct 2023

    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.

  • colour open call exhibition

    30th Sep 2023

    Artspace on the Prom will be filled with a variety of new and recent work, in a wide range of media by artists from East Anglia and beyond.

  • Black and White From the Ethereal to the Concrete Esther Boehm

    14th Sep 2023

    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.

  • craig visser

    31st Aug 2023

    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, Beach ball, acrylic on canvas

    24th Aug 2023

    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.

  • Yelena Popova

    10th Aug 2023

    Sam Hodge, Liz McGowan, Geoff Litherland, Yelena Popova: Painters who actively search for the more sustainable ways of living and working, building their studio practices away from the consumption of ready made art materials most of which are products of petrochemical industry.

  • print fair

    1st Aug 2023

    Artspace on the Prom and the town will be filled with exciting prints, creating discussion and engagement about printmaking as well as showcasing individual artists and providing opportunities to buy original work.

  • unknown.artists.collective

    27th Jul 2023

    In Cromer, unknown.artists.collective will develop a site-specific work on the beach and directly in front of Artspace on the Prom.

  • Stillness in Motion Stuart Shearer

    13th Jul 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

  • in the end you give in

    29th Jun 2023

    We see more images of ourselves, our friends and family than ever before, and social media is full of filtered and curated images that show our fascination with presenting the best version of ourselves which is as strong as it ever has been.

  • Marion Piper LUX

    15th Jun 2023

    For her first solo show in Norfolk since moving to the region in 2019, Marion Piper will be showing LUX, a multi-part work on paper incorporating drawing and painting which has been made especially for the art space on the promenade in Cromer.

  • Paston College BTEC Art & Design, Summet Rivett

    1st Jun 2023

    Maddy Davidson, Freya Buckingham, Max Fear, Louie Ellis, Lydia Stevens, Summer Rivett, Ava Jablonowski, Abi Jackman, Pearl Knapp-Taylor, Tegan Brown, Laura Hall, Poppy Chenery, Courtney Furness.

  • Anna-Lise Horsley

    17th May 2023

    Anna-Lise will be showing large works on paper and canvas plus a selection of small paintings from her series ‘Plant Forms of the Future’ These paintings combine many layers of imagery including, shadows, Xrays and illustrations in old Botany books.

  • art auction

    24th Apr 2023

    The Cromer Artspace Auction Exhibition 2023 is here; the auction raises money by auctioning original art that has been generously donated by artists. The auctioned artwork is anonymous, so bidders don’t know whose work they are buying until their final bid is successful.

  • NUA perspective

    12th Apr 2023

    The PROSPECT of a collective staff and student exhibition highlights the broad SCOPE of today’s current and emerging artists whose new works will debut in the coastal SCENE of the Cromer Art Space show.

  • Hanse experiment pt 1

    1st Nov 2022

    How, in 2022, do we view the relationship between peoples and places, connected rather than separated, by the North Sea? Can we still find links, traces of a once thriving shipping network? What happens if we reach out to the sea instead of inland? For one week, five artists whose work derives from North Sea coastlines and associated landscapes, will occupy Cromer Artspace in order to collect material for future works and to discuss their potential.

  • Visser

    20th Oct 2022

    Contemporary art exhibition at Artspace on the Prom.

  • City college poster

    7th Oct 2022

    A mixed media exhibition from the students of the pre-degree course 'Foundation Art and Design' at City College Norwich. In their works the idea of 'TRANSITION' is explored, with artworks exploring how we transition from one point in time to another and what that shift is for them.

  • Jeremy Webb Photography

    21st Sep 2022

    exhibition and workshops with photographer Jeremy Webb

  • 2Faulty Group

    7th Sep 2022

    2faulty: If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong.

  • Frances Martin

    31st Aug 2022

    A joint exhibition of artworks by Richard Cleland and Frances Martin, who both have studios at St Etheldreda's, King Street, Norwich.

  • Strand by Sheila Robinson

    23rd Aug 2022

    New work in two and three dimensions from Sheila Robinson. If you are a beachcomber, a rock pool explorer or a mudlark this is the show for you!

  • lorna fellas pathways detour exhibition

    16th Aug 2022

    Lorna Fellas: Blurring the lines between drawing, painting, sculpture and photography

  • NIKI MEDLIK 'Agios Petros', cyanotype on silk

    9th Aug 2022

    A joint show from Niki Medlik and Hazel Burgess inspired by sea

  • OUT OF THE WOODS

    26th Jul 2022

    An entangled magical reality with Mike Dodd, Alex Egan, Steve Baker

  • Half Time

    12th Jul 2022

    A truly mixed show featuring exciting new work from 15 of the current M.A students at Norwich University of the Arts.

  • Three Turnstones on the sea wall

    5th Jul 2022

    Liz James and Ros Copping: an experimentation with atmosphere, light and colour using oils, watercolour and mixed media.