Art & Exhibitions

RECENT, CURRENT AND UPCOMING

23 September and 24 September

Earth and Fire

Anglian Potters

Preview Party Friday 22 September 6.30 to 8.30

SPECIAL OPENING TIMES

Saturday 10am to 5pm

Sunday 10am to 4pm

Call for Entries

Norwich Castle Open Art Show 2018 offers artists living in East Anglia the opportunity to show and sell recent work, addressing the theme of Inheritance.

We live with a grand inheritance of architecture and landscape. Many of us treasure objects of personal inheritance that allow memory to endure, making tangible a connection with our ancestry. Less tangibly, we inherit traits, habits and traditions that are important elements of the way we live now.

Inheritance will be shown alongside The Square Box on the Hill, a major exhibition illustrating the history of Norwich Castle Keep and the ambitions for the HLF-funded Norwich Castle: Gateway to Medieval England project.

Entries cost £10 per work
Submissions close 30 September 2017

Postcards for Peace Project

The Friend Ship (a project initiated by SYSTA with local artist Jack Godfrey) is organising an arts project for local residents/artists and displaced people now living in Norwich in collaboration with The Forum Trust.

We plan to:

have a Saturday morning craft and chat club for all groups working with displaced people in Norwichhaving one shared meeting space to meet together in a central location with local artists and spend a couple of hours making new friends and sharing art/craft skills as a two-way process

at the workshops produce postcard sized pieces of art in many mediums (weaving, sewing, embroidery, painting, drawing, poetry, printing, ceramic, glass) completely dependent upon which art forms participants would like to share with each other. New art/craft skills, confidence, team work and spoken English will all be a part of the process. We hope displaced people will also share their craft/art skills with artists/residents who participate, promoting the ethos that we are all the same with skills to share. We hope the workshops will provide a calm, nurturing environment using art to relax and restore a sense of peace.

take some participants to visit artist’s studios in towns around Norwich to produce work which cannot be produced at the Saturday club (e.g. glass)

involve displaced people now living in other new countries (including an artist now living in Athens and a tailor now living in Austria who I met during my ‘Every Life Matters’ project in Athens last year on their journey to new homes)

take part in the Makers Month at the Forum March/April 2018 and have an exhibition of workproduced at the Saturday workshops, plus the opportunity for any participants to demonstrate their craft skills during the exhibition if they would like to, alongside Norwich artists

encourage members of the public to try different crafts at our table during Makers Month and produce their own Postcards for Peace as messages of welcome to displaced people now living in Norwich

tour the work produced at the craft club and during Makers Month throughout Norfolk Libraries to increase awareness and support for displaced people living in Norfolk and the groups who support them

Click here to find out more and to take part