Contemporary and Country (C&C) present contemporary art and applied art by artists and makers based in East Anglia who celebrate our rural surroundings. C&C's Pop-Up exhibitions frequently forego the art gallery setting, opting for architecturally interesting spaces that encourage visitors to engage with art. The artists and makers C&C work with live and work in the towns and villages scattered throughout the east of England. Through their work they bring about a closer understanding of the countryside, encouraging greater consideration for nature, as its appreciation and preservation becomes ever more prescient to our time.
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EXHIBITIONS FOR SPRING 2024
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HANDMADE FOR THE HOME
Crafted by East Anglian Artists and Makers-
Karen Bek
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Carolyn Brookes-Davies
Carolyn Brookes-Davies graduated from Goldsmiths College, London University in 1980 with a BA honours degree, followed by an MA at The Royal College of Art graduating in 1982. Carolyn is a multi-media artist and maker who lives and works in North Norfolk. She works using repetitive processes, constructing three dimensional objects by conscious sourcing, gathering, collecting and assembling material. -
Steve Gore-Rowe
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Kathryn Hearn
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Stewart Hearn
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Katharina Klug
Katharina Klug describes herself as a potter, artist, business woman and maker and is based in Cambridge. Originally, from Austria and brought up to work with clay - her mother being a well known potter in Austria. Her work as a ceramic artist focuses primarily on the exploration of shapes on the pottery wheel. -
Tim Plunkett
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Ella Porter
Ella Porter is inspired by both the urban landscape and coastal features of North Norfolk. Graduating from the Royal College of Art with an MA in Contemporary Ceramics, she continues to base herself in London. Her present interests stem from a background in painting, printmaking and ceramics. -
Layne Rowe
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Cecilia Willis
Twenty more years in Asia has given Cecilia Willis a profound appreciation of the aesthetic and influenced all her creative work. Cecilia has a need to make; from jewellery she turned to clay and has been throwing at the wheel for 17 years. Returning to England in 2014 she set up her studio in Norfolk.
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GATEPOST
Latest news: artist activities, studio and gallery visits, exhibitions and events-
Gallery Visit: Issam Kourbaj, Urgent Archive
Kettle's Yard, Cambridge 2 March to 26 May 2024 April 15, 2024Issam Koubaj is an example of an artist from another culture, in this case Syria, taking a long, hard look at their own country. This moving installation Urgent Archive at Kettle’s Yard Cambridge is taking place in his adopted ‘home town’. Koubaj has been resident in the UK since 1990, and while initially educated in Damascus he has used his natural ability to communicate across several languages as well as visually as an artist by immersing himself in higher education. He works as an artist, lecturer and writer at Cambridge University. -
Gallery Visit: Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads
The Courtauld Institute, London 9 Feb to 27 May Mar 24, 2024We visited The Courtauld Institute on a recent trip to London to see The Charcoal Heads exhibition by Frank Auerbach, at Somerset House. The exhibition has been heavily trailed on social media. Auerbach’s gimlet gaze stares out from his 1958 self-portrait on the poster. For such a concise exhibition, it packs a punch. It consists of just two rooms of potent charcoal portraits made early in the artist’s career between the late 50s and early 60s. -
Unfurl Opens
Step into Stapleford Granary Cambridge 23 February 2024C&C's new exhibition Unfurl explores botanical beauty by eight artists and makers. It is open today in Cambridge, featuring new and recent work by: Claire Coles, Carolyn Brookes-Davies, Helen Derbyshire, Mark Edwards, Elizabeth Merriman, Tim Plunkett, Ella Porter and Layne Rowe. Unfurl runs until 28 April at Stapleford Granary, 71A Bury Road Cambridge CB22 5BP -
Open Studio at The Crypt
Rosie Phillips meets with visitors to discuss her paintings 8 February 2024Having applied and been offered places at University to study Fine Art, Rosie took stock of her options. She realised that Art School was not what she really wanted at that time. She had already reached out to a number of local artists in and around Norwich and North Norfolk. She entered into informal mentoring arrangements with these successful artists who could encourage, challenge and champion her. -
Norwich School Residency: Rosie Phillips - Close
Looking forward to welcoming visitors to Cathedral Close Norwich 1 February, 2024Rosie Phillips' residency at Norwich School comes to its fruition next week. Having been been resident at The Crypt Gallery at Norwich School since January 10th, Rosie is now completing a number of important works to add to her impressive collection that will be shown during her exhibition "Close" opening on Friday 10th February until the 15th. -
Rosie Phillips Portrait Artist
Norwich School Artist Residency at The Crypt Gallery, Cathedral Close, Norwich 6 January, 2024To kick off our activities for 2024 we're delighted to announce a new Norwich-based artist residency at Norwich School. We have been working in collaboration with Norwich School and Cathedral communities to initiate the residency for portrait artist Rosie Phillips. -
EASTinternational: Unpacking the Archive | East Gallery
Discourse about an exhibition series and its legacy Dec 10, 2023East International was a series of exhibitions of contemporary art conceived and curated by Professor Lynda Morris. She devised East as a means of bringing contemporary art to Norwich at the moment the British art scene was just in the process of opening up. -
Inviting the next generation in
King's Oak Primary School Visit 19 October, 2023Arriving at 10am the pupils entered the two spaces to view the work. As they began, their teacher Rebecca along with newly appointed Learning and Engagement Officer, Jane Hamilton were asked to simply walk calmly through the galleries and look at the exhibits. -
Spotlight: Roger Hardy
Exhibiting with us in "Heads & Tails: Picturing People and Other Animals" 7 October, 2023Roger Hardy is a sculptor based in Suffolk. His sculpture is figurative, made from reclaimed wood, metal and with pigment additions, configured to create the human form. -
C&C's latest exhibiton Heads and Tails launches
Picturing People and Other Animals 6 September, 2023Heads and Tails will be a group exhibition of ten artists exploring the interspecies bonds formed between people and animals and how they look within the home, the workplace or in the wild. The artists propose various disciplines that engage with human as well as animal behaviour and how that is represented in art now. Heads and Tails will open Saturday 9 September, until Saturday 28th October 2023. It will be open Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays from 11am to 4pm with FREE ENTRY. It takes place at The Fermoy Gallery and Shakespeare Barn, St. George's Guildhall, 29 King Street, King's Lynn, PE30 1HA. -
Gallery Visit: Laurence Edwards - Recumbence
The Crypt Gallery, Norwich School, Cathedral Close 3 July, 2023Recumbence is a solo exhibition of sculpture by Suffolk based sculptor Laurence Edwards, centred upon his studies for a single male figure, in bronze, laying horizontally, his head slightly raised, hanging to one side, as if examining his own predicament. The exhibition is at Norwich School, Cathedral Close, The Crypt Gallery -
Ceramic forms imbued with a true sense of place
Marsh Mud Glazed Vessels by Ella Porter 1 July, 2023Drawing upon the unique landscape of Stiffkey Salt Marshes; this collection of works reflect on a sense of this special place through memories of costal walks and observations of the landscape shifting and changing through seasons.
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MEDIA COVERAGE
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Art & Culture in Norwich and Norfolk
Our 2024 Season is Launched 8 March 2024As the 2024 season of arts events opens we are thrilled to be featured in the latest edition of Art in Norwich and Norfolk produced by the remarkable Marion Caitlin. -
Rosie Phillips - ArtRabbit
Portrait paintings and drawings following her residency at Norwich School, 10 January to 15 February,2024 10 February 2024Following her residency at Norwich School, Cathedral Close, Norwich, Contemporary and Country have curated 'Close' an exhibition of recent paintings at The Crypt Gallery. SEE ARTICLE -
Country Life - Heads & Tails makes it as an Unmissable Event
Unmissable Events 11 October 2023We are grateful to the editorial team at Country Life for giving us a mention in the 'Unmissable Events' section on p47 of this week's edition. -
What's On in Norfolk - October Issue
Heads & Tails in The Fermoy and Shakespeare Barn 22 September 2023 -
Arty Facts in North Norfolk
Animal Magic 20 September 2023 -
Heads & Tails exhibition opens in King's Lynn
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Sean Scully and East to East at Houghton Hall
27 March 2023We are thankful to Dominic Castle and his team at Norfolk Magazine for covering the build up to the opening of Sean Scully - smaller than the sky and our... -
An Arty Weekend in North Norfolk
23 March 2023We were delighted to get a mention in the Guardian on 23 March for 'EAST TO EAST' This year promises to be a wonderful opportunity to see lots of art...
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