Contemporary and Country (C&C) present contemporary and applied art by artists and makers from East Anglia. C&C's Pop-Up exhibitions frequently forego the art gallery setting, opting for architecturally interesting non-gallery spaces that encourage visitors to engage with original handmade objects and works of art. The artists and makers C&C work with celebrate their surroundings, and bring about a closer consideration for nature, as its appreciation and preservation becomes ever more prescient to our time.
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GATEPOST
Latest news: artist activities, studio and gallery visits, exhibitions and events
New Exhibition - One Self: The Creative Life of Colin Self
Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery - 29 March to 21 September 2025Mar 3, 2025The Castle Museum and Art Gallery's capsule retrospective exhibition titled One Self, by the artist Colin Self has been long awaited. Although he has been generous enough to show small selections of his original drawings, collages and prints with us at C&C in our Pop-Up exhibitions, and he has contributed individual works regularly to international shows about Pop Art, Colin rarely shows his work at scale in museums.Mary Blue's Call Out For Art in Conversation
Art in Conversation at the Suffield Arms 19 March 202529 January, 2025Inspired by Gertrude Stein and celebrating 150 years after her birth, Mary Blue - an artist we a re thrilled to have supported for may years, is inviting all art lovers and 'art curious' to a special event "Art in Conversation" at the Suffield Arms, Gunton, North NorfolkGallery Visit: Bruce McLean, I Want My Crown
Modern One, Edinburgh, 29 June 2024 to 23 November 2025Jan 3, 2025Bruce Mclean has had a long and productive career, the exhibition coincides with his 80th birthday. His work has helped re-define the role of the artist, and how an artist might inhabit what they do in the later half of the twentieth century.Gallery Visit: Martin Battye, Beer Mat Paintings
Original Projects, at PrimeYarc, Great YarmouthDec 2, 2024Original Projects, overseen by curators and cultural producers Kaavous Clayton and Julia Devonshire, opened their latest exhibition by Martin Battye on November 22nd. Martin has had a long career as a respected abstract painter, as well as an industrial designer, producing large-scale abstract paintings. Beer Mat Paintings runs from November 22 to December 22 2024.Go Rosie!
Rosie Phillips - Contestant in Sky Portrait Artist of the Year 2024Nov 20, 2024Norfolk-based portrait artist Rosie Phillips featured in last night's episode of Sky Portrait Artist of the Year. Rosie triumphed and reached the semi finals - huge congratulations to her. Stephen Mangan presented the programme in their search for a star portrait artist, alongside returning judges, artist Tai Shan Schierenberg, independent curator Kathleen Soriano and art historian Kate Bryan. The sitters included Heather Mills, Kevin McCloud and Martha Kearney.Landscape in the tradition of the unconventional
More highlights from Lay of the LandOct 23, 2024Leading the way into the Lay of The Land
Seven painters who explore the East Anglian regionOct 11, 2024The show includes some well-known as well as some less experienced landscape painters who treat the coastal reaches of Norfolk, Suffolk and Essex as an uplifting experience, and not as flat and uneventful as East Anglia's reputation suggests! Each represents their own vision of how distinctive individual components of the coast can be, as the shore unfolds mile by mile.Ceramic sculptors and makers in Lay of The Land
Breaking down the boundaries between contemporary and applied artOct 2, 2024One of the key components for C&C’s latest exhibition Lay of the Land and the reason so many visitors have praised the quality of the work in the exhibition is the significant contribution made by artists and makers working in ceramics.Gallery Visit: Fliss Cary and Tracee Findlater, Something Grim
The Halesworth Gallery, Suffolk 27 July to 21 AugustAug 2, 202427 July to 21 August Fliss Cary and Tracee Findlater, Jack Crampton, and Sally Erb at Halesworth Gallery. Fliss Cary uses charcoal or pen and ink drawings to respond to the landscape she is familiar with around her district on the perimeter of Norwich. Hedgerows attract her attention, being both barriers as well as homes to small creatures and birds. Hostile and yet sheltering.Gallery Visit: Jayne Ivimey and Andrew Watkinson, The Sands of Time
A response to 200 years of coastal change 11 to 22 July 2024 at Cromer ArtspaceJul 23, 2024Post lockdown Jayne Ivimey and Andrew Watkinson have been working together, following in the footsteps of nineteenth-century landscape artist James Stark*, who accessed hard to reach places along the Norfolk coast between Sheringham and Lowestoft two hundred years ago, recording what they found at each location, now. The exhibition at Cromer Artspace collates their research which has been thoughtfully compiled and clearly displayed within the long space of this pretty Art Deco gallery, tucked in under the cliff at the end of the Cromer Prominade.Gallery Visit: Roger Ackling, Sunlight
Norwich Castle Museum & Art GalleryJune 1, 2024I attended the public launch of the Roger Ackling exhibition Sunlight, at the Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery on Friday. Ackling is known among artists as the guy who 'burnt stuff' using the power of the sun. There is a new book, Sunlight, published to accompany the exhibition, which will be touring to Henry Moore Institute Leeds and Pier Arts Centre Orkney in Scotland in 2025.First week of Double Take: James Evans, Susan Gunn and Tassie Russell
Four hundred in four days, visit The Crypt Gallery15 May, 2024Double Take opened on Friday 10 May and we have already welcomed over 400 visitors to view work by James Evans, Susan Gunn and Tassie Russell.Gallery Visit: Frank Auerbach, The Charcoal Heads
The Courtauld Institute, London 9 Feb to 27 MayMar 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 in Cambridge
Step into Stapleford Granary Cambridge23 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 5BPRosie Phillips Portrait Artist, The Crypt Gallery
Norwich School Artist Residency at The Crypt Gallery, Norwich6 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.C&C's exhibiton Heads and Tails launches in King's Lynn
Picturing People and Other Animals6 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.
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What's on, What's Good & Where to Go!3 October 2024Our latest exhibition 'Lay of the Land: East Anglian Landscape Now' is featured in the new edition of North Norfolk Living. We are grateful; to editor, Amanda Loose and her...Lay of the Land on ArtRabbit
As featured on the country's leading art directory25 September 2024Our latest exhibition 'Lay of the Land: East Anglian Landscape Now' was featured on the UK's leading Art Directory ArtRabbit on 25 September as we opened the galleries in King's...KL Magazine - North Norfolk
Lay of the Land: The East Anglian Landscape Now25 September 2024We are grateful to the KL Magazine team for this article that was published in the September edition of this popular local magazine. In it they encouraged readers to explore...Life & Times in Norfolk October 2024
Celebrating a Unique East Anglian Landscape20 September 2024Huge thanks to Emma Lee and her team at Norfolk Magazine for their feature in the 'Life & Times' section - p157 of the newly published October edition of Norfolk...Art & Culture in Norwich and Norfolk
New Exhibitions across the region6 September 2024As the 2024 season of arts events comes to the end of 2024 we are delighted to be featured in the latest edition of Art in Norwich and Norfolk produced...Eastern Daily Press
An art exhibition celebrating the East Anglian landscapes set to open in King's Lynn22 August 2024Country Life - Heads & Tails makes it as an Unmissable Event
Unmissable Events11 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.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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