NUNNS YARD

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All past exhibitions in all spaces..

 

 

Anna-Lise Horsley & Tina Hagley
 
www.instagram.com/hagleytina/
 
www.instagram.com/annalisehorsley/
 
Nunnsyard
 
May 14th - 19th
 
T&L poster Nunnsyard
 

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“Human touch, Process, Materiality, A sense of place, Memory, Impermanence,

Fragmentation, Re-enchantment, Barriers, Identity, Voice.”

Nunnsyard
 
May 1st - 3rd
 
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NUA
 
Nunnsyard
 
May 7th - 10th
 
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Elizabeth Kozmian
 
Nunnsyard
 
May 11th - 13th
 
Invitation from Elisabeth Kozmian to the launch of her Poetry book with drawings xx3 copy
 

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Paint Collective - INTERFACES

Nunnsyard

March 26th - 31st 12pm - 4pm  PV Sat 30th 12pm - 4pm

FINAL VERSION GREY PAINT COLLECTIVE INTERFACES EXHIBITION copy

Paint Collective - INTERFACES.

The separateness (or aloofness) of artists’ works perceived in studio and one person shows may be subtly changed when their works are exhibited in a group context. Painterly concerns linking form, scale, colour, surface, process, narrative and subject matter might reveal common issues that may challenge or extend familiar modes of individual contemporary practice.

In our digital world we are now more consciously interconnected than before; an apparent whole world context is offered through internet television, film, social media and data centres, at any-time, in many places. This ‘whole world’ resource opens up new possibilities of engagement with individuals and groups that are both local and virtual.

This exhibition brings together a group of artists working in East Anglia who regularly meet to discuss painting and critically support each other’s diverse approaches to art practice.

Bev Broadhead’s paintings take on the challenge of editing and filtering the overload of visual and sensory material that surrounds us all, transforming the familiar to make expressive sense of our place in the world. Her voting booth is populated with ‘autochthonous’ imaginings.

Jan Crombie’s observed and imagined everyday events are subsumed into a new reality through narratives that could be seen as ‘stills from films’ though like fake news these films didn’t exist but offer a glimpse into another creative and sometimes surreal dimension.

Rosie Greenhalgh’s paintings emerge from the forces of chaos and order, which mirror how she balances her desire for freedom and the urge to control and structure each work, a dynamic tension at the heart of her creative process.

Colin Nicholas’ paintings re-imagine his experience of obsolete saturated colour slide film formats by presenting selected digital snaps as acrylic paintings on stretched linen: objects that now are always on, illuminated by pigmented colour relationships.

Sue Nicholas’ paintings are inspired by scientific investigations of consciousness as a fusion of patterns. Her paintings playfully develop, collide and displace geometrical and optical formats through vibrant acrylic colour interactions. The small paintings use the idea of circuits as the theme.

Nick Powell’s oil paintings explore how colour, layering, brush stroke and chance transform pictorial spaces and surfaces. His inspiration comes from daily exposure to the limitless nature of contemporary information, focused by his experience of studio practice.

Brenda Unwin’s paintings demonstrate three things: an acute concern for colour relationships, qualities of light and a sense of place. Abstraction based on memory allows her to suggest rather than depict. The application of paint; active or still, transparent or saturated can be equivalents to the reality of noticing shifting light, rock formations, or the fragility of snow.

 

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Maisie Moffat
 
Nunnsyard
 
April 2nd - 4th
 
Final Poster

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Caitlin Cochrane

Nunnsyard

March 19th - 21st

I S   I T

 

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Is it? An exhibition challenging the interpretation of art, presenting works considered ’bad’ by the artist, displayed with a nonconformist approach. 

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Saskia Van Woerkom

Nunnsyard

March 22nd - 24th

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Emily Simmons

Nunnsyard

March 15th - 17th

CONNECTION copy

 

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Becoming Thing

Lee Grandjean, Laura Bygrave & Alex Crocker

Nunnsyard

March 1st - 10th PV 1st 6 till 9

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This exhibition has come about after a year or so of reciprocal studio visits between the three of us. We all live either end of a long, narrow lane named The Moor in the Norfolk town of Reepham. The Moor is a word that derives from the Old Dutch word ‘mere’, a lake or pond; a boggy wet area. It evokes thoughts of primordial times, when things crawled out of a wetland. Those strange half-fish half-mammal creatures, incubated for thousands of years in the mud, eventually flopping onto the dry land to begin existence as a new creature. This made us think of Lee’s sculptures, presenting themselves as strange genderless hybrids, afflicted but defiant. We talked about them as characters just moving through, caught mid stride, lugging themselves along, working themselves out as they go. A snap shot on their evolutionary journey, still becoming a thing. This idea of a body in flux is carried into Laura’s paintings and sculptures where she dismantles the body as a way to think about an expansive psychic reality. Laura’s paintings and sculptures are cut up, reconfigured, stuck together again and over-painted using pigment and glue. Constructing an image or form like this lets her present the body in fragments, in a process of metamorphosis. For Alex it is less about the becoming and more about the entities around us. His more recent paintings are concerned with the naming of things, as if beginning again. Recording what is around him, a personal mythology of animals, cars, plants and people. A dictionary of day-to-day subjects as account of his surroundings. He sees his practice as a form of prosaic psychedelia where his everyday experiences are filtered through the medium of painting. We are all interested in beginnings, stumbling evolutions, the provisional and the transformative process of making. This exhibition is the first instalment of several potential shows making concrete studio conversations between the three of us.

Lee, Laura and Alex, 

Reepham, 2019. 

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TBA Collective - TBA .001
Curated by Erica Horton
 
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Featuring 
Ingrida Bagdonaite
Rob Terrestrial
Harriet Catchpole
Chris Richford
Richard Wood
Liam Ashley Clarke

Nunnsyard

February 21st - 24th

instagram @tba_artist_collective

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FLUTTER
 
Jake Francis
 
13a
 
23rd - 27th December
 
www.jakefrancisart.com
 
FLUTTER
 

 

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Taverham High School
 
Nunnsyard
 
13th - 15th December
 
Exhibition Poster (3).pdf final copy

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Kristy Campbell
 
Nunnsyard
 
7th - 9th December
 
Exhib Poster

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State of print
 
www.cultureireland.ie/gb18/event/state-of-print
 
http://stateofprint.com/
 
Nunnsyard & 13a
 
19th - 28th November
 
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Harriet Smithson
 
Nunnsyard
 
8th - 11th November
 
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Mike Goddard
 
Nunnsyard
 
28th - 30th September
 
Psyche in Scorpio poster

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Nunnsyard
 
21st - 23rd September
 
Norwich led collective, bringing you the latest events with a mix
of live DJ sets, art and various pop up shops
 
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Em-Re-Un
 
Nunnsyard
 
5th - 9th September
 
Consume Poster 3-01

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Issy Mitchell
 
Nunnsyard
 
24th - 26th August
 
Tidal Verse I.M

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Nicky Deeley & Bruce Ingram
 
Nunnsyard
 
Preview 6 – 9pm Friday 17th August 2018.

Exhibition continues the weekend of Saturday 18th - Sunday 19th 11 – 6pm. 

www.bruceingram.com

www.nickydeeley.com

 
Ever Changing Moods INVITE
 

Nicky Deeley and Bruce Ingram invite you to a joint exhibition of sculptural works that explore both artists shared interest in Ikebana. 

Ikebana is the ancient Japanese art of flower arranging. The name comes from the Japanese ike, meaning ‘alive’ or ‘arrange’ and bana meaning ‘flower’

Both artists are interested in the formal qualities in the making of an ikebana arrangement, the power and precision in the handling and display of nature, alongside the philosophical meaning and concept behind a creation.

For this experimental exhibition, Nicky and Bruce will place nature central in the creation of new sculptural works. To start the project both artists will collect and forage seasonal flowers and foliage from gardens and allotments in Norfolk, this living material will form the basis of the artworks on display. Leading up to the show opening, both artists will work together in the gallery, taking over the space as an experimental studio. Working instinctively and collaboratively the gallery will become a three dimensional sketchbook, with ceiling, floor and walls activated by an impermanent display of colour and form, sense and movement. 

Both artists have researched the topic through the many textbooks and instruction manuals on the subject; the visual poetry in the composition of flowers is often anchored in an instruction, occasion or purpose for creation. Acknowledging the poetic notion of these texts, Nicky and Bruce have invited artists and friends to write and exchange instructions as starting points to visually interpret with materials and nature.

‘Ever Changing Moods’ acknowledges the meaning and sense of occasion in the exchange of a flower arrangement but also the impermanent nature of the project. The exhibition will document a temporal and fleeting moment only witnessed in the moment of its creation. A celebration of the natural and a sculptural exercise in balance, composition, precision and placement.

 

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Ian Rout
 
Nunnsyard gallery
 
3rd - 5th August
 
B movie poster 013 colour smaller

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Georgina Neil 
 
Thirteen A
 
20th - 21st July
 
Poster 1 copy

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" Once Bitten "
 
Maria Pavledis
 
Nunnsyard
 
5th - 11th July
 
Once Bitten PosterFINALFINAL-2

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Diana Diamond and Jon Page
 
Nunnsyard
 
30th June till 4th July
 
Animal Magic

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Jade Anderson
 
Nunnsyard
 
25th - 28th May
 
Study poster-01

 

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Ginny, Viv and Ruth
 
Nunnsyard
 
16th - 20th May
 
Exhibitionflyer
 
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Ruth Knapp
 
Thirteen A
 
17th - 20th May
 
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Bethany Freer
 
Nunnsyard gallery
 
11th - 14th May
 
U20pia Final Print b

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Fran Kennedy
 
Nunnsyard
 
7th - 10th May
 
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Sarah Jane
 
Thirteen A
 
2nd - 5th May
 
Selloutfinal

 

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 Emma Hampson

 Nunnsyard
 
24th - 26th April
 
Poster

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Oliver Payne
 
Nunnsyard gallery
 
20th - 22nd April
 
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Obscura Darkroom
 
Nunnsyard gallery
 
12th - 15th April
 
Exhibition
 

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Charlie Barkus
 
Nunnsyard gallery
 
4th - 8th April
 
Housegroundplan 2018
 

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Emilia Symis

Nunnsyard 
 
30th March - 2nd April
 
Razzle Dazzle

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Pushkinism

Nunnsyard gallery

23rd - 24th February

PV    Friday 23rd  5pm till 9.30

www.eveningnews24.co.uk/what-s-on/norwich-collage-artist-to-showcase-his-eclectic-art-in-city-exhibition-1-5380696 

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Emma Scothern, Billy Parkin and George Armstrong

Nunnsyard gallery

19th - 21st Feb

Interrupted poster

 

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Sacha Baldwin presents CONNECTED

Nunnsyard gallery

12th - 18th February

PV     12th     6pm - 8pm

Connected poster

 
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Alice Lambert and HanHee Shin

Nunnsyard gallery 

8th February - 10th February

PV   9th Jan   5pm - 9pm

Exhibition poster

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Take 5 Exhibition

Nunnsyard gallery

December 2nd till 7th

T5 plus Exhibition.pages copy

Over the past 30 years Take 5 has by various means collected / acquired / come across / been given / found / even bought... an eclectic gallimaufry of art works... that the proprietors would like to find homes for.
So snap up a bargain, or just come and say hello.

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JULBORD

Paul Bommer

Nunnsyard gallery

November 24th - 26th

JulbordRed-lores

 

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Print to the People

Nunnsyard gallery

Printers' Devils: An Exhibition of Letterpress work by these 5 fine Devils:

Jane Kemp
Paul McNeill
Amy Muddle
Jo Stafford
Vanessa Vargo

 

 

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Opening Times:
Friday 17th November: 11am - 5pm & 6-9pm (preview)
Saturday 18th November: 11am - 5pm

 

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Norwich PV

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Ballot.

Norwich university of the arts in collaboration with Crawford college of art and design. Invited .... Cork printmakers, Print to the People and Limerick School of art & design Tuesday 10th till 14th 12.00 to 18.00
PV Thursday 12th Oct 19.00 till 21.00 

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Mandy Rogers

Nunnsyard gallery

October 2nd - 8th

Private view    Monday 2nd    6pm - 8pm

Fragment 6-final-2pdfw copy

 

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Alec Cummings & James Metsoja

Nunnsyard gallery

www.aleccummingart.com

www.jamesmetsoja.com

September 25th - 30th

Private view    Wednesday 27th    6pm - 9pm

Seeing things poster 11
 

 

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Nunnsyard gallery

September 14th - 17th 

10 years invite print

 

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Jackie Potter

Nunnsyard gallery

July 28th - 31st

Pamphlet 2 copy

 

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LGBT Festival

Nunnsyard gallery

July 21st - July 26th

SceneSeen copy

 

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Katherine Gilmartin

Nunnsyard gallery

July 12th - July 19th

Poster.0

 

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Kate Knowden

Nunnsyard gallery

July 7th - July 11th

FINAL POSTER 

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Exit Press

Nunnsyard gallery

June 23rd - June 25th

SOMETHING FINAL PRINT

www.exitpress.co.uk
 
hello.exitpress@gmail.com

 

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Robert Nicol

Nunnsyard gallery

June 15th - June 18th

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~ Robert Nicol MA RCA
 
www.robert-nicol.co.uk
www.instagram.com/iamrobertnicol/
www.dutchuncle.co.uk
www.nouvellesimages.nl

 

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Rise up

Nunnsyard gallery

May 29th - 7th June

David Mabb copy

 

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Michael James Lewis & Tazelaar Stevenson

Nunnsyard gallery

May 26th - 28th

SQUALL

 

 

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Letting Go

Diane Archer, Lesley Bennett, Bev Broadhead

Tricia Hall, Juliet Hayward, Natalie Odile Lang

Tim Mellors, Helen Otter, Sara Ross

Christina Violet Sabberton

Curated by Mark Scott-Wood

Nunnsyard gallery

May 20th - 25th

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Letting Go – Artists Statements

 

Tim Mellors The work documents construction of an artist's studio and a parallel transition from the making of a space to the future activity within it.

Lesley Bennett A shoulder blade caught by the curved, barbed fluke of an anchor symbolises how our fear can fasten us down, however, if we turn our thoughts to creativity, there is winged release……..we can let go ….

Sara Ross From Rachmaninov to Hendrix. As the people of Russia migrate from the East their culture and identity changes - portrayed within their families as small movements of their bodies, signifying "death" .

Natalie Odile Lang Pardesi. Pardesi (Punjabi word for foreigner or distant)was painted in 2009 in my first year at Norwich art school. It depicts the shy 6 year old me. I have chosen to show this painting to mark the departure from my usual practice of painting landscape as a way to explore and ruminate on internal processing. Pardesi has become a tool for me to re-frame reality, it takes me up-close to my process of alignment and sets an intention to a commitment to self.

I choose to let go of the story that has underpinned my identity.

I choose to let go of outside influences and opinion that have imprinted a strong impression.

I choose to return to the truth of self.

Bev Broadhead The two paintings shown are based on a story about an imaginary, evil bird who lets go of its victim after drinking fermented fruit, drunk on its own success, his prey escapes. 

Juliet Hayward Preconceptions. These photographic collages describe the process of letting go of, literally, the preconceptions I held of what my imagined child/ren would be.  

Helen Otter Letting go of anything is not always as easy as it sounds. Ideas, feelings become concrete, refuse to be liberated, heavy, stubborn and needing accommodation. A little smoother and shinier and they'll be perfect!

Diane Archer No Animals from Abroad. Walking alone on an exploratory journey in my new city, in my home country of Canada after living 9 years in England. Everywhere I look I see and compare the old with the new. Nothing measures up, even in my memories. I cannot let go of the past. I am an animal from abroad, wherever I go.

Tricia Hall Don't Speak, Just Breathe. For me the title 'Letting Go' is an invitation, to see how it feels to say less, to gently 'let go' of any narrative at all.

  

 

 

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Emily Furber, Viv Allen and Ruth Brumby

Nunnsyard gallery

May 18th - 19th

A5.exhibition poster copy

 

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Mayuri Mistry

Nunnsyard gallery

April 27th - 30th

Nunnsyard poster 3final final

 

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Mixed Art Show

Nunnsyard gallery

Private view on Saturday 15th April at 5pm to 7pm
Open daily from 10am to 4pm until Saturday 22nd April

'Mixed Art Show' is a group art exhibition of photography, paintings and textiles respectively by Andrew, Geoffrey & Tom Unwin, Peter Lely, and Genevieve Rudd

Poster finale copy

 

 

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Sarah Lake & David Greeves

Nunnsyard gallery

April 10th - April 13th
David Greeves & Sarah Lake POSTER copy

 

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Nicholas Powell

Nunnsyard gallery

April 6th - April 9th    PV 6th April 6pm - 9pm

NP Nunns Yard copy

 

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Jack Mackenzie

Nunnsyard gallery

April 1st - April 3rd

Poster - Polepole

 

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Nunnsyard gallery

March 24th - 31st    PV Friday 24th 6pm - 9pm

PAINT BODY PAINT POSTER final 01

 

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Oliver Payne

Nunnsyard gallery

March 18th - 21st

EoO

 

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Words And Women, Print To The People & Clare Jarrett

www.wordsandwomennorwich.blogspot.co.uk

Nunnsyard gallery & 13a 

March 6th - 11th

City of women ONLINE LOW RES EDIT

 

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Louise Webb

Nunnsyard gallery

February 27th - February 28th

 

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Move your homeland

Nunnsyard gallery

February 20th - February 25th

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Bethan Kerridge

"Pop My Mind"

January 31st - 3rd February 

www.popmymind.com/intro


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Lily Troup & Sarah Lancaster

Nunnsyard gallery

January 9th - 11th    PV Tuesday 10th  5pm - 8pm

Screensaverseflyer

 

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Nunnsyard gallery

Ellie Brine

January 2nd - 4th

 

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Paul Bommer

"A winters tale"

Nunnsyard Gallery

24th November - 27th November

AWintersTalePoster-lores

 

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In between things  

Michaela D'Agati and Naomi Harwin

Nunnsyard gallery

17th November - 19th November

PV 17th November

An investigative exhibition examining the shared dialogues and playful methodical approaches towards rationalizing and engaging with forms, objects, and shapes in relation to spatiality.

Drawing awareness towards a constant exchange of interactions, relations and interchangeable states of object-hood, the works are haptic and spatial things that acknowledge and negotiate their surrounding structures and the significance of the spaces between. 

InBetweenPoster
 

mdagati.co.uk

www.naomiharwin.com

 

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Bev Broadhead, Natalie Odile Lang and Tricia Hall

Nunnsyard gallery

4th November - 12th November    11am - 5pm

Nunnsyard Nov 2016

The narrative that acts as a backdrop for this exhibition Why one stroke when a hundred will do, is the meeting of three artists Tricia Hall, Natalie Odile Lang and Bev Broadhead, who in 2012 spent a week’s residency working together. This opportunity for professional self development was initiated by previous semi formal discussion meetings where their work was critiqued and discussed. They meet again here in the Nunnsyard exhibition space to show their recent work.    For these artists - making decisions, problem solving, reflecting, destroying, making and taking away, looking – all manner of physical and mental turmoil and glee occurs. The process most often occurs in isolation and is a lone pursuit. Linking with other critical minds, as with all professions, allows the creative output to speak for itself and to find its own place alongside other works.    Questions and commonalities emerge as each piece jockeys for space and prominence. For the artist, this is an interesting situation to be in. For the viewer, it’s hoped, also.

A new series of sculptures and images have emerged from Tricia Hall's auto ethnographic response to the impact of diagnosis, treatment and recovery from serious illness. Consistent with the pared down aesthetic of her previous work, uncompromising yet ambiguous forms are screen printed or constructed using wood, Jesmonite and concrete. 

Returning to work and a daily commute along Norfolk's impossibly direct Acle Straight, she has begun to re-acquaint herself with the objects that manifest as infrequent events in a sparse landscape. It is how these familiar events seem to correspond to parts of her own body and road to recovery that informs her response to the entirely unfamiliar experiences of her recent past.

Natalie Odile Lang has made a series of new paintings developed from the title “the fiction of dirty realism”. Natalie is painting on to pre existing landscapes, opening debate into authorship/ownership,  transformation and the changing  view. Her themes have been informed and developed from research and enquiry into the new geological age of the Anthropsean Epoc.

“These works are all on borrowed, found or bought prints that all ready exist and have an author. By way of an invasion of paint, ideas and college I change the narrative to encapsulate the reality of the times we are living in”.

Bev Broadhead is presently focussing on forms possibly found around her and reproduced as marks trapped in, and made by paint. By obliterating and remaking a background she isolates and fastens a form, freeing it from its natural environment, while at the same time fixing it in another space and time - the 'essential connection between spatiality and being'.

 

 

 

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Michael James Lewis

Nunnsyard Gallery

24th October - 31st October

www.michaeljameslewis.com

 

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EMERALD MUTTON
STEPHANIE DOUET

Nunnsyard gallery

20th October - 22nd October

PV 20 October  6 - 9PM

EXHIBITION OPEN 11 - 5PM  21 - 22 OCTOBER 2016

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Unruly Maharajah 2016 Acrylic on board 30cm x 30cm

EMERALD MUTTON explores misrepresentations, misunderstandings and subversions in the imagery of 'princely India' during the Victorian era.

When she first came across the photographs, Douet had an eery feeling of personal connection with the portraits through their vertiginously mesmerising eyes. The familiar reposes about photography drifted through her mind - the sitter and photographer negotiating presentation, costume, pose and background; the photographer looking through the hooded aperture, his minuscule reflection in the eyes of the subject; the various production outcomes of size, overpainting, purpose - the image becomes a carte de visit, a potter, part of a book. But ultimately, for Douet, painting was an act of magical eating.

'Emerald Mutton' is a stockpile of paintings and overpainted photographs inspired by reading Sean Willcock's 'Composing the Spectacle', an account of the 27ft long group portrait of the Imperial Assemblage in Delhi in 1877. Victorian artist Val Princep found that his attempts to make life-studies of maharajahs for his gigantic painting were thwarted by the princes who, fed up with being expected to play the British imperial game of exchanging portrait gifts, barely gave him time to knock off studies of their profiles with a bit of shiny sleeve for good measure.

'Unruly Maharajahs' is a set of small portrait heads taken from archive photos. Their direct gaze is negated by painterly devices that inhibit engagement, as the subjects refuse to play the role of decadently dressed foreigners in need of colonial care. Indian portraits were traditionally executed in profile, meaning that the Indian subject's gaze remains within the world of the painting, unlike the gee of classical European portraits which engage the viewer with stances of submission and domination.. And there is also the 'darshan' gaze of the Hindu deity which is reciprocal - you behold the god and the god beholds you.

Three large overpainted photographs of princes and political agents show the two societies confronting each other. The princes in silks and jewels, the agents of the raj in their trimmed and tasselled finery, facing each other with unreadable expressions.  The instinctive discomfort generated by these confusing but dramatic images is expressed by Douet's overpainting of vapourous non-specific forms that express an ineffable tension between the figures.

The third part of the exhibition is 'Bollywood Mindmaps', the artist's attempt to make a meeting-place where different images and ideas can meet and thrash out some co-existence within the world of the picture. Their composition is based on posters where scale, tone and order shout their various claims at the viewer, and on mind maps where pieces of ideas float in space, making both random and ordered relationships.

With thanks to Sean Willcock of the Paul Mellon Institute for information about relevant Victorian images and reading material.

 

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Anna-Lise Horsley

Recent Paintings

Nunnsyard gallery

12th October - 16th October    11am - 5pm

Private view     12th October     6pm - 8pm

BOUNCE  2015 110 x 80 cm.

www.anna-lisehorsley.webs.com

lisehorsley@gmail.com

 

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"Plenty of time to lose your balance" 

Molly Thomson, Sophie Marritt, Clare Jarrett, Barbara Howey

Nunnsyard gallery

5th October - 9th October    11.00am - 6.00pm

PV Thursday 6th October  6.00-8.00pm

Discussion with the artists (in the gallery): 2.00 Saturday 8th October

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The four sets of work exhibited in plenty of time to lose your balance reflect in different ways ideas of transition, change and transformation - states of being or becoming which can seem both hope- ful and insecure. The exhibition is the result of conversations between the artists.

Barbara Howey’s series of paintings looks at the self-presentation of Goth girls and boys. The Goth sub-culture explores hyper-femininity in both genders. The boys seem comfortable in their guise whilst the girls appear somewhat precarious. Their costumes are elaborate and sexualised, yet in many cases their body language is self-conscious and awkward. They appear uncomfortable in their assumed identities, off-balance and unsure.

Through a process of cutting and re-shaping, Molly Thomson interferes with the stability of the rec- tangular panels she starts with, working until the pieces have established new contours. Allowing drawn elements and other components to slide into relationship with the panels she has recently been bringing together real and fictional spaces. She is interested in how the painting-objects act upon one another, generating temporary propositions, provisional what-ifs.

Clare Jarrett is interested in transformation and objecthood. Her current preoccupations are ideas of “the domestic”, of home, cohesion and disintegration. She is investigating gender distinctions and disappearance. The materials she uses, often discarded and/or collected, hold personal signif- icance. She is interested in how objects are connected and ideas about how we decide what we value and what we throw away.

In Sophie Marritt’s film the footage has been shot by a phone camera on a bus journey from down- town Los Angeles to LAX. The camera response time is too slow to keep up with the passing road- side, cars and landscape beyond, giving the film a rhythmic pulsation. This rhythm, combined with the repetition of lamp posts, concrete verges, windows and palm trees, needed a soundtrack and so, still at an experimental stage, the video is played with ‘Walls of Jericho’ and ‘Eddies Out’ by Cabaret Voltaire.

 

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Supraliminal

Nunnsyard gallery

27th September - 2nd October

A collection of artistic works giving an incite in to the perceptions made when an influence sparks creativity and evokes a response.

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Telfer Stokes

Nunnsyard gallery

23rd September - 25th September    11am - 5pm

Private view    Thursday  22nd    5pm - 9pm

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www.telferstokes.com 

 

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"We put some art in a room"

Nunnsyard gallery

September 16th - September 18th

PV    Friday 16th    7pm

Nunn's Yard Poster

 

 

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Berlin kommt nach Norwich...

Yallops, Nunnsyard and Thirteen a and Barber shop (Dyad creative)

14th September    5pm - 10pm

karl heinz jeron / www.jeron.org
ilse ermen / www.ilse-ermen.com
andres montes / www.espacio-naranjo.com/andres-montes/
stefan riebel / www.stefanriebel.de

plus others...

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To welcome the British art show to Norwich, Nunnsyard is opening a new gallery showing 8 local artists for our first exhibition. Opens Saturday 25th June from 5pm till 9pm

Building Art Spaces 8 artists

Nunnsyard Gallery

Opens Saturday 25th    5pm - 9pm

25th June - 9th July

Wednesday till Saturday    11am - 5pm

Joni Smith, Michael James Lewis, Marcus Williams, 

Joe Mouser, Ben Alden, Jody Annellis,

Jim Castle, Margie Britz.

  

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Jenny Swindells

Nunnsyard

April 29th - May 5th

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www.jcswindells.com

 

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The Science of Destruction

Jay Manchand and Chloe Fisher

20th April - 24th April

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SIGN LANGUAGE

New Works by Palser, Pounds & Ridge. 

Yallops, Nunnsyard and Thirteen a

25th March - 28th March

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  Richard Palser                                                                                                  "A screen-based work reflecting the locality." 

 

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Christine Leech & Jayne Bushell

Nunnsyard

March 16th - March 19th

 

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Charli Vince

Nunnsyard

21st February - 24th February

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www.charlivince.com

 

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Fragile

Yallops, Nunnsyard and Thirteen a

25th October - 2nd November    11.00 - 17.00

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www.ccn.ac.uk/news/creative-arts-lecturers-work-featured-fragile-exhibition

 

 

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Yallops - Grid: Tazelaar Stevenson
 
Nunnsyard - Flatwork: Curated by Tazelaar Stevenson & Alice Lee

16th June - 22nd June    11.00am - 3.00pm

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Presence of Absence

Mihaela Colibasu and Sasha Smith

Nunnsyard

12th May - 13th May    PV 12th May 12.30 - 13.30

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As part of the Dandifest, artist Karl Somers

Back in Ten Minutes

Nunnsyard    31 St Augustines street

30th April - 10th May

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www.karlsomers.wix.com

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Billie Merrin and Emma Rushton

Nunnsyard    31 St Augustines street

28th April - 29th April

PV    28th April    5pm - 8pm

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Home Sweet Home

Sophie Purchase and Esme Harris

Nunnsyard    31 St Augustnes st 

31st March - 1st April    PV 1st April 5 - 8

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Recent Works

Barbara Howey and Molly Thomson

Nunnsyard and Thirteen A

31 and 13a St Augustines st    NR3 3BY

24th January - 26th January

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PV invite Britz+ Merriman

 

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 Andrew Hornett

17th - 23rd November

Nunns yard

 

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Daniel Clegg

The Infinite

21st - 30th September

Nunns Yard

 

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The conceptual concerns of the work relate to an awareness of the infinite on both the spatial and temporal scale and suggests the cyclical and symmetrical relationships present in these dimensions. Contextually drawing influence from process led art and Abstract Expressionism, the work intends an aesthetic that references microphotographic and telescopic images.

This process driven piece incorporates a multitude of gestures and movements in its production. The physicality of the creative act transfers considerable energy into the work which can offer a perpetuating visual and narrative engagement with the piece. The colours used offer distraction from the terror of infinity.

 

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Nunns Yard

Spanner. Plank. Tool.

Daniel Pounds

7th June - 11th June 

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Nunns Yard

Confabulation

25th April - 26th April

A collection of works that subvert our preconceived ideas of comfort. Objects and conversations can have many more readings than we realise; the trace of an object or symbol and its history remain perpetually and therefore cause us to question their place each time we encounter them. The exhibition will bring together a group of pieces, both 2D and 3D, that cause the audience to fill in the gaps the pieces create with prefabricated ideas that one believes to be facts. Ultimately we aim to explore our social and societal links to objects and actions we come across in the everyday.

 

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Nunns Yard

Samantha Bedford & Claire Brace

Time of my life

22nd April - 24th April

 

Time of my Life is a collaborative exhibition by Samantha Bedford and Claire Brace, both year 2 Fine Art students whose work primarily focuses on individual experiences surrounding mental health.  A mixture of drawings, textile and installation. 

 

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Claire Brace

My work focuses around the theme of mental health and grief, and how the two can affect each other. As depression and bi-polar seem to be hereditary in my family, spanning at least three generations, my work revolves around this. I believe that the physical act of creating this work is therapeutic, examining the issue of loss – the process of creating the work is just as important, if not more so, than the work itself. 

 

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Samantha Bedford

There is a certain stigma surrounding mental health.

My work is strongly based on how my depression affects me.

The ambiguity of my work requires the viewer to examine the collection and to form their opinion of what the work represents.

 

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Nunns Yard

Emma Jones

16th April - 21st April

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Memories. We all have them, whether good or bad they are there. Plaguing our dreams and brightening our dark hours. A simple smell, colour or song can flood our minds with a simple yet satisfying recollection of a life that was, is and will be ours. A viewpoint that is remembered that way only in our minds. An experience shared but only seen that way by us. Colours smells and sights flooding back to us.

To me a memory is a flood of colour, a single moment in time represented by a single colour. Good or bad, fresh or old.

 A photograph can bring back a flash of recognition, a moment of recollection, and a longing for what no longer is. A 7x5 rectangle of pure memory represented by a single colour.

 

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Nunns Yard

Beth Morrison

12th April - 14th April

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Nunns Yard

Thea Field and Jasmine Gaze

3rd April - 8th April

 

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Real Exhibition

Nunns Yard and Yallops Gallery

16th March - 19th March

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Nunns Yard

Julia Cunningham    6th March - 10th March

The 'Atlas of Julia'  take a stroll in my brain.

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Martin Perring    25th February to 27th February    2013

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Holly Chatburn   17th January to  25th January    2013

This exhibition was constructed on-site and made of scrapings of beeswax tinted with makeup, which then cling onto my hap-hazardously constructed framework of chicken-wire. I make organically inspired sculptural installations which contain a multiplicity of possible interpretations.

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Amy French    26th November - 10th December    

My practice aims to highlight the paradoxical notion of impermanence - it's role as the only constant. This piece is an inquiry into materials defining my position in the work as mediator. 

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Helen Piffero   7th November - 14th November

If i were a painter i wouldn't paint this painting. I predominantly work with acrylic paint on canvas using the human form as a subject.

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Tristan Burfield

15th October - 20th October

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Chalk & Cheese by Tony George

St Augustines Festival

An Installation at Nunns Yard and Yallops gallery

12th October - 14th October

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Gary S Holt:  Screen Prints

20th of September to 14th October 2012

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Atoms for Peace - Gary S Holt Silk - Screen Print

 

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2012 The London Olympics come to Norwich

An Installation at Nunns Yard 

27th July - 12th August

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Michael Ridge

22nd June - 28th June

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Tanya Cook

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An Installation at Nunns Yard 

The Cubicle and Trumpet

15th June - 30 June

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UBSURDIST

An Installation By Bogdan Bogdanov 

Like many Polish artists, Bogdanov confronts the spectator with the absurd, clearly the cubicle is a ‘cubicle’, but a BB flat Bass is not a trumpet. Yet thinking of it as a trumpet one might be tempted to consider the destruction of Jericho.

However, like many poles of his generation, Bogdanov is not merely trifling with his audience. The Art critic David Hill commented on the work as defining air and space, seeing the two objects representing, on one hand, a still and contained volume of air, and on the other, an object which has the potential for moving a volume of air.

Bogdanov was, of course, deeply moved by the political unrest during the period known as ‘Solidarnosc’. One thinks of the clandestine meetings in candle lit cathedrals, though I’m not quite sure how the BB flat Bass comes to represent the State, perhaps just by being full of wind? But in considering it as a musical instrument, one can’t help noticing that it lacks a mouthpiece. One is again reminded of the dark period of State repression when the Krakov philharmonic orchestra where unable to play, having run out of violin strings!

For us to consider this work as a comment on the human condition, would doubtless cause Bogdanov to chuckle, as we are left with an ambiguity, Who is the winner, the State, or the individual? Bogdanov gives us no answers, but two objects with which to entertain ourselves with questions of confinement, solitude, futility, hopelessness, and, of course, wow! what would that sound like?

Opening Times are Varied 

 

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Jan Keene

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