Nunnsyard,Yallops, & Thirteen A are contemporary exhibition spaces for hire. These old shop premises have been sympathetically renovated and modified to provide an eclectic group of unconventional galleries. Our ethos is to enable anyone and everyone to show artwork, hold events and generate conversations about the arts. Exhibitions are outward-looking, and sometimes challenging. However, the space is for everyone, a space for lifelong residents and first-time visitors, a space to be inspired by art and the artistic community. We are expanding our support for the arts with Dyad Creative, who have taken on Thirteen A as a residency space and we have also made some friends in Berlin, The Institut für Alles Mögliche who have the same ethos as ourselves, experimentation and collaboration...
Residencies are available at 13a
Up and coming exhibitions..
Caitlin Cochrane
Nunnsyard
March 19th - 21st
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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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Paint Collective - INTERFACES
Nunnsyard
March 26th - 31st 12pm - 4pm PV Sat 30th 12pm - 4pm
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.