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Visual Arts News Make Your Mark for Curwen The Curwen Print Study Centre in Linton, Cambridgeshire is renowned as the home of Fine Art Printmaking in the region. It
New Gallery for Great Yarmouth
offers adult courses and also runs a highly successful education programme involving school students across East Anglia. But
A new art gallery, showing local and international art, opened on
now it needs your help! The expiry of the Study Centre’s current
the Norfolk Coast in May. The Yare Gallery is located on South Quay
lease in 2024 has opened up an exciting opportunity for
in Great Yarmouth. The building, previously the Nelson Museum, is
expansion. Potential new premises at Great Thurlow, Suffolk
owned by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust, and has now been
offers the chance to greatly expand what Curwen could offer
repurposed as a new, free to enter art gallery for the town. The Yare
artists of all abilities with two studios, a gallery space and room
Gallery’s opening exhibition, WEATHERING: NEW ART FROM EAST
to display and allow access to the renowned Curwen Archive of
ANGLIA, features the work of the Yarmouth 5, artists Katarzyna
prints and documents. The Archive includes prints by leading
Coleman, Bridget Heriz, John Kiki, Emrys Parry and Brüer Tidman,
20th century artists such as Henry Moore, Elisabeth Frink, Paula
in addition to other artists from across the region including Esmond
Rego, Patrick Heron and Prunella Clough. They have raised
Bingham, Anna Brass, Mark Cator, Ali Hewson, James Metsoja and
£85,000 of the £145,000 needed to move in 2022. Their Make
Molly Thomson. The exhibition, running until July 10th, will
Your Mark campaign offers ways to help both financially but also
showcase the work of over 20 artists and feature paintings,
with your time. Help secure the future of Fine Art Printmaking in
sculptures, textiles and ceramics. yare.org.uk
our region. curwenprintstudy.co.uk
Leiko Ikemura comes to the Sainsbury Centre Japanese-Swiss artist, Leiko Ikemura, presents a selection of paintings, sculptures, drawings and photography in her first exhibition in the UK, Leiko Ikemura: Usagi in Wonderland. Running from July 18th to December 12th at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich, Ikemura has chosen 50 works that span three decades of her career. The exhibition’s dominant theme is the connectivity of all aspects of nature, be it human, animal, plant or mineral, in an eternal circle of life. Through her fantastical figures and primeval landscapes, Ikemura explores fragility, transience and slow evolutionary change – choosing to address environmental issues from an empathetic, global perspective. ‘My message is a visual and sensual one, so the viewer could feel it’s very open to interpretation,’ says Leiko Ikemura. ‘The exhibition is not just about the works but making space so people can breathe and be with the works.’ sainsburycentre.ac.uk
