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Art Events and Exhibitions
The Sainsbury Centre
The Sainsbury Centre is a world-class art gallery and museum located on campus at UEA. All art events and workshops take place at the Sainsbury Centre unless otherwise stated Opening hours Tue – Fri: 9am–6pm (exhibitions 9.30am–6pm) Sat – Sun: 10am-5pm (incl exhibitions) Closed Mondays, including bank holidays. Daily tours Tuesdays – Sundays 2pm* *subject to availability and change Free for Sainsbury Centre members 50% reduction on exhibition tickets for under 18s, UEA staff, full-time students and Art Fund members In-person Visit SainsburyCentre.ac.uk Email scva@uea.ac.uk Call 01603 593199 Follow @SainsburyCentre
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Tues 10 Jan–Sat 25 Feb, 10.45am–12.15pm
Spotlight Festival
The Sainsbury Centre New Year Spotlight Festival is just the thing to banish the post-Christmas blues. Enjoy art, coffee and cake with a group of likeminded people During this special festival, you will have the chance to join your guide before the tour to enjoy a cup of coffee and a delicious cake in the Terrace Café. Then you will be led on one of the Sainsbury Centre’s popular Spotlight tours, where one particular aspect of the collection will be highlighted, revealing the stories behind the objects, and illuminating unexpected connections Coffee will be served at 10.45 and the Spotlight tour will start at 11.30. Total cost (tour and refreshments) £6, numbers are limited and booking essential To book your place please: Visit bit.ly/spotlightfestival
The Terrace Cafe. Photo: Erin Chambers
Exhibitions
Sun 12 Mar, 10am – Sun 30 Jul
Empowering Art: Indigenous Creativity and Activism from North America’s Northwest Coast
A ground-breaking exhibition of rich but rarely seen artworks, bringing together exceptional contemporary and historical pieces from across the Northwest Coast of North America. Developed in close consultation with Indigenous artists and community leaders from across the Northwest Coast, Empowering Art showcases the talent of their artistic and cultural creations on a scale unseen in the UK since the 1970s
Tickets Please check the Sainsbury Centre website for booking information from 1 February 2023 Sat 18 Mar, 10am – Sun 17 Sep
Julian Stair: Art, Death and the Afterlife
Leading ceramic artist, Julian Stair OBE, presents new works in Art, Death and the Afterlife. Stair offers commemoration and solace for those who have died and lost loved ones through the global Covid-19 pandemic. Stair’s new exhibition personalises the deceased with a selection of ‘embodied’ pots, which contain their ashes within the clay. Stair demonstrates how artistic practice can both mediate loss and celebrate life. Through his work, he invokes the physical and spiritual presence of the deceased Free
Bear Mother Drum, Morgan Asoyuf, 2018, Elk hide drum, acrylic paint © Courtesy of the Artist Julian Stair, Figural Jars, Artist’s Studio, 2022, Photo: Matthew Warner
Wed 22 Mar 3pm, Thu 23 – Sat 25 Mar 7.30pm
Le Spectacle Essentiel: Collage de théâtre et de musique en hommage à Dani Limon
This year’s Sacré Théâtre production will be a homage to the late Dani Limon, UEA French lecturer and performer in UEA French theatre over nearly 50 years. It will consist of a series of scenes and extracts that Dani performed in, or which in some way express her, woven together with text and music. Likely to include work by Feydeau, Genet, Giraudoux, Ionesco, Molière, Sartre, etc UEA Drama Studio Tickets: £7
For more information
Visit sacretheatre.co.uk Email r.w.baines@uea.ac.uk
Free Displays
Come and discover the Sainsbury Centre’s eclectic collection of art, or explore the 350-acre on campus Sculpture Park All activities on this page are free entry and un-ticketed In-person
Sculpture Park
The Sainsbury Centre Sculpture Park is the perfect place to enjoy striking art and the natural environment all year round As well as formal sculpture gardens, the Park offers the tranquillity of the Broad and Yare River Valley and dense urban modernist architecture, designed by leading architects such as Norman Foster, Denys Lasdun and Rick Mather The natural environment includes a wide range of fauna and flora including a number of remarkable ancient oaks and is home to a population of wild rabbits and rare and endangered species
Visit sainsburycentre.ac.uk/sculpture-park
Mirage I and Mirage II, Elisabeth Frink, 1969 Photo ©Andy Crouch
Families and Children
Interactive activities for the whole family to enjoy All sessions at the Sainsbury Centre Studio unless otherwise indicated In-person Visit SainsburyCentre.ac.uk
Free Family Sundays
Drop in on the first Sunday of each month between 10.30am and 12.30pm to look, explore, draw and more, with something new to try each time Free Booking not required, just come in and say hello!
Suitable for all ages
Mini studios
On the third Thursday of each month the Sainsbury Centre welcome babies and pre-schoolers for relaxed, multi-sensory fun. Each workshop includes exploration in the Galleries or Sculpture Park and open-ended play in the studio with one of our associate artists
Thu 19 Jan
Puffing and Blowing with Rach Anstey-Sanders
Thu 16 Mar
It’s Alive! with Rose Feather
Thu 20 Apr
