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The Aletheia Collective are exhibiting for the Harwich Festival of the Arts this year by curating a multi-disciplinary exhibition.

The Contributing artists are contemporary and experimental in their approach, employing a variety of media, including painting, installation, photography, assemblage and virtual reality.

For this year's Harwich Festival of the Arts, they have created an interactive exhibition.

The sublime may be defined as awe and wonder when facing that which is beyond our understanding.

Come and meet the artists on the 25th June at the Harwich Arts and Heritage Centre between 11am and 4pm. Gallery at Room 6, Main Road, Mayflower School, Dovercourt, CO12 4AJ.

Further information available on the Facebook events page

28th March 2022

Protégé: A new exhibition exploring artists and their mentors

An exhibition which brings together two artists from the Wingman community at different stages in their careers, one the mentor and the other the mentee, will open on Wednesday 6th April to Saturday 30th April at Frame Workshop & Gallery, 22 St Nicholas Street, Ipswich.

Hannah Aria’s work is featured alongside that of her mentor, Charles Hustwick.

Hannah Aria will present an eclectic range of portraits and earlier resin works, journeying through to more recent neurodivergent perspectives on portraiture.

Charles Hustwick will exhibit work that is categorised by the three main influences on his life and work; travel, people and friendships, and Museums and the history of art.

Further details available on facebook.

8th February 2022

A contrast between beauty and splendour and the domestic maid

Multidisciplinary artist Tracy Satchwill will transform one of the rooms at Normanby Hall into a playful and colourful display, that interprets the role of the maid in houses across England, delving into their perspectives, including hopes and dreams. 

During a six-month artist residency at Normanby Hall in 2021-22, Satchwill was commissioned to create a new series of work that would interpret the collection in new and exciting ways. 

Many servants, as Satchwill says, enjoyed comfortable standards of living in stately homes such as Normanby Hall, however, there were many who were treated as inferior beings, with shocking stories of snobbery, lack of liberty and cruelty. Sadly, there are limited servants’ records at the Hall, it is believed a Mistress ordered the documents to be burnt, as they were perceived as insignificant.

That’s not my name exhibition runs from 4 March 2022 to 4 January 2023 at Normanby Hall, North Lincolnshire.

More at tracysatchwill.com

14th January 2022

Two artists, generations apart, come together in Works With Words

Charles Hustwick and Oliver Murdock are to show their recent work that engages with both personal and global issues of the present moment - Mental Health and The Climate Crisis.

The words layered and embedded in Murdock’s work are records of involuntary inner voices, and the words in Charles Hustwick’s work spell out the names of major figures from the history of our ongoing awareness of the Climate Change Crisis.

Both Hustwick and Murdock are issuing limited edition prints on the occasion of the exhibition and will donate a third of the purchase price to their chosen charities.

The exhibition will show at the White Box Gallery during 6 days only
Exhibition open 11.00 - 6.00
28/29 January
6/7 February
13/14 February 2022

Larain Briggs to exhibit apocalyptic new painting at the Colchester Art Society Winter Exhibition

Larain Briggs will be exhibiting a painting from her brand new series at the Colchester Art Society Winter Exhibition from 4th December - 22nd December at ‘We Are The Minories’ Trinity Square Art Space in Trinity Square, Colchester, CO1 1JR.  Open Monday - Saturday 10am - 4pm excluding the 11th and 18th December. 

Brigg’s work is currently focused on the theme of Jung’s concept of the archetype of the apocalypse. She draws on philosophical concepts of the Sublime and looks specifically to the Romantics for inspiration. This work is intended to be unsettling, disturbing and enticing.

Brigg’s process incorporates digital manipulation of a traditional romantic painting converted back into traditional painting. Her concerns are focused around the epoch of humanity and its impact upon the natural environment, specifically, technology in line with the Romantics response to the industrial revolution.  

20th November 2021

Catalina Carvajal to exhibit work influenced by her migration story – from Latin America to Suffolk

Venue: 142 Gallery, Hamilton Road, Felixstowe, Suffolk IP11 7SD

Dates: Thursday 25 November to Wednesday 1 December, 10am – 4pm

Artist, Catalina Carvajal, originally from Bogota, Colombia, will be displaying a range of work at Gallery 142 in Felixstowe from Thursday 25 November to Wednesday 1 December.

Throughout the exhibition, Catalina will also be painting wall art in her signature eye-catching style – examples of which can already be spotted in Ipswich and Felixstowe.

“My tropical heart has settled down in beautiful Britain, and I hope my exhibition will resonate with people who spot influences from Suffolk which is our common ground.”

10th November 2021

SIMPLE COMPLEXITY: Explore a new immersive exhibition, residency and late nite opening by artist Martin Carter

*** Late Nite Opening Event : Tuesday 23rd November | 6 - 9pm

Artist Martin Carter has taken up residency in the creative space Stoke Bridge in Ipswich, UK. Open Mondays & Wednesdays, 10am - 4.30pm until 29th November 2022.

Five rooms come alive with natural colour and texture; also explore Behind the Art, a story of environmental awareness in relation to human consciousness and our relationships with nature.

The exhibition combines over 70 artworks produced during the lockdown period; showing a mix of photography in a macro style but heavily influenced by Abstract Expressionist painting.

All who attend the Late Nite Opening Event on 23rd November will also receive a password to access unseenbeauty-arts hidden content!

5th November 2021

A new series of events explores how sound, performance and immersive creativity can have a positive influence on your mental health.

GUY CRY CLUB PRESENTS... SEROTONIN SESSIONS!

The first event takes place on FRIDAY, 12 NOVEMBER 2021 FROM 19:30-23:00 at the Smokehouse in Ipswich.

Get your FREE tickets here!

NUZU: Suffolk/London experimental rap group who create an immersive world of narratives through words, electronic production and visuals.

Flo/so: French producer and instrumentalist who blends electronics with a left-field pop edge, through hypnotic beats and modulated vocals.

Fjorten: Suffolk based sound recycler who builds eerie ambient soundscapes from the often forgotten audio of the world around us.

28th October 2021

Laure Van Minden and Chris Dowding to give first live performance of emotive Black Lives Matter project

'Black Lives Matter' was a recorded subscription project - a monthly collaboration between Norwich-based trumpeter Chris Dowding and artist Laure Van Minden.

From September 2020, Chris recorded two tracks each month, each track a playing of the name of someone who has died or been attacked in relation to the BLM movement. Laure responded with artwork, and they sent out two postcards each month to their subscribers, one for each name.

They will perform a selection of the pieces live, with Laure's drawing projected live on Friday 29th October in the Undercroft in Norwich.

Just turn up on the night! It's a free event although donations are welcome and profits will go to a BLM organisation.

27th October 2021

Tim and Katie Christie launch YoGallery to explore wellbeing links in yoga and art

Earlier this year, artist Tim Christie and office-worker-turned-yogi Katie Christie had a brainwave.

After months of Tim’s arts supplies being strewn around the couple’s home, and Katie pondering leaving her corporate career to explore yoga professionally, the closure of a large fabric store in central Wellington signalled a perfect opportunity to merge their interests.

“Initially we thought maybe that’s just fanciful thinking,” Tim says. “And then, when we thought about it with a more pragmatic lens and more audience-centric [lens], we realised, actually, there’s a genuine opportunity here. ”

And so YoGallery was born.

Read the full story here.

In conjunction with Men's Mental Health Awareness Month, Guy Cry Club and Suffolk Archives are supporting FREE wellbeing through art workshops, culminating in an exhibition at The Hold.

Workshops are available Free on the following dates:

Sat Nov 6th 10.00am - 12.30pm Men only
Sat Nov 6th 1.30pm - 4pm Anyone welcome
Sun Nov 7th 11am - 1.30pm Teenagers

at The Hold, ​131 Fore Street, Ipswich, IP4 1LR

Exhibition Launch at The Hold on Thursday 19th Nov at 6pm!