News » Fakenham Contemporary Art 2011

Aug
16

It’s all go….

Well, it’s all go here at Fakenham Contemporary Art 2011 HQ!!

We’re putting the final touches to the publicity for the event, planning the Private View on 7th September and the Arts Activity Day on 10th September, printing our colour catalogue, making improvements to the display and lighting, and ensuring we’re well stewarded every day! There’s an excited buzz around now and we’re all looking forward to the best bit – actually hanging the work and the exhibition coming together.

If you’re an artist in the exhibition, then there’s still time to offer your services in doing a workshop at our Arts Activity Day – just get in touch. And just to prove how people respond when artists do share their time and skills, we had this lovely comment on the website the other day: “will you please email me a programme when it is ready. I came with my family 2 years ago for a variety of art workshops on Saturday. It was wonderful and my children still have some of the art they made. Even I had a go at printing and was very proud of my attempts.”

It’s all coming together really well now, so we look forward to seeing you at the exhibition in just over three weeks time. And tell all your friends – we have the feeling this one is going to be really special!

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Jun
22

Wow!!

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All we can say is WOW! Submissions have now closed but we have been overwhelmed at the response to this year’s exhibition. We are really pleased to report that we have had almost 300 entries from just over 100 Norfolk artists – which considerably surpasses the response in 2009.

Thank you, thank you to all the artists who have submitted their work. You have given the selection panel a very hard task but as soon as the selection has taken place we will of course let every artist know whether or not they have been successful.

So far, so brilliant! We can’t wait for the selection… and then the exhibition. Roll on September!

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Jun
01

Kabir Hussain joins selection panel

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We are extremely pleased to say that we have now appointed the fourth member of the selection panel for Fakenham Contemporary Art 2011: sculptor and photographer Kabir Hussain. As well as being a master founder who has over 15 years of experience casting bronze sculptures for his own work as well as for other leading contemporary artists, Kabir is also a photographer and draughtsman of note. All of these aspects of his practice came together in his 2008 exhibition at the prestigious Sainsbury Centre For Visual Arts entitled Mapping Norfolk. We are very happy to have Kabir on board. Kabir will sit on the selection panel alongside artists Helen Bullard, Debbie Osborn and Keith Osborn.

We are now in the process of receiving from artists their entries for the exhibition. This is always an exciting time and we look forward to a bumper mailbag of submissions before the closing date of 17 June. If you still need to send us your entry please don’t delay – there isn’t long!

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Apr
05

We’re in the Lynn News

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Check out the story in the Lynn News of 16 March.

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Mar
03

Press Release – 2 March 2011

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The second biennial Fakenham Contemporary Art exhibition will be held from Thursday 8 September until Sunday 18 September 2011 in the historic and stimulating setting of Fakenham’s 14^th Century Parish Church. Open to all Norfolk-based emerging and established artists working in a full range of media, this vibrant and exciting exhibition will celebrate the creativity being practiced in our county.

Once again organised and curated by artists Keith and Debbie Osborn, of Hillside Gallery in Fakenham, together with Fakenham Parish Church, the exhibition will present a range of contemporary approaches to art with artists and makers in the county now invited to submit their work for selection.

The exhibition will exhibit work in the following media: ceramics, collage, drawing, installation, painting, photography, printmaking, sculpture and textiles. Selection is by open submission and subject matter is not restricted. A Call for Entries is now available to artists and can be downloaded from www.fakenhamarts.org.uk. The closing date for submission of work is Friday 17 June 2011.

Organiser Keith Osborn commented: “We are excited about the second of what is now officially a biennial contemporary art exhibition based in Fakenham and open to artists all over Norfolk. The first exhibition in 2009 saw nearly 3,500 visitors during the 10 days it was open and the sale of over 30% of the 90 works hung. We are therefore very much looking forward to building on that platform and adding something unique and ongoing to Norfolk’s cultural calendar.

“This is an exciting new venture for the town and will continue to raise Fakenham’s profile on the arts map of Norfolk. There is such vitality and creativity in our county and being able to use this stirring venue to showcase some of the best work of Norfolk’s contemporary artists and makers will make for an exhilarating exhibition”.

The Rev. Adrian Bell, the Rector of Fakenham Parish Church, said: “I am absolutely thrilled that the Church is hosting this exhibition: the vital artistic creativity practiced by those in our community and beyond deserves to be celebrated and where better than in such a living and inspiring venue”.

The exhibition will be open from 10am to 4pm every day from Thursday 8 September to Sunday 18 September 2011 (12pm to 4pm on Sundays) with a special late opening on Thursday 15 September 2011 from 6pm to 8pm. A range of accompanying events will also take place during the exhibition.

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Download a PDF copy of the Press Release here

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Feb
22

Remind Yourself Of The 2009 Exhibition

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We have now posted a reminder of Fakenham Contemporary Art 2009. It was a great ten days which was thoroughly enjoyed by the organisers, the artists and our visitors. And we had some fantastic work in the exhibition!

Which gives us a great benchmark to aim for with this year’s exhibition – and we are going to try our hardest to achieve that.

So remind yourself of our first exhibition in 2009 and look forward to our next in September this year – and if you are a Norfolk artist or maker, remember that you can enter the exhibition and contribute to it’s success!

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Feb
16

Call For Entries Now Being Distributed

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We are now in the process of distributing the Call for Entries online via as many artist distribution lists, websites, galleries and information points as possible. If you are aware of an email distribution list or website that reaches Norfolk artists, please do let us know and we will ensure that we ask them to distribute or post the Call for Entries. Distribution of physical leaflets via galleries, art shops, artists venues etc will begin in earnest in a couple of weeks time.

Don’t forget you can download the Call for Entries and the Entry Form from the website, and the closing date is not until Friday 17 June 2011, so there’s plenty of time to enter.

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Feb
10

Helen Bullard Joins Selection Panel

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We’re really excited to be able to announce that Helen Bullard has joined the selection panel for Fakenham Contemporary Art 2011. Helen is a visual artist, the Gallery Coordinator at Greyfriars Art Space, an artist-led non-profit initiative in King’s Lynn, and has served as a committee member for The North Norfolk Exhibition Project.

Helen joins exhibition organisers and curators Debbie Osborn MA, visual artist and printmaker, and Keith Osborn, artist photographer on the selection panel.

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Feb
09