Upcoming Exhibitions
OAT EAST Art Exhibition
9 — 13th July
Private View Tuesday 9th, 6.30 — 8pm
Open Wednesday — Friday, 10 — 2pm
Saturday, 10 — 3pm
Free admission
Celebrating the amazing work of students from Ormiston Victory Academy, City of Norwich School and Ormiston Venture Academy.
Anglia Textile Works presents ‘Contemplation’
16 — 27th July
Open daily from 10 — 4pm
Closed Sundays. Free admission
Find out more about the artists at the Anglia Textile Works website
STARFIELD
John Cox, Installation and painted star maps along the Milky Way
16th — 22nd August
Friday 16th, 11 — 4pm
Saturday 17th, 11 — 4.30pm
Monday 19th - Wednesday 21st, 11 — 4pm
Thursday 22nd 11 — 1pm
Closed Sundays. Free admission
The installation puts up eight panels intended as a background for children's work in a short term exhibition display Climate Change All Change at the former Museum of Childhood, Bethnal Green. The panels show the constellations along the galactic equator, some not visible from the northern hemisphere, some not visible from the south, forming a whole planet circuit of constellations, science based and without astrological signification. However, the opening of the show coincided with Covid restrictions introduced March 2020 and the exhibition was withdrawn. The panels were to have had sections cut out to accommodate the foreground displays, but the panels were never installed and remain in the uncut condition in which they are now shown.
The panels show the brightest nearby stars viewed along the galactic plane. The stars are shown coloured violet to red according to seven classes of spectrum, violet to red. The complete circuit of the galactic plane is shown, and some panels overlap where they were to have met the foreground displays. In the present show painted star maps are introduced into some of the gaps between panels.
The layouts for the panels were made with drawings from the astronomical catalogue imaging program Starry8 written by Richard Monkhouse in collaboration with John Cox. Those drawings were squared off and scaled up to the boards. All the painted starmaps seen in this show began this way.
Post War Norwich,
Leslie Davenport & Bob Fox
Late August — Early September
Exact dates and information to follow shortly.
Post War Norwich will be an NCAS sponsored exhibition at the Crypt Gallery, Norwich School, to be curated by Keith Roberts and Selwyn Taylor. Make a note in your diary and watch this space for more details.