Previous exhibitions

Martin Figura

Work-Space-Work

One of our most exciting photographic talents in the Eastern Region, Martin Figura is a social documentary photographer who specialises in portraiture. In this solo exhibition, shot over a period of almost three years, Martin chronicles Dunstable’s struggle to overcome the economic catastrophe caused by the closure of the All Wheel Drive industrial site in the early 1990's.

D.I.Y.

An exhibition of designs, text and artwork from record labels, art collectives and publishers involved in D.I.Y. production, exploring the contemporary infrastructure for self-promotion, the platform for cultural specialisms, and the appeal of the hand-made object.

Tristan Burfield

Tristan Burfield’s practice incorporates sound, performance, photography and film. The unifying premise is that all aspects explore the potential and limitations of the lo-fi technology used.

Tracing A Path
Renata Grant / Chris Loukes

A double exhibition exploring our routes through the landscape  - featuring Renata Grant's '...to see how far it is' and Chris Loukes' 'Street Zen - a meditative view of city spaces'.

 Aurora - Axel Antas

As part of AURORA, the Arts Centre is host to three video works by London-based artist Axel Antas. Antas’ multi-disciplinary practice encompasses photography, drawing and video.  Please note this exhibition will now finish on the 17th November instead of the scheduled 1 December.

 Aurora - Axel Antas

As part of AURORA, the Arts Centre is host to three video works by London-based artist Axel Antas. Antas’ multi-disciplinary practice encompasses photography, drawing and video.  Please note this exhibition will now finish on the 17th November instead of the scheduled 1 December.

 Strange Fruit
Part of Norfolk Black History Month

An exhibition of images and text arising from Creative Arts East’s The Abolition of Slave Trade project which raised awareness and understanding about the history and cultural impact of the slave trade and contemporary issues around slavery, amongst young people in Norfolk.

Mementos and Masterpieces
Photographic responses to public sculpture and monuments in Norfolk and Norwich

An exhibition by local photographers, amateur and professional, who have tried to capture in two dimensions the interesting aspects of the familiar three dimensional forms around us. 

Zory : Waves

Iranian artist Zory (Farngis Shahrokhi) presents her moving installation featuring images, videos and sculpture exploring themes of personal, individual and mass displacement. From sculptures consisting of 30,000 safety pins or sewn-up masks, through to the central interactive video installation ‘Waves’, Zory examines the status of refugees and asylum seekers.  

Bruce Lacey : My Life In Therapy

A journey through the bizarre world of Bruce Lacey showing his continual metamorphosis in the quest to discover himself, and his use of art as self-therapy. Part of Contemporary Art Norwich 2007.

30years@
Norwich Arts Centre

A celebratory exhibition of the past 30 years of the Arts Centre, featuring memorabilia from its inception as Premises to the present day, including old posters, photographs and press clippings.

Buy Now! Spray Later...

CANCELLED

Original work and rare prints by artists who like to spray a bit of paint about; especially where they shouldn’t. This timely, joint exhibition raises questions of ‘Art’ versus vandalism, and ‘brand’ versus ‘brandalism’, by focusing on the work of Banksy, Anthony Micallef, D-Face and others. Unfortunately this exhibition has been cancelled due to fears of theft of the artworks, following the theft of pieces of Banksy art from a Brighton gallery, and concerns from the owner of the works scheduled to be displayed. We apologise for any inconvenience.

Steve Bell

The Guardian’s award-winning political cartoonist, famous for his ‘If…’ strip which first appeared in 1981, exhibits some of his own favourite strips in a retrospective of his satirical and often controversial work. 

6 Against The Grain

Six artists have been commissioned by Norwich Arts Centre, as a result of an open submission, to produce new work for this exhibition. Each artist explores a different aspect of anti-mainstream culture, using documentary, illustrative or conceptual approaches. They were chosen for both their response to the subject matter and their innovative creative techniques. 

Abandoned Chairs

The results of the open submission photography process of 300 images, selected by and including the works of Paul Kuzemczak. These photographs document the traces of people’s interaction with a place, either accidental or deliberate.  

Collected Passions

‘Collected Passions’ is an exhibition of images, slideshows and interactive DVDs created by a group of very different people who all have two things in common; they all have Asperger’s Syndrome and they all have creative interests such as drawing, photography, playing music etc.

Megan Shaughnessy & Emma Shipton-Smith : 'Pellicola'

For the two artists who work in self-portraiture, ‘Pellicola’ is an exploration into what happens when one moves into the world of the other. This collaborative series of photography and video was created over a three day period on location in Italy.

Dreamlines: Leonardo Solaas

A crowd of autonomous particles drawing your ever-flowing dreams. Enter your words from your dreams and see them emerge before your eyes!

Mike Harding & Sarah Cannell

A Norwich Fringe Festival exhibition, featuring two exhibitions by Mike Harding (A Journey On The Underground and Erosion And The Temporary Landscape), plus Sarah Cannell's responses to the South Norfolk landscape.

Ellen Rogers : Story Boards

Meticulously staged, cinematic noir visions captured in a single photograph - everything in the image is deliberate; the wallpaper is specially hung, chairs are made to exact designs, and the models are carefully selected for their role, effecting a cinematic mise-en-scène.

Art Project - Technology Sketchnology

Tuesday 18 July - Thursday 24 August 2006 : 10am - 7pm
Free

If the computer really is "just another tool", how is it best used? Four artists from the Art Project Still Image course were asked to explore the use of digital technologies within their creative process over a period of eight weeks. This exhibition presents the varied approaches and resulting works.

CNS School - Conversation Pieces

Monday 3 July - Friday 14 July 2006 : 10am - 7pm

Free

An exhibition of photographs by the 'Photo-Group' at the CNS school in Norwich, tutored by artist David Gallant. The group explore their subjects beyond the obvious, looking for visual solutions that ask as many questions as they answer, and that challenge our conventional ideas about how we see life and the world around us. What are we hoping and looking for? And perhaps more ominously, what can we expect to find?

The Visual Art of Mark Mothersbaugh: Beautiful Mutants & Postcard Diaries

Beautiful Mutants & Postcard Diaries features the work of Mark Mothersbaugh, the founding member and driving force behind cult band DEVO, and the composer of soundtracks to The Rugrats, The Royal Tenenbaums and the Life Aquatic, among others. It will be Mothersbaugh’s first major exhibition in the UK, and the first time that both his Postcard Diaries and Beautiful Mutants work will have been shown in the same exhibition.  

Accession - "58 Days In Norwich"

Accession was organized in conjunction with Arts Council England East, Norwich Art Centre and the BCA Gallery.

Accession was a Commission project co-ordinated by Norwich Arts Centre aimed at artists living in Eastern European countries who have demonstrated innovative and exciting new media work.