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ArtSpace has an ongoing programme of exhibitions and workshops.
Former special events at Cambridge Artworks
2009
‘NOVEMBER 27’
Autumn Open Studios and Charity Exhibition 2009
raising funds for the Cambridge Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society
Friday 27 - Sunday 29 November (Fri 6 - 9pm; Sat 11am – 6pm; Sun 11am – 4pm)
Raffle to be drawn on Sunday 29 November at 3.00pm
Win an original work of art - many prizes to be won! Raffle tickets are £3 each and there will be many prizes to be won! Original artwork will be donated for the exhibition by professional artists from our studios as well as local guest artists. The prizes will be on show from Friday evening, throughout the weekend until the draw, which takes place on Sunday at 3pm in the ArtSpace at Cambridge Artworks. Come along and enjoy a glass of wine, have a look around the studios and spot your favourite artwork! You can also join in the fun when the raffle is drawn on Sunday in the ArtSpace. (If you cannot attend the raffle, and your ticket is drawn, you will be contacted to arrange collection of your prize). |
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Open Studios – a unique opportunity to come and see seventeen working studios under one roof. Visit during the weekend and see a thriving artistic community using a wide range of media, from ceramics, painting, photography and printmaking to sculpture, textiles, and mixed media/installation. Who knows, perhaps you will find that unique Christmas gift for the discerning art lover or the person who has everything. All artists will have their studios open and will be available to discuss their work, so if you don’t win the piece you have fallen in love with in the exhibition, you can always visit the artist’s studio and see what else is on show.
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Raffle Tickets: Tickets can be purchased in advance from Cambridge Artworks. Send us a cheque for £3 per ticket with your name, address and contact number and we will send you your tickets by return or you can just come along and purchase them during your visit. Please see our website for further information.
The Cambridge and Ely Branch of the Alzheimer’s Society was formed in 1997 aiming to give support to those affected by dementia in and around Cambridge. Alzheimer’s disease is the most common form of dementia, but the branch offers support to anyone affected by any form of dementia and to those who care for them. The area of operation covers much of East and South Cambridgeshire where it is estimated that there are about 4000 people affected by some form of dementia.
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A Small Corner of CornwallA Festival of Poetry and the Arts
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Festival Launch and Open Studios Evening
at Cambridge Artworks, 5 Greens Road, Cambridge
Friday, 3rd July, 6-9pm, Lecture at 7pm
The launch will consist of an exhibition in ArtSpace, featuring the work of local artists who have a connection with Cornwall, and Melanie Challenger’s festival lecture. Melanie’s collection, Galatea, was shortlisted for the Forward Prize in 2007. She will talk about the Cornish landscape in the context of global and environmental change. Lecture £3 (Concessions £2). Tickets on the door only.
During the evening, Cambridge Artworks’ studios will be open to visitors and the artists will be on hand to discuss their work. Visitors will see a wide range of media including: ceramics, paintings, prints, photography, sculpture, stonecarving, textiles and mixed media.
Saturday and Sunday, 4th and 5th July
Visitors are welcome to view the exhibition and see the studios on Saturday and Sunday from 11am – 6pm. The exhibition will also be open on Monday 6th from 11am – 5pm. Admission free.
Monday, 6th July
Exhibition continues, 11am – 5pm. Admission free.
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Events at Kettle’s Yard and CB1
Saturday 4th July, 7-9pm: Reading @ Kettle’s Yard.
Penny Shuttle (author of Redgrove’s Wife, shortlisted for the T.S. Eliot Prize in 2008) and Denise McSheehy (winner of the Writers Inc. competition in 2007) will be reading from their work. They will be joined by six commissioned poets who will perform poems inspired by Cornwall and the paintings at Kettle’s Yard.
Cost £5 (Concessions £3)
Sunday 5th July, 11.15am-1.15pm: Workshop @ Kettle’s Yard
A poetry workshop led by Penelope Shuttle. Participants will be encouraged to use the paintings housed at Kettle’s Yard for inspiration.
Cost £20
Sunday 5th July, 8pm: Open Mic @ CB1 Café, Mill Road
Themed open mic in conjunction with CB1 Poetry. Two minute slots for poets to present their own small corners of Cambridge. A chance for poets who attended the poetry workshop to perform some of the poems they wrote earlier in the day.
Cost £3 (Concessions £2)
Monday 6th July 11.15am-1.15pm: Learning to See @ Kettle’s Yard
A workshop looking at how visual artists and writers can share and exchange sources of inspiration. Workshop led by Issam Kourbaj, assisted by poet Helen Mort. Issam is artist-in-residence at Christ’s College, and his exhibition Last Light, First Light (2004) explored light and optics. Helen Mort published the shape of every box in 2007 and recently won a major Eric Gregory Award.
Cost £10
TICKETS: Please note that events at Cambridge Artworks and CB1 have tickets on the door only. For Kettle’s Yard based events, please book via ADC Theatre:
Online: www.adcticketing.com
Phone: 01223 300 085
In person: ADC Box office, Park Street, Cambridge, CB5 8AS
For further details see:
www.kettlesyard.co.uk/education/cornwall
2008
Artworks Charity Event: Open Day and Charity Raffle
Saturday 29 November 12.00-9.00
| Open Day: Come and see seventeen working studios under one roof. Visit during the open day to see a thriving artistic community using a wide range of media, from ceramics, painting, and printmaking to sculpture, textiles, and video work. All our current studios artists will be showing work at the open day. |  |
Raffle: Win some art!Tickets are £5 each and there will be at least 25 prizes to be won! All artwork will be donated by professional artists from our studios as well as invited guest artists. The prize artwork will be exhibited throughout the day, and the draw will take place in the evening at 7.30pm. Tickets will be available fro purchase from the studio artists or from Cam-Mind.
Cam-Mind is the charity we are supporting at this year's event. It is affiliated to, but not funded by, the national charity Mind. Cam-Mind is committed to challenging the prejudices and misunderstandings that undermine recovery from mental health problems. It is the longest established mental health charity in Cambridge – supporting people with mental health problems since 1908. Cambridge Artworks is delighted to be making a contribution to Cam-Mind’s centenary funds.
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2008
OPEN STUDIOS AT ARTWORKS
Two weekends. 11am - 6 pm Saturday and Sunday each weekend
This is a unique opportunity to view seventeen working studios under one roof. Visit during the open weekends to see a thriving artistic community using a wide range of media, from ceramics, painting, and printmaking to sculpture, textiles, video and site-specific work. All current studios artists are showing work, including:
Chiara Mu: an Italian artist who specialises in performance and site-specific work.
Caroline Wendling , whose bas-reliefs worked with paper, thread, cloth and plaster have a rare fragility expressing movement, distance and sometimes, total stillness.
Roger Prime’s tactile textiles consist of delicate layers of natural wool and felt worked and stitched with memories and meaning, encouraging you to reach out and touch them.
Jan Ayton’s walks through the landscape generate narratives with historical, political and cultural connections.
Alexandra Drysdale, recently returned from a residency in the Australian Bush, has new pastel drawings of those wild, exotic landscapes.
Jenny Eadon expresses her feelings for the landscape with large bold abstract canvases
Jill Ogilvy recalls the warmth and colour of Marrakesh and the High Atlas in her new monoprints.
The list goes on, with several more artists producing equally inviting work in stone, ceramic, cloth or paint.
CAMBRIDGE OPEN STUDIOS
Open Studios is when Artworks studio artists open their studios to visitors for two weekends. Artists are present in their studios and happy to talk about their work. Work is on display in the studios and is for sale direct from the artists.
link to Cambridge Open Studios
30-31 May Paintings by emerging young artist!
Georgina Amos
Upstairs in Georgina's studio above the Artspace
Georgina writes:
I am an artist with a studio at Cambridge Artworks and I have been recently offered a place at The Slade School of Fine Art to study an MFA fine art in September this year. In order to attend the course I will need to raise money to pay for tuition fees and move to London, requiring me to empty my Cambridge based studio, which includes a selection of paintings. I am writing to see if you or someone you know would be able to give a home to any of these works! I have enclosed images of available paintings, along with some information about my work in general.
Most importantly, I hope that these paintings will be enjoyed and viewed. In addition to this, a contribution however large or small would be helpful in making it possible for me to pay for my studies!
If you are interested at all, please contact me through email, post or call me, leaving your name, contact details, and the painting you would be interested in! I will gather all offers and the highest bidder will win the piece! It could well be that an offer of £25 would win the piece, so do not be deterred if you would like a painting but it is not within your means to place a big offer. In the other instance, a large contribution will be going to a good cause and will make more certain that you will get what you want!
I have set the final date for bids to be 31st May. I will be opening my studio on Friday 30th and Saturday 31st May from 11am-5.30pm for last minute views of the paintings in the flesh! There will be a box in my studio where you can drop in last minute bids! If you would like to see the work at my studio at any point leading up to this date-do not hesitate to contact me and I will be happy to show you any of my paintings.
Thank you for your time and I look forward to hearing from you!
2007
Open Day and Exhibition with Silent Auction in support of Saturday 8th December 2007 Silent Auction from 10.30am onwards |
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Cambridge Artworks are offering for sale by silent auction a selection of original artwork submitted by Artworks members as well as other professional artists from Cambridge. The auction will be held at Cambridge ArtSpace on Saturday 8th December and 50% of sales will be donated to Cambridge Psychotherapy Assistance Trust. This is a great opportunity to obtain a drawing, painting, print, textile or sculpture from an established Cambridge artist, whilst also making a valuable contribution to a local charity.
Cambridge Psychotherapy Assistance Trust exists to help local people to obtain much needed counselling and psychotherapeutic help, which they could not otherwise afford. Despite having excellent National Health facilities in Cambridge, there remain a number of local people for whom these facilities are not available or appropriate. Those who benefit from the charity include people on low incomes, single parents, and the recently bereaved who often have to deal with a reduced low income and increased responsibility for children.
A Silent Auction works rather like bidding on ebay. Visitors will be invited to make a written bid for their favourite artwork. Bids may be made throughout the day until the bidding closes at 7.30pm when the artwork is sold to the highest bidder. Some of the artwork will be auctioned live at the close of bidding, so it should prove a fun and entertaining evening when the most popular artwork goes under the hammer!
Artists will also be opening their studios to the public on Saturday 8 December, giving you an opportunity to talk to them about their work. So if someone else outbids you for the piece you have fallen in love with, you can always visit the artists’ studios and see what else is on show or commission a new work.
All donated artwork will be exhibited in ArtSpace and the studios will be open from 10.30am on Saturday. Refreshments will be provided throughout the day – come and join us at our Christmas party in the evening.
Cambridge Artworks in Greens Road is open to visitors as part of Cambridge Open Studios on 7/8 and 14/15 July. Ten artists are showing work which varies from painting, sculpture and printmaking to photography and ceramics. Taster workshops for children and adults are being held in ArtSpace both weekends where you can try your hand at ceramic tiles, stone carving, printmaking or drawing. Refreshments available in the courtyard throughout both weekends. Open 11- 6 pm.
Exhibiting artists are: Jenny Eadon, Lizzy McCaughan, Jill Ogilvy, Jan Ayton, Alexandra Drysdale, Nathan Huxtable, Esther Joseph, Alison Litherland, Jane Pryor.
2006
Fundraising art auction for Wintercomfort Shelter for the Homeless
December 2006
Seventeen artists at Cambridge ArtWorks donated work to a raffle of original artwork to be held at Cambridge ArtSpace on Saturday 2 December. All proceeds from the sale of raffle tickets went to Wintercomfort for the Homeless on Victoria Avenue.