ArtSpace has an ongoing programme of exhibitions and workshops.

Forthcoming SPECIAL events at Artworks

5/6th and 12/13th July CAMBRIDGE OPEN STUDIOS - all studio artists at Artworks

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!

Goergina 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!

What is for sale? download Word file with images

Previous Special events in the ArtSpace

Open Day and Exhibition with Silent Auction

in support of
Cambridge Psychotherapy Assistance Trust

Saturday 8th December 2007

Silent Auction from 10.30am onwards
Bidding deadline 7.30pm

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.

Open Studios July 2007

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.

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.