Tuesday 14th May – Sunday 26th May

‘INSIDEout’

Nolitex is a group of textile and mixed media artists from Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire who are exhibiting new work evoking the spirit of time and place in a garden.

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 28thMay – Sunday 9th June

SMART MOVES

This will be a group exhibition of new art works by contemporary practitioners from UK and Europe, who work across a range of media. Curated by Philip Eastwood

Participants are:
Felicity Shum
Roy Pearce
Katie Smith
Marta Boan
Philip Eastwood

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 11th – Sunday 23rd June

Presented Objects

Using materials that are found within everyday life, Joshua Lockwood re-codes our understanding of the object as unfamiliar or strange. Predominately using items formally used for recording and documenting, they comprise of physical material that underpins our forms of communication. Small interventions scramble the logic of the everyday object; changing their regularity to form new utilities from alternative rhythms.

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 25th June – Sunday 7th July

‘Fragments’

This will be the first solo exhibition by emerging artist Lauren Cooke in her home town of Lincoln since she re-located to London in 2006, where, in 2011, she gained her Masters of Art with Commendation in Fine Art from Kingston University.

Fragments will feature recent painting, sculpture and drawing as well as work created especially for this show.Cooke’s work questions the representation of the human figure in post modern and contemporary art through a fragmentary journey away from the subject and towards abstraction.

This exhibition explores how intimacy can be interpreted as nudity and challenges established perceptions of gender, sexuality and representation. In creating the work Cooke has employed the tradition of life drawing as a starting point, thereby touching upon a vast historical discourse, whilst simultaneously looking to the future and the possibility of the new.

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 9th July – Sunday 21st July

More information to follow soon.

Tuesday 23rd July – Sunday 4th August

SILVER

CCN celebrates its 25 year anniversary.

The Contemporary Crafts Network was formed in 1988 by Kate Naylor-High in Lincolnshire. Originally called Lincolnshire and Humberside Contemporary Crafts, the group aimed to form a self-supporting exhibiting group.

Over time the number of members grew to 25 and in 1997 Lincolnshire and Humberside disbanded as a regional arts board, this paved the way for the group to broaden its catchment area and re name themselves as the Contemporary Crafts Network.

Meetings are held regularly and are more than just business meetings to plan exhibitions and events; they form a vessel for valuable interaction for artists and makers to discuss and exchange knowledge, experience and ideas.

The present group consists of 25 members with specialists in the fields of ceramics, sculpture, felt work, weaving, textiles, silver, gold, jewellery, blown and kiln formed glass, paper, wood and furniture and mixed media.

This exhibition brings together work from all members, the theme of silver will run through the exhibition emphasising this anniversary and celebrating the achievement of working together across a range of medias for 25 years.

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Wednesday 1st May – Sunday 12th May

By-Product Exchange Society

This exhibition comprising small collages, drawings and photographic works by UK artist Alec Shepley, documents the informal or ‘unofficial’ side of his practice. Stretching back over fifteen years of creative practice and referencing partial, cut, defaced or torn images, broken or wonky structures and using fragmentary and fragile/waste materials found on the floor of his studio, gallery stores and in skips etc, these works draw together his ‘workings out’.

In other words, they are the more intimate and reflective by products often made on a domestic scale i.e. on the kitchen table, and in the stolen moments during larger, more formal gallery projects.

These works reflect his concerns around interrupting or diverting the ‘narrative flow’ of the image and provide and insight into his broader project to advance the idea of art as a moment of exchange and resist the notion of the institutionalization or commodification of art.

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 16th April – Sunday 28th April

‘Meet the Artist – Cake and a Cuppa’  Saturday 20th April 2pm – 5pm

‘Open Spaces ~ Secret Places’

Inspired by the beauty of the often overlooked, Tina captures the experience of the Wolds and Coast in expressive visual form.

Works depicted in Oils, Acrylics and Mixed Media . Tina is a member of the Lincolnshire Open Studios ~ ‘Art on the Map’ and her studio may be visited by appointment

detail of larger work

Open daily 10am – 5pm

Tuesday 2nd April – Sunday 14th April 2013

‘Wildlife Art’

“A collection of canvas oil paintings depicting our natural wildlife by Katy Jade Dobson. With simplicity, elegance and attention to detail this series of works are unique in taste. Creating a blend of drama, harmony, presence and dissolve. Peaceful and blatant subjects, punctuated with purposeful marks that are representative of Katy’s style with kinetic and spontaneous overtones. Ultimately aiming to capture the essence of our abundant wildlife amidst elegant chaos.”

Open daily 10am – 4pm

Tuesday 19th March – Friday 29th March 2013

It’s Better to be The Head of a Live Sardine than the Tail of a Dead Trout…

Curated by Paul Cordwell and Jane Rogers

Organised by the third year students studying on the BA (Hons) Education with Art and Design at Bishop Grosseteste University, the group show includes paintings, drawings, photographs and sculptural works, showcasing their on-going practice – a culmination of the study of art and design over a three year period. The divergent work within the exhibition is inspired by the student’s personal issues, visual interests, within a variety of contextual frameworks. Different influences and intentions are underpinned through shared experiences and working collectively within a studio environment.

The title chosen by the students brings to my mind two things, one is a pep talk by my head of primary school just before moving into secondary education – ‘you are a big fish in a little pool, but soon you will be a small fish in a large pool’. The other is a press statement by a footballer returning from a long ban after executing a kung fu kick on a racist supporter in the stand – ‘When seagulls follow the trawler, it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea’. The Head teacher might have been using cliché and the footballer might possibly have been deemed to be pretentious, but they were both getting a particular point across in quite different ways.

Getting a point across is what artists try to do, asking ‘what is the point?’ is a task for us all…or maybe it’s just a case of heads or tails?

Open daily 10am -5.30pm