Wells Maltings Visual Art programme |
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Wells Maltings is an arts, heritage and community centre at the heart of Wells next the Sea. The Maltings offers live theatre, music, film and screenings of national theatre, opera and ballet. The bright and airy café and bar serves fresh, vibrant food during the day, and evening refreshments for events.
The dedicated onsite art gallery, the Handa, is a light and flexible space open to a wide variety of art exhibitions and events. The gallery is open 11am-4pm when there is an exhibition taking place. Staithe Street, Wells-next-the-Sea, NR23 1AU Tel: 01328 710885 | [email protected] www.wellsmaltings.org.uk Twitter @WellsMaltings | Facebook @wellsmaltings Instagram @wells_maltings |
17 May to 4 June 2021
Norfolk Skies : Tim Read Large, gestural oil paintings inspired by the shifting form and elusive focus of the skies over Norfolk. Saturday 12 to Saturday 26 June 2021 EBB & Flow : Jessica Ring and Patrick Rangeley Two photographers with differing styles explore the many shapes and moods of the margins where the sea meets the land. Thursday 1 to Sunday 18 July 2021 Wells of Human Kindness A Wells Maltings exhibition led by Kazz Morohashi with a group of visual artists, performers and writers, creating art from stories of kindness in the local community. |
Debbie Lyddon Salt Pots
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Jessica Ring
Tim Reed
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Past Project : WELLS HERITAGE ART TRAIL
23 June 2018 The first-ever outdoor art trail in Wells-next-the-Sea, North Norfolk, will take place this summer, with a series of fascinating sculptures celebrating the town’s rich and varied history. All the work in the Wells Heritage Art Trail has been created by Norfolk artists specifically for the event which will open to the public on Saturday 23rd June and which will run until the end of September. Commissioned by Wells Maltings, the new £5m arts, heritage and community hub on Staithe Street, and funded by the Heritage Lottery, the Wells Heritage Art Trail will feature 17 artworks by 26 artists (some are collaborations), all of which will be for sale. The Trail has been curated by well-known Wells residents and art experts John and Yvonne Millwood and should take around an hour-and-a-half to complete. Free trail maps will be available from the new Wells Maltings complex, which will also open at the end of June. John Millwood explains: “The Wells Heritage Art Trail celebrates the life of the Wells people of sea and shore, past and present, with each artwork telling its own story. The Trail begins in Wells Maltings and then runs to the harbour, with two extensions: one out along East Quay, and then it jumps a mile along the side of the channel, with two works at the Beach Café and one in the pinewoods.” John adds: “All the works reflect the heritage of Wells. The Art Trail should be appealing to local people and to all those interested in life on the sea and the shore. It’s accessible to all.” The Art Trail will be made up of all manner of media, including glass, wood, metal, stone and rope, with each of the 17 artworks having been created specifically for its own particular site to reflect an aspect of heritage in an appropriate setting. The artists involved in the trail are Kate Allsop and the Wells Ceramic Group, Nick Ball, Nigel Barnett, Tony Bellars, Sarah Caputo and Neal French, Mary Crofts, Kaitlin Ferguson, Polly Ionides, Rachael Long, Debbie Lyddon, Florence North Foster, Linda and Frances Pattrick, Andrew Ruffhead, Andrew Schumann, Gordon Senior, Robert Smith with Heather Tamplin, and Teucer Wilson. The Millwoods selected the artists and chose the sites, while Mary Blue Brady, Wells Maltings’ learning and engagement officer, has also been very busy behind the scenes, working on the logistics and project management of the trail and keeping in regular contact with the artists. Harbour master Robert Smith MBE, the Holkham Estate and Wells Town Council have also all been consulted and have assisted with exact site locations, planning permissions and so on. Notes:
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