Colour Revolution
Trevor Burgess

image: Hounds of Death (after Titian), oil on canvas, 92 x 100cm.

23rd June - 4th July
Private View - Saturday 28th June, 14:30 - 17:00

Open daily, 11:00 - 17:00
Closed Sunday. Free admission.

This exhibition follows on from Burgess’ recent talk “What Colour is That?” presented to the Norfolk Contemporary Art Society.

“In this series of paintings, I have experimented with inverting colour. Red becomes green. Blue becomes orange. Yellow becomes purple. And the tones are also reversed. Dark becomes light and light becomes dark...

...The catalyst was political. I made the first painting in inverted colours in a state of shock on the day after the UK referendum vote to leave the European Union in 2016. Brexit materially and emotionally affected my life and my family. I made a painting that brought together the personal and political impact in one image in which the colours were inverted. For me, inverting colour used the element that is intrinsic to painting as a means of opposition and critique. It changes the way we see. It expressed my disorientation and alienation from what was happening in my own country...

... Making these paintings undid my habits. But what effect do they have on the viewer? ”
— Extract taken from 'What Colour is That?'

If you would like to read further about the background to these paintings in inverse colour you can do so here…

Artist’s website.

depARTment
Norwich School Art and Design Staff

12th - 20th July

Opening times:
Monday - Friday, 12:00 - 17:00
Saturday - 10:00 - 17:00

Closed Sundays. Free admission.

This exhibition brings together the creative work of the Norwich School Art and Design staff.

The pieces on display are a selection of outcomes that we undertake alongside our teaching, something we consider vital in supporting both our pupils and our own creative integrity.

Within this exhibition you will encounter artwork which could be considered our main individual creative practice alongside more experimental approaches, work out of discipline and also work in progress.

As a department we teach our pupils across a wide range of media and disciplines; the work on display echoes this approach.

Poster Design: Liza Goian

Contemporary Landscape
Alison Dunhill

19th - 30th August

Open daily 11:00 - 5:00
Closed Sundays. Free admission.

Pathways

2nd - 15th September
Private View - Saturday 6th 14:00 - 16:00, including a poetry reading by Poet Jonathan Ward at 14:30.

Open daily 11:00 - 16:30
Closed Sundays. Free Admission.

Drawn together for Pathways, five visual artists and a poet show works arising from immersion in the landscape.

Exhibitors:

Future dates to look out for:
August 2025 - Reepham Artists and Makers
September 2025 - Norwich 20 Group