Category: North Norfolk Exhibition Project

Residency opportunity

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PROFORMA is proud to present COMPASS; a year-long collaborative residency project connecting four visual artists across Norfolk and Greater Manchester. COMPASS will support four visual artists, two from each region, with residencies and exhibitions at Cromer Artspace and Rogue Artists’ Studios from November 2025 to November 2026. The project includes regular mentorship sessions, workshops, and talks, along with introductions to curators, artists and organisations in each region. 

Over the year, COMPASS will support the creation of new, critically engaged work by combining coastal, urban and rural perspectives. The project marks a new model for inter-regional artist-led collaboration for PROFORMA, promoting climate-conscious practices and inclusive, community-focused engagement. COMPASS supports a vision of creative practice that is slow, critical and relational, allowing the selected artists time to reflect, experiment and engage deeply with new contexts and communities. 

Norfolk Artists Open Call: 

We are seeking two visual artists based in Norfolk through an open call from 15th August to 22nd September. The open call is for artists working in any medium and career stage with an interest in collaboration and experimentation. We will host an in person and online session to introduce PROFORMA, COMPASS and answer any further questions artists may have. 

Timeline: 

1st August to 22nd September: Open Call for two Norfolk based visual artists 

1st September: PROFORMA meet up and introduction to COMPASS (Cliftonville, Cromer, 6pm) 

15th September: Virtual PROFORMA meet up and introduction to COMPASS (email to book a place) 

29th September: Selection of four COMPASS artists (two from Norfolk and two from Greater Manchester) 

Artists must be available for the following dates: 

Residency part one: 1st – 16th November: Cromer Artspace Residency 

Residency part two: 28th February – 15th March: Rogue Artists’ Studios 

Cromer Open Call

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You are invited to submit artwork for the 2025 Cromer Open

Now in its 5th year the Cromer Open attracts hundreds of visitors from far and wide who know that it will showcase exciting contemporary work from across East Anglia and beyond. Exhibition 15th to 31st October 2025.

Each artist may submit up to three pieces of work.

This should be new work, not previously exhibited. Original work in any media will be considered.

2D and 3D work should not be more than 200cm in any direction.

The work will be considered anonymously by a panel of practising artists and independent curators: Chris Bailkoski, Polly Binns, Craig Barber, Ruth Philo, Jill Sheridan, Brenda Unwin,

Work will be welcomed from artists anywhere, but selected artists will be responsible for insuring, delivering and collecting work.

The closing date for submissions is Tuesday 2nd September 

There is a non-refundable submission fee of £5 per artwork.

We do not charge commission on sales during the exhibition.

Cromer Artspace is a charity and Artspace on the Prom costs us £12,000 a year to run. We need the submission fees to ensure that we can stay open.

However, we will be able to support submissions from a percentage of artists who cannot afford the submission fee.

We will be very pleased if you are able to pay forward to support an artist who cannot afford to pay the fee or to contribute to our new ‘Bursary Fund’ to support emerging artists.

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Cromer Artspace Opportunity

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Print Cromer 25: The State of Play

Curator Heather Guthrie

The State of Play invites printmakers to probe where we are now via block, stone, plate or screen.  

How does your work register the state of play in your life today – as an individual, in your relationships, through preferred places or personal possessions? Perhaps the state of play, in the bigger picture, prompts your visual response to global affairs? Humour, playfulness, mischief or subversion may also feature. Can you resist the void? Do you bite unruly lines in the margins? Or, is your literal state of play mark-making with inky fingers? 

Closing date 9th May.

More information here

New workshop for 2020

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The North Norfolk Exhibition Project will be running a series of workshops in the run up to Cley 20.

The first of these workshops will be a relief and lino printing workshop in February.

Print Workshop with Ros Copping

Come and experiment with relief and lino printing. There will be a focus on pattern and colour in response to a piece of writing.

15 February 2020

Cley Village Hall , The Fairstead, Holt NR25 7RJ

10am – 3pm

To book please email Kirsti Crofts contemporaryartcley@gmail.com

Cley Christmas Fair

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CALL FOR DONATIONS

Members of the Cley Contemporary Art committee are running an art stall at the Cley Christmas Fair at Cley Village Hall on 30 November 2019 to raise money to enable the continuation of the Cley Art Exhibitions.

Do you have any Art you could donate?
We are looking for paintings, prints, drawings, cards, textiles, sculpture ….. anything you think we could sell to raise funds.

The NNEP committee would be very grateful if you could support this.

Your donations can be dropped off at:

The Old Workshop Gallery
The Street
Corpusty
NR11 6QP
Please bring work to the gallery between 21 and 28 November 2019. The gallery opening times are Tuesday to Saturday 10am to 4pm, Sunday 12 to 4pm

Alternatively your donations can be left with:
Ros Copping, Flat 1, 2 Hooks Hill Road, Sheringham NR26 8NJ
Please email Ros before you drop off at r.copping@icloud.com

Or you can bring you work to:
Cley Village Hall, The Fairstead, Cley-next-the-Sea,  NR25 7RJ on 30 November 2019.

Please label your donation with your name and the suggested price of the artwork – thank you.

THANK YOU FOR SUPPORTING CLEY CONTEMPORARY ART