28th November - 27th December 2009
'Forgotten Norfolk'
Brian Wells
Brian Wells is not one of those photographers who roam the countryside in search of the inevitable 'chocolate box scene'.

His mission is to unearth the places that the torch hasn't shone on for many a long year; his camera zooming in on all things derelict and deteriorating across Norfolk - an original celebration of our local land.

Brian still prefers to shoot on film using his trusty ancient Rolleiflex; he enthuses 'that the quality of Zeiss lenses are legendary'.

An ongoing project that started back in 2000, has taken Brian to many different locations including Grand Country Houses, RAF bases, Churches, Farmhouses and even a Tuberculosis Hospital to name but a few.

His most successful technique is the simplest - scouting for locations by hook or by crook, armed with a weatherproof ordnance survey map.

If decay is in the air, Brian will sniff it out.

www.norfolkinruins.co.uk

2nd - 31st January 2010
'FOURTH'
Exhibition of photography created on Beyond the Image’s 2009 Photo-shoots.

6th - 28th February 2010
'Re-Membering'
Renata Grant
In 'Re-Membering' Renata Grant  has created 'memory boxes' which explore, through the use of different photograpic media, (transparencies, film prints, digital imagery, appropriated postcards and maps), the way in which we  form  documentary evidence  for our memories.

The visual narratives occurring within the work are for the viewer to interpret as they wish.  The American anthropologist & artist Susan Hillier sums it up perfectly when she says “If you think about the narrative that collections or assemblages of things make, the interesting thing is that there are always at least two possible stories: one is the story that the narrator, in this case the artist thinks she is telling …-the other is the story that the listener is understanding , or hearing, or imagining on the basis of the same objects. And there would always be at least two versions of whatever was being told”.

5th - 28th March 2010
'Shore'
Paul Coghlin
In “Shore”, Paul Coghlin seeks to evoke reflection through composition, textures and tones in his images of locations along the Suffolk coast in England, creating an ethereal white expanse of the crashing waves.

Paul employs a number of photographic techniques whilst composing and capturing the monochrome images, with each one being completed back in the studio to draw-out the detail and emotion contained in the image.

After the Suffolk shore, new work has been completed in locations such as Cambridge and as far a-field as Canada, with subjects ranging from a dark rolling storm over a farm to droplets of morning dew on a fallen leaf to a powerful lion's stare.

www.paulcoghlinphotography.com

2nd - 25th April 2010
'All that Jazz'
Gwyn Bilby
June 2009 I was staying in Chicago USA, I didn't realise that the Chicago blues festival was happening that very weekend. So I went along and was completely hooked on the whole atmosphere.
The performers are so passionate about their music.
So when I found there was a jazz festival in September I just had to go camera in hand. To just try and capture the passion they feel about their music. I had an amazing time and every time I look at these images it brings it all back to life for me.

I am a photographic obsessive, my whole life revolves around photography. I love every aspect whether it is taking photos or enjoying other peoples. On a personal level to work on, print and then to see the final mounted print is sheer magic. In the world of photography the word "capture" is often used to describe the moment when an image is created. I prefer the word "receive" that magical moment when an image comes to life.

30th April - 16th May 2010
'A Painter's Garden'
Liz Barnard
Le Jardin Majorelle in Marrakech is full of colour that blazes under the desert sky. Created originally by Jacques Majorelle, son of the Art Nouveau designer, Henri, it was owned until his recent death by Yves St Laurent.  Walking in the garden is like a being in a Matisse painting and these images are a celebration of its vibrant palette.

21st - 30th May 2010 - gallery open every day
'80th Birthday Celebration'
June Drummond
I always loved drawing as a child and in 1947 I became a student at Norwich Art School, but due to financial circumstances I wasn’t able to finish the course.  I married a few years later and gave most of my time to bringing up my family.

When I was 49 I decided it was “my time”, so I started attending adult classes at Ipswich Art School where I was fortunate enough to have Ken Cuthbert as my tutor.  I have painted ever since whenever I have time, nothing spectacular, just flowers and things around me and lots of encouragement from my friends and family.

4th - 27th June 2010
'Crossroads of Culture (Morocco & Mekong)'
Ben Watts
Travel photographs taken from journeys in Vietnam, Laos and Morocco between 2007 and 2009. Showing the people, their ways of life and and the cultural landscape, juxtaposing tradition with modernity.

2nd July - 1st August 2010
'Textures, Traces and Elements'
Suffolk Open Studios
Recent works by Hazel Bignell, Jazz Green and Carol Pask. Contemporary paintings, prints, mixed media collage and ceramics, inspired by the East Anglian landscape

6th - 30th August 2010
Arabella Mercer
Arabella currently divides her time between a life as a travelling photographer and a career as a veterinary surgeon. She loves nothing more than to really get off the beaten track & into the wilderness and it is there that the natural world provides her main inspiration.

"From the widest landscape to the smallest insect I find happiness capturing, in my photos, the beauty of our world.  This exhibition is a collection of wildlife, portrait and landscape images from all over the world as seen 'Though My Eyes'."

3rd - 31st October 2010
'Gothic attitude'
Gwyn Bilby
A collection of images providing an insight into the ecliptic world of "The Goths."

Paradoxically, a diverse community of ‘individualists’, who collectively, express themselves through their styles of dress and attitude towards life and society.

These images were taken at "The Whitby Goth Weekend" April 2010

6th November - 19th December 2010
'IMMERSION'
Jane Ironside
My work is concerned with the issue of why we take journeys, both inner and outer, and what we discover; journeys usually involve ritual and/ or repetition, and may take us to hidden spaces, and can often repulse general patterns of negativity, leaving space for something else to happen. It seems that these journeys can be as simple as sitting quietly, tracing a thread literally in and out of the mesh of a darn in an old jumper, or following the meandering line of a path, river or road through the fabric of the landscape. The experience is often archetypal, while being simultaneously subjective and private.

The concept of pilgrimage, immersion in nature, connections, the frayed edges between the land and water, the history and memory of water and reflection, the folds, swirls and rills as a metaphor for brain ’waves’ (thought patterns) all play into my practice.

I have just finished documenting and mapping the river Wensum while travelling beside and in the water, by canoe, walking, cycling and swimming.

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