bury st edmunds art gallery - previous exhibitions

Suffolk Showcase

Suffolk Showcase, the now established annual open submission exhibition, returns to Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery this summer. This opportunity is open to all Suffolk-based artists and makers aged 16 years and over to show work in a public exhibition of the highest quality.

focus on dance

part of Bury St Edmunds Festival 9-25 May

Inspired by the history of the Market Cross building, in particular its use as a space for local dances in the mid 20th century, Bury St Edmunds Art Gallery features the work of four contemporary artists who consider the theme of dance through the spectacle of performance and in various collaborations between artists, choreographers, dancers and spectators.

BILLY COWIE in the flesh 7-31 May
LINDA FLORENCE sugar dance 6 May, 6.00 pm to 9.00 pm
MORTEN NILSSON dancers 7-31 May
OONA RICHARDS backstage at the ballet 7-31 May

Comfort Zones

15 March to 26 April 2008

Comfort Zones brings together works by artists from the UK and abroad exploring the environment which we might call ‘home’. The exhibition’s title conjures images of warm, safe private places, far removed from the public, open and vulnerable world we live in.

Paul Seawright : Invisible Cities

19 January to 1 March 2008

The fastest growing cities in the world today are on the African continent. By 2015 Lagos will be the second largest city in the world, following closely on the heels of Tokyo.

Combining portraiture and landscape, Paul Seawright’s photographs made in Lagos, Johannesburg, Lusaka and Addis Ababa, focus on those seemingly interminable prosaic moments, glimpses of the everyday in the hidden recesses of the city.