Atelier East

The Young Curators Need Your Help - Can You Share Your Local Knowledge?

karen — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 10:28:13 +0000

Residents in the Waterlees Wisbech, and March East areas are invited to a special free event!

We are young people living in the March/Wisbech area who are investigating the way life has changed in the local area since the 1900’s. With financing from the Heritage Lottery Fund, we aim to create two exhibitions, one for Wisbech Museum and another travelling display – as well as a photographic record for the Cambridgeshire Community Archives Network. But we need your help!

Have you got any old, interesting beloved photos that you want to preserve? Have you got stories and witty anecdotes from past times that you are worried will be lost and want to share?

Then please get in touch so we can send you a special invitation to come along and share your memories to be archived and preserved. Enjoy a cup of tea and a piece of cake and share your knowledge with us, The Young Curators Forum.

Your stories, photos and history will be part of a local exhibition documenting how our local area has evolved.

We would love to meet you and share your stories!

For more information please email info@atelier-east.co.uk

by Abbie Loosemore and Charlotte Shears

Join us for the Fenland Poet Laureate Awards!

karen — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:38:57 +0000

Would you like to join us for a lovely evening of poetry, celebration and good company? Please RSVP to admin@atelier-east.co.uk and let us know. We are very proud to have won a Clore Duffield Poetry and Literature Award to run this project, and we would love to share this evening with you.

Young Curators Forum - Meeting 28 January 2012

karen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:45:39 +0000

Young People! Come and join the fun… 10-12 at Wisbech & Fenland Museum on Saturday 28 January. This a great opportunity to make new friends and do something different and interesting with your spare time! Come and find out more!

Are you a Young Fenland Poet? Get Writing with our Free Poetry Pack!

karen — Tue, 17 Jan 2012 13:19:39 +0000

As part of our search for Poet Laureate’s for Fenland, we have produced this Poetry Pack! Lots of Fenland schools have received this along with some great ideas for fun poetry sessions. If you’d like a full sized version emailing to you, just drop us a line!

Strokes & Styles from Skylark: 4 February - 1 March 2012

karen — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 16:30:56 +0000

February will see the return of award winning artist, Louise Stebbing to Octavia View, and this time she’s bringing her students! The exhibition, Strokes & Styles from Skylark, will showcase some of Louise Stebbing’s latest linocuts alongside a wide variety of linocuts, watercolours, pastels and acrylics created by students attending classes at Skylark Studios in Tydd Gote.

Louise said, “The studio is now in its 19th year and classes have been going from strength to strength. The student’s work will include a wide variety of styles and techniques by total beginners and some who have been attending the classes for years.”

At Atelier East we’ve been working really hard to bring some great exhibitions to Wisbech in 2012. We’ve got some brilliant local artist’s showing, as well as high profile and up and coming acclaimed national artists, such as painter Gemma Cumming who is creating work especially for Fenland.

Strokes & Styles from Skylark will open with an evening viewing on 3^rd February from 7-9pm. The exhibition will continue until 1st March 2012.

Call for Artists - Exhibit with Atelier East in 2012

karen — Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:37:40 +0000

We are looking for artists who would like to show off their best artwork in 2012 at Octavia View in Wisbech. The exhibitions run for one month and group applications are welcome as well as solo ones.

Many successful exhibitions have been curated by Atelier East, showing a wide variety of artists including award winning Louise Stebbing, Suzanne Woolcott and Neville Palmer.

Past exhibitor, Karen Radenkova says, “Atelier East was instrumental in encouraging me to exhibit my work for the first time in 2009. Although I was very nervous Karen and her team at Atelier East have been brilliant in offering support and guidance up to and throughout both my exhibitions, and in finding great venue to showcase my work. Since holding the exhibitions I am slowly, but surely, building up a wider audience and it has really given me more confidence as an artist”.

Octavia View gets many visitors each month and artists are invited to have their own private viewing evening; a special evening for friends, family and the public to relax and enjoy their artwork. This is the best opportunity in Fenland to have your art shown to a wider audience!

Its wasy to apply, just email admin@atelier-east.co.uk and get an application form then send it back with examples of your artwork. Spaces are limited.

And the Fenland Photographer of the Year Award goes to…

karen — Mon, 05 Dec 2011 16:04:58 +0000

Tim Daniels - Fenland Photographer of the Year 2012… congratulations!

Category winners were…

Heritage and Culture - Julie Shortland
Waterways - Ian Stacey
Outdoor Pursuits - Roger Newark
Churches - Chris Brudenell
Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces - Tim Daniels
Market Towns - Barry Clark

The awards evening for Fenland Photographer of the Year was a great success, Octavia View was full of people getting the first glimpse at the best pictures from around Fenland and everyone had a great time!

It was great to bring so many creative people together in such a beautiful and unique venue, and to share a special evening of celebration and some fantastic photographic art. We hope to support many more photographers and Fenland District Council again next year.

One of the guests, Janis Griffiths said, “It was a great opportunity to appreciate some beautiful photography of the fens. The winning entry was truly outstanding and it is wonderful that Atelier East is supporting and encouraging young talent like Tim Daniels who I’m sure is on his way to a successful career as a first class photographer.” Thank you Janis!

The exhibition will be running for a full two months and finishes on the 2^nd February 2012.

An Invitation from Peterborough Sculpture Trust

karen — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:54:27 +0000

If you love sculpture then hopefully you will already know about the great collection of works we have in Peterborough… but if not, here is a great chance to come along and see a fabulous piece of world-class sculpture and find out more! Please do RSVP as per the invite.

Join us on Friday 2nd December for the Fenland Photographer of the Year Awards!

karen — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 15:49:51 +0000

Join us for an evening of celebration and good company as we announce the winner of the Fenland Photographer of the Year Awards! There will be an exhibition of all 30 shortlisted works and a chance to meet some of the photographers over a glass of wine. Let us know if you can come along!

Shortlist Announced for Fenland Photographer of the Year 2012

karen — Thu, 20 Oct 2011 15:35:45 +0000

Thank you to everyone who entered the Fenland Photographer of the Year competition, and congratulations to those of you who have made the shortlist!

All 30 shortlisted images will go on display at Octavia View throughout December and January, and on Friday 2nd December, the exhibition will open with a special awards ceremony to announce the winners in each category, and the overall Fenland Photographer of the Year!

Shortlisted photographers in each of the 6 categories are:
Heritage and Culture:
Nathan Smith (x2)
Ian Stacey
Tim Daniels
Julie Shortland

Churches:
David Hodgson
Julie Shortland
David Kelley
Chris Brudenell (x2)

Waterland:
Roger Newark
Mark Ashworth
Ian Stacey (x3)

Outdoor Pursuits:
David Hodgson
Reg Kemp (x2)
Roger Newark (x2)

Parks, Gardens and Open Spaces:
Ian Stacey
Tim Daniels (x2)
Chris Brudenell
Sarah Nice

Market Towns:
Robin Stevenson
Barry Clark
Barry Coates (x2)
Tim Daniels

We will soon be sending out special invitations for the Awards Ceremony, please do get in touch if you would like to come along.