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James Iveson: Positions at OUTPOST, Norwich

James Iveson Positions 2 February – 21 February The eagerness of objects to be what we are afraid to do cannot help but move us Is this willingness to be a motive in us what we reject? Extract from Interior (with Jane) by Frank O’Hara OUTPOST is pleased to present Positions, an exhibition of a new series of painting by James Iveson. For this presentation of work at OUTPOST, Iveson has chosen to...

Grey Matters: Graphite at The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge

Grey Matters: Graphite 29 November – 11 March • Famous artists on show including William Blake, Degas, Toulouse Lautrec and Burne-Jones • Display showing the wide range of forms graphite can take, from the raw mineral to pencils, batons and even powder • Boundary-pushing contemporary works: graphite ‘painting’ and a performance video of exploding graphite balloons The latest exhibition from the...

There Is Here: Photographs by Avi Gupta at Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

Avi Gupta There Is Here 4 February – 1 July The Sainsbury Centre launches a new programme dedicated to contemporary art with a specially commissioned exhibition of intriguing new photographic works by the American artist Avi Gupta. For his first UK exhibition, Avi Gupta presents There Is Here, a series of over thirty photographs taken inside Bengali homes in Kolkata, India and the Washington DC area, USA. With...

Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence at The Fitzwilliam Museum

A new exhibition on the 17th-century Dutch master Johannes Vermeer will explore the mysterious appeal of the women in his paintings. Vermeer’s Women: Secrets and Silence features 28 works by master painters of the Dutch Golden Age and four iconic works by Vermeer, including The Lacemaker from the Musée du Louvre in Paris, on show in the UK for the first time. Women are one of the key subjects in Vermeer’s...

Martina Korošec

Martina Korošec (1984) is Slovenian born photographer, living and working in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. She concluded her BA studies of Sociology of Culture and Pedagogy at Faculty of Arts in Ljubljana, Slovenia in 2009. Between 1999 and 2004 she was actively engaged with contemporary dance. In the last years, she has been working on photography mostly. In addition, she carried out a series of short films in...

The Fitzwilliam Museum – Cambridge

The Fitzwilliam Museum was described by the Standing Commission on Museums & Galleries in 1968 as ‘one of the greatest art collections of the nation and a monument of the first importance’. It owes its foundation to Richard, VII Viscount Fitzwilliam of Merrion who, in 1816, bequeathed to the University of Cambridge his works of art and library, together with funds to house them, to further ‘the...

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