Fen Ditton Gallery Exhibition Programme
A Gathering of Friends: Prints from Kip Gresham Editions
A Gathering of Friends celebrates the gallery’s relationship with Kip Gresham and The Print Studio, Cambridge, through a newly selected collection of prints by just a few of the many artists, across three generations, who have, like us, found working with Kip both a revelation and a productive delight.
Kittie Jones: Artist Residency Open Studio
We look forward to welcoming award-winning wildlife artist and regular gallery exhibitor, Kittie Jones, to take up residency at the gallery.
Remembering Kathryn M Holford
In March 2024, Fen Ditton Gallery will stage a major exhibition to celebrate the life of one of the UK’s leading glass designers, who stepped away from the hustle of commercial design at the height of her career to find peace in her own creative practice.
The exhibition will showcase some of Kathryn M Holford’s most significant works in glass and paint, including a specially produced limited edition vase made by master glassmaker Bob Crooks, with whom Kathryn often collaborated.
Voices in Drawing
Showcasing the work of six emerging artists, recently graduated from the prestigious Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School.
Exhibiting artists: Otis Blease, Euan Evans, Felix Higham, Ellie Lonsdale, Agnes Treherne and Olly Williamson
Gallery Artists January Exhibition
To start the year, we are open with a selection of works by our regular artists and makers.
The exhibition is open by appointment only, please contact us on info@fendittongallery.com to book or call 01223 295657
Including works by: Stephen Bird, Willard Boepple, Alan Davie, Stephen Chambers, Rosemary Cullum, David Emond, Nigel Hall, Gillies Jones, Lara Scobie
Wintering
A mixed exhibition to celebrate the beauty of Winter…
Long shadows, crisp walks and snow covered trees... winter is beautiful. We're celebrating that, and the artists that it inspires, in a curated mixed exhibition including prints, photography, painting, photography and much more.
Exhibiting artists include: Norman Ackroyd, Lotte Attwood, Rosemary Cullum, Anthony Day, Mingyu Du, David Emond, Andy English, Justin Hawkes, Kathryn Holford and Rikki Morgan-Tamosunas
Going Yellow
14th October - 12th November
Autumn leaves, sunshine, light – there are so many life enhancing associations with this vibrant colour. We are delighted to celebrate that this autumn with a mixed media exhibition drawing together artists who have found new ways of drawing attention to the colour’s expressive, and symbolic power. Works range from the brilliant thread works of textile artist Ptolemy Mann, subject of a new podcast by Hannah which is available to listen to here to screenprints by Willard Boepple, Nigel Hall and Stephen Chambers, created in collaboration with Kip Gresham studio, and new works in both glass and ceramic.
David Emond: Light, Colour, Pattern
Fen Ditton Gallery are delighted to work with Cambridge artist David Emond to present a new perspective on a lifetime of creating. Light, Colour, Pattern brings together a collection of David’s drawings, painting and installations spanning the last 45 years.
Gallery Artists August Exhibition
An exhibition of works from some of the established and emerging artists we have had the pleasure of working with
Artist-in-Residence: Chris Winch "Time and Tied"
Artist-in-Residence: Chris Winch
Fen Ditton Gallery are delighted to welcome our third artist-in-residence, Chris Winch.
After visiting our Art and the River Deben exhibition (Autumn 2022), Chris was inspired to explore his own long-standing connection to the River. He is a regular visitor to the Deben, sailing and investigating the myriad of creeks and shallows.
Shards and Sources
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Kip Gresham of the Print Studio launching a new body of work with leading American sculptor Willard Boepple (b.1945). Shards and Their Sources’ sheds new light on the 20 year dialogue between a master printer and a sculptor.
Contemporary Printmaking Prize: Selling Exhibition
This free-to-enter open call received over 600 entries and highlights the very best of contemporary printmaking in the UK today.
This is your opportunity to browse and buy works from established and emerging printmakers, whose work has been selected by our panel of distinguished judges
UNDISCOVERED: Pop-up Exhibition
Fen Ditton Gallery are once again shining a spotlight on the next generation of artists, bringing you a pop-up exhibition of emerging talents.
Art, Science and the Natural World
Art, Science and the Natural World is explored in this third exhibition, with three resident artists of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative; Sarah Gillespie, Rebecca Jewell and Esther Tyson
Art and Rivers
The second exhibition is a series of back-to-back exhibitions celebrating artists' responses to the natural world, this time taking a wider look at rivers and their inhabitants.
Art and the River Deben
The first of two newly commissioned cross-disciplinary exhibitions exploring artists’ connections to rivers which launches our Art and Environment season. Art and The River Deben celebrates Suffolk’s River Deben which flows for nearly 25 miles from its source near Debenham to the North Sea at Felixstowe Ferry. All the artists have longstanding connections to the River Deben.
Art and Environment: An Autumn Season
Art and Environment is explored in three different ways this autumn with two newly commissioned back-to back-exhibitions celebrating artists responses to ‘Rivers’ followed by a show linked to a new residency programme at Cambridge Conservation Centre.
One Year On
Note: This exhibition has been extended and viewings can be made by appointment. Contact info@fendittongallery.com to book
A year ago, Hannah launched the Young Collectors Club, building on her work with Amanda and Lotte at Fen Ditton Gallery. Our first show of the autumn celebrates this anniversary with a collection of new works, selected by Lotte and Hannah focussing on emerging artists Otis Blease and Felix Higham (introduced to the gallery in Voices of Drawing last year) and works by Joanna Cohn and Johannah Muriel, who are showing their prints with us for the first time.
Cambridge Open Studios
You are invited to join Lotte Attwood, Rosemary Cullum and Janet Powell at Fen Ditton Gallery on the first two weekends of July for the annual Cambridge Open Studios.
Exhibited works include; black and white handprinted photographs, oil and mixed media paintings and contemporary gold and silver jewellery.
Opening times: 10am - 5pm
Sat 2nd / Sun 3rd July
Sat 9th / Sun 10th July
In Dialogue 4: Impossible Forms
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of In Dialogue a series of four week-long displays throughout the month of May curated in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery Advisor, Amanda Game.
In Dialogue 3: Old Questions/New Answers
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of In Dialogue a series of four week-long displays throughout the month of May curated in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery Advisor, Amanda Game.
In Dialogue 2: Fire and Ice
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of In Dialogue a series of four week-long displays throughout the month of May curated in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery Advisor, Amanda Game.
In Dialogue: A series of four displays throughout May
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of In Dialogue a series of four week-long displays throughout the month of May curated in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery Advisor, Amanda Game.
In Dialogue 1: Life Rhythm
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce the forthcoming launch of In Dialogue a series of four week-long displays throughout the month of May curated in collaboration with Fen Ditton Gallery Advisor, Amanda Game.
Slipware: An Oxford Ceramics Gallery exhibition
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to announce a new collaboration with Oxford Ceramics Gallery. The gallery, directed by James Fordham and Rachel Ackland, is acknowledged as one of the leading galleries in the field of studio ceramics. ‘Slipware’ is a newly researched exhibition, first launched in Oxford in 2021, now being re-imagined, with new additions, for Fen Ditton Gallery.
The Language of Abstraction
An exhibition celebrating the work and artist collaborations of Cambridge master printmaker Kip Gresham.
Exhibitors include: Gillian Ayres; Wilhelmina Barns-Graham; Willard Boepple; Michael Brick; Bob Edgson; Nigel Hall; Kim Lim; John McLean.
Opening times:
15th January - 27th February 2022
Fridays - Sundays: 10am - 5pm
Wednesdays by appointment, contact info@fendittongallery.com to book
Christmas Exhibition
A Curated Christmas Selling Exhibition
Thursday 2nd - Sunday 5th December
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Water / Land
Water/Land is the fourth in an annual series of exhibitions at Fen Ditton Gallery which bring together artists and makers, across media, to explore and celebrate aspects of the natural world.
Voices in Drawing
Cambridge-born emerging artist Felix Higham exhibits alongside two of his contemporaries, Otis Blease and Agnes Treherne, in the trio’s first exhibition since graduating from the Royal Drawing School
Opening hours:
10th - 26th September 2021
Saturdays and Sundays 10am - 6pm
Other times available by appointment
20 Years On: Graham Murrell
An exhibition from 20 years of photography by Graham Murrell, dedicated to the late Michael Harrison, former Director of Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge.
Installation image of 20 Years On
Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to be hosting a new exhibition of photographs by former Head of Photography at Central St Martins, Graham Murrell, 20 YEARS ON.
It was twenty years ago that Graham Murrell completed his first major exhibition, Lights Spells, made and exhibited at Kettle’s Yard in collaboration with his Central St Martin’s colleague, Kathryn Faulkner. The two photographers visited Jim Ede’s former home now gallery over the course of 18 months to capture the ever-changing light and atmosphere of the space. The title of the exhibition and book was inspired by Jim Ede’s edict that you must “first furnish your house with light”.
Murrell comments “The project was made possible by the support and enthusiasm of the, then, Director of Kettles Yard, the late Michael Harrison. (It was this support) that lead to all the opportunities that have come my way over the past 20 years. All of which encouraged me to leave my post at Central St Martin’s and concentrate on making books and exhibitions.”
This is the first time a major exhibition of photographs spanning this period of Murrell’s career have been shown together. Fen Ditton Gallery have worked closely with Murrell to select the works and it was during these conversations that it become so apparent the influence that Michael Harrison had on Murrell’s career. It felt poignant to dedicate this exhibition to his memory.
Contemporary Printmaking Prize
The works in this exhibition were selected from over 550 entries to the inaugural Fen Ditton Gallery Contemporary Printmaking Prize. The selection was made by a panel of expert judges, artists Nigel Hall RA and Rebecca Jewell and Curator of Prints at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Elenor Ling. Thank you to the judges for their time, knowledge and wisdom. It has been a pleasure to have your support on this project.
The Winner - Stefan Tiburcio
We are delighted to present to you the winner of the 2021 Contemporary Printmaking Prize Stefan Tiburcio, with his work Coronavirus: Stay at Home, Save Lives, Protect the NHS. The judges thought it was a powerful and well-constructed image, skilfully executed with a clever reversal of colours to frame the composition. The artist has cut the lines of this essentially linear technique to give a real sense of liveliness and energy, which speaks to our restless physical and mental states due to staying inside during the Covid-19 lockdowns. Hannah interviewed Stefan to make the announcement and find out more about him and his practice.
Fen Ditton Gallery would like to thank all the artists who entered the Contemporary Printmaking Prize and congratulate those who were shortlisted. The variety and breadth of printmaking expertise that has been showcased has been superb. We are thrilled to be able to offer a platform to such an important and specialist art form. We hope you enjoy the exhibition as much as we have enjoyed putting it together.
Spring Exhibtion
We are kickstarting our 2021 exhibition programme with our Spring Exhibition. Selected by Lotte and Hannah, these works reflect the start of the new season and a time for optimism.
Add art to your daily walk! We have displayed a selection of the works from this exhibition in the windows of the gallery. We hope you will enjoy browsing them as you take a walk in the beautiful village of Fen Ditton. If you see any works below that you would like to view in person, we can arrange for them to be displayed for a 'window viewing'. Contact us on info@fendittongallery.com to enquire.
This exhibition will introduce James Horton, Past President of the Royal Society of British Artists, to the gallery for the first time. We are delighted to have a selection of his oil and watercolour paintings, the subjects of which span his travels in India to his own garden.
We are pleased to welcome Frances Priest back to the gallery, with three drawings from her Grammar of Ornament series, created especially for this exhibition. Yorkshire glassmaking duo, Gillies Jones, also return with their superb glass bowls which draw inspiration from the wildflowers they encounter on their daily walks.
Other artworks include mixed media works by award-winning wildlife artist Nik Pollard and a new screenprint to celebrate the end of lockdown by Nigel Hall RA in collaboration with Kip Gresham (Cambridge Print Studio); as well as Daphne Carnegy's plant-inspired ceramics, screenprints by member of the Society of Wildlife Artists, Kittie Jones, art nouveau inspired ceramics by Lola Swain, a thoughtful study of snowdrops by Lotte Attwood and still life mixed media studies by Carmen Renwick.