The Courtyard Gallery

The Courtyard Gallery, which is due to open in April, is receiving a large volume of enquiries, and is consequently holding a Q & A session with the exhibitions and events co-ordinator Louise Royle and gallery owner Michelle Payne on 1st and 2nd April at 10 – 3 pm.

Contact Michelle Payne at BigARTgallery@aol.com to find out more.

The Upstairs Galleries, The Courtyard, Main Cross Road, Greater Yarmouth, NR30 3NZ www.theupstairsgallery.co.uk

Dead Monkeys – new Great Yarmouth gallery

A new gallery in Clays Yard, Market Row is due to open on 1st April.  Beano is calling his gallery `Dead Monkeys’ and plans to  be open seven days a week, 10.00 until 19.oo hrs. during the Summer season.  The gallery will specialise in contemporary arts and crafts by local artists and Beano and Kerry, who is helping to man the gallery, are looking for artists and craftspeople interested in displaying their work there.  There will also be a cooperative workshop space above the gallery.

Central Library Gallery reopens

The refurbished gallery space at the Central Library, Great Yarmouth, is now open.  The Great Yarmouth and District Society  is the first to take advantage of the new open-plan space with their 82nd  annual exhibition, which will open ready for the Maritime Festival on the 5th September.  The exhibition continues until the 12th September (except Sunday), 10-17 hrs, 19.30 hrs on Wednesday.

For information about exhibiting at the gallery, please contact the Library and Galleries Manager on 01493 844551/842279 or send an email to yarmouth.lib@norfolk.gov.uk.

The Strictly Gallery

The Strictly Gallery has opened in 25-26 Victoria Arcade, Great Yarmouth and is looking for new artists to exhibit . 

The gallery has opened with a Round the World exhibition by gallery owners Elizabeth Hearne and Paul Irving along with an exhibition of reproduced pictures titled Legends with canvasses of stars like Elvis Presley and Marilyn Monroe.

The gallery also offers a photographic studio and a canvas printing service.  The photographic studio is for hire for a small fee

Strictly Gallery is open six-days-a-week during the school holidays and is closed on Sundays.

Anyone wishing to get in contact can either call in to the gallery or visit www.thestrictlygallery.com, or email at mailto://info@thestrictlygallery.com.

Coastal Regeneration Competition

The Royal Society of Marine Artists (RSMA) is calling for entries from artists in coastal communities for a new prize to be awarded at its Annual Exhibition at London’s Mall Galleries in October. Sea Pictures Gallery is sponsoring a prize of £500 for paintings and sculptures on the subject of ‘People’s working relationship with the Sea’ to encourage the creation of figurative contemporary coastal art and to support awareness of the importance of the sea to the population of these islands.

Artworks for submission to the exhibition, which need to be accepted by the RSMA to qualify for the prize judging, have to be delivered to the Mall Galleries on the 13th September in person or by special arrangement following the instructions at www.mallgalleries.org.uk.  The correct labels and terms and conditions are to be found at this site.

‘Sea Pictures’ is a specialist marine art gallery that has recently re-established itself at Clare, in East Anglia having operated on the Internet for the last five years. Owners Sarah and Alaric Pugh are members of Sea Vision UK , the legacy organisation from the UK ’s Year of the Sea in 2005, and are keen supporters of the regeneration of Britain ’s coastal communities and our maritime heritage. For more information about the gallery click here.