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The Arts in Ely
(Arts Development In East Cambridgeshire) is the local
arts development agency providing grants to local organisations, information
and training, professional performances, exhibitions and education activities.
ADeC also
create "The Guide" a nice leaflet outlining arts and other events
in this area. Ely On-Line's "What's On"
page is created from "The Guide". If you would like to
have "The Guide" delivered to your home free of charge, contact
them on Ely (01353) 669022, call into the office at Artspace,
15 Forehill, Ely, or e-mail
them at adec@dial.pipex.com
Babylon Gallery - Babylon Bridge
- Ely - Cambridgeshire - CB7 4AU
Tel.: 01353 669022 - Fax: 01353 669052
E-mail: adec@dial.pipex.com
PRESS RELEASE - 4
August, 2000
AT THE BABYLON GALLERY FROM 7 AUGUST TO 16 SEPTEMBER
SPOTLIGHT ON TERRY FROST
Spotlight on Terry Frost, a Hayward Gallery national
touring exhibition, is on show at the Babylon Gallery, Ely from Monday
7th August to Saturday 16th September. This exhibition brings together
six paintings and four prints made between 1952 and 1996 by Sir Terry
Frost, a central figure of the St. Ives School.
Sir Terry Frost has been painting for more than 50 years and is perhaps
best known for the works that combine vivid circles of colour, with
V-shaped wedges, swirling backgrounds and strong vertical lines. He
began to paint as a prisoner of War in the Second World War and it was
in the late 1940s that he created his first abstract painting. After
settling in St Ives he became a prominent member of an artistic community
that included Ben Nicholson, Peter Lanyon and Barbara Hepworth, to whom
he worked as an assistant in 1951. Since then he has exhibited internationally
and he taught at art colleges around Britain before becoming Professor
of Painting at Reading University. He currently lives and works in Newlyn,
Cornwall.
Frost's paintings although abstract nearly always draw on his experience
of being in the world and many are particularly evocative of Cornish
harbours
or the Yorkshire landscape. His work is always grounded in things seen
and felt, and he has created a distinctive and personal visual language
of shapes and colours that vividly communicate this experience.
The works on show are drawn from the Arts Council Collection managed
by the Hayward Gallery. The collection has over 7,000 paintings, drawings,
sculptures and photographs by most of Britain’s leading artists. Spotlight
exhibitions focus on significant works by major artists in the Arts
Council
Collection, and tour to galleries all over the country.
The Babylon Gallery, Waterside, Ely is open Tuesday to Sunday from 10am
to 4pm. For further information please telephone 01353 669022.
 Terry
Frost
Red, Yellow and Blue, 1962
Oil on canvas
Please note the changed opening days of the Babylon Gallery.
The Babylon Gallery is now open Tuesday to Sunday 10am to 4pm and is
closed Mondays.
The exhibition has been mounted and is ready. Press photographers are
welcome to take pictures of the gallery by appointment on 01353 669022.
For further information, interviews or pictures of the works in the
exhibition please contact Liesbeth ten Ham or Nicky Adamson at ADeC
on 01353 669022.
The Babylon Gallery is ADeC‘s new art gallery. Local professional
artists and community groups will be invited to exhibit, but the gallery
will also accommodate regional and national touring exhibitions on a
regular basis.
With the advice of Eastern Arts Board and other experts in this field,
ADeC will be developing an artistic policy for the gallery to position
it within a regional framework and provide a new focus for the visual
arts in the District. For further information about the Babylon
Gallery and its exhibition programme, interviews or pictures please
contact Nicky Adamson or Liesbeth ten Ham at ADeC on 01353 669022.
Interwoven
Thursday 21st September - Sunday 29th October 2000
Throw away your misconceptions of basketry. Interwoven, an exhibition
from the Crafts Council Collection, will prove that even the most ordinary
looking basket can demonstrate the extraordinary skills of its maker.
But the exhibition will go beyond that. The last fifteen years have
seen many changes in the basket making craft. A new generation of artisans
have begun to create new forms and to use recycled materials and colour.
For instance, Susie Thompson's fan shaped basket is a result of her
search into "how willow can be moved and transformed naturally." Dail
Behennah has also exploited the potential of willow to the full in her
complex dish comprising of stacked willow grids.
Open: Tues - Sat 10am - 4pm, Sun 11am - 5pm
Free
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Fleeting Arcadias
Thursday 2nd November - Sunday 26th November 2000
By the 1970s a number of photographers began to take pictures that questioned
the ideal of the landscape as a source of lyricism and nostalgia. Fleeting
Arcadias is a Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition of 35 framed
photographs selected by artists and writer John Stathatos which address
issues such as ecological concerns and commercial exploitations.
Open: Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm
Free
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'Sparkle' Christmas at the Babylon Gallery
Wednesday 29th November - Saturday 23rd December 2000
At this exhibition of fine and applied arts by local professional artists
works range from paintings and prints, sculpture and pottery, to jewellery
and textiles. All the works are for sale, providing an unusual and high
quality choice for Christmas presents.
Open: Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm
Free
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East Cambridgeshire A-Level Art
Tuesday 9th January - Sunday 4th February 2001
Annual exhibition of works from A-level Art students from Ely Sixth
Form Centre and the King's School. This year the exhibition also includes
work from local students studying in Cambridge.
Open: Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm
Free
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Matisse Jazz
Saturday 10th February - Sunday 11th March 2001
This Hayward Gallery National Touring Exhibition shows 20 prints from
Matisse's well-loved Jazz series. In 1942 Henri Matisse, at the age
of 73 and troubled by ill health perfected his cut-out technique and
created an astonishingly vivacious and innovative body of work. With
the technical assistance of the fine art publisher Tériade a book of
twenty images with accompanying text called JAZZ was completed in 1947,
in an edition of 270.
Open: Tues - Sun 10am - 4pm
Free
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ADeC
has moved to a new gallery and offices:
Babylon Gallery
Babylon Bridge
Ely
Cambridgeshire
CB7 4AU
Tel.: 01353 669022
Fax: 01353 669052
E-mail: adec@dial.pipex.com
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Staff:
Liesbeth ten Ham - Marketing and Information Officer
Nicky Adamson - Arts Development Officer
Chris Wood/Angela Fordham - Administrative Assistants
Linda Pearce - Finance Assistant
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