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Art Exhibitions

Exhibitions are hung on the upstairs Ramp and in the Gallery.

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Entry to the exhibitions is free and the Gallery can be viewed:

Mondays to Saturdays 10am-3pm – when the box office is open and there are no events taking place in the gallery.

Also Wednesdays to Saturdays from 6.30pm during performances.

If you are travelling any distance, please call the Theatre to check that the gallery is open.

Claire Kerrison: Nature Form and Land

Monday 30th June - Friday 4th August

In The Reeds. Medium: charcoal, linseed oil, pastel and collaged mono print.

Claire’s art is an expression of the joy and inspiration she feels when she’s in the natural world. Childhood walks and outdoor play built the bedrock for a love of the intimate and wider Suffolk and Norfolk countryside.

At eighteen she started the journey of creative study and gained a BA Hons in Printed Textiles.

Claire works in mixed media influenced by the ever-evolving landscape. Colour, movement, light and texture are fundamental to her artwork.

She has created a vivid and vibrant palette using acrylic, pastel and collaged monoprint techniques whilst also incorporating linseed oil, charcoal and ink to create monochrome scapes to reflect a stark and atmospheric representation of her walks through intimate and expansive spaces.

Claire’s exhibition will incorporate detailed observational nature studies and a series of impressionistic landscapes.

Norfolk and Suffolk Guild of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers:

Fleece and Fibre at the Fisher

Friday 29th August 2025 - Sunday 7th September

A treat for lovers of textiles, this exhibition will showcase the work of the talented and enthusiastic fibre artists and craftspeople in the Waveney Valley, South Norfolk and North Suffolk.

Spinning, weaving and dyeing were the bedrock of the wealth of the region in the Middle Ages. The guild continues to foster these age-old skills and celebrate the achievements of its members, whether they be new to these crafts or experienced and established textile artists.

Anyone who has an interest in the making of yarn and cloth, the use of textiles for decoration or for practical household purposes will find a visual feast. Perhaps it will inspire you to take out those balls of yarn at the back of a cupboard at home and get creative!

Rooted in the Landscape

Contemporary landscape art by:

Sarah Cannell, Helen Derbyshire, Louise Dougherty and Caroline Mackintosh

Monday 29th September - Saturday 8th November

This exhibition features the work of 4 renowned local contemporary artists who draw their inspiration from walking in the ancient landscapes of Suffolk and Norfolk.

Sarah Cannell has spent years exploring and responding to the marshes, footpaths and lanes of the Waveney Valley. Her landscape compositions are developed into paintings and ceramics with a creative use of colour and experimental mark making.

Helen Derbyshire’s textile and mixed media artwork is about the textures and mood of the landscape around her – focussing on the details of vegetation or on evoking a sense of the season, of space, light and weather.

Louise Dougherty explores her identity through walking and recording the constant transient nature of her native Norfolk landscape, continually investigating how she connects to the landscape whether through memory, physicality or spirituality.

Caroline Mackintosh is drawn to the strong shapes, lines and patterns formed by the complex interplay of water and land in our marshes and coastal estuaries. Her work portrays the vast horizons of this landscape guiding the viewer’s eye into the distance.

Image © The artists

Winter Chorus

An exhibition by five artists

Monday 24th November - Wednesday 31st December

This exhibition brings together the work of five artists,

each with a distinct voice and medium.

The exhibition features exquisite oil paintings by Yuki Aruga