Projects: (Current/ Live)
Saturday 21 October to Sunday 17 December
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Joanna Holland’s exhibition, ‘Out of the Blue’, shares her lived experience of chronic illness. It brings together photographs, video, soundscapes and text from different bodies of work created over the last three years.
DEVELOPMENTAL
LIFTING THE HORIZON
originalprojects
Ends June 2024
An innovative 18-month programme of:
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, additional support from Great Yarmouth Borough Council, University of East Anglia(Creative UEAandCivic University), Norwich University of the Arts and CVAN(Contemporary Visual Arts Network England).
Events (Coming up):
originalprojects; opens its doors for an evening dedicated to raising awareness and funds in solidarity with Palestine.
We are pleased to present a screening of compelling films from and about Palestine. These screenings were made possible with support from the Palestine Film Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture-Palestine.
Please be aware that although some films are child-friendly, others do contain distressing images and themes. We want this event to be accessible for everyone, and while some of the films may not be appropriate for all, we will have a play corner and flag-making table set-up for children & families as the films play if anyone wants to bring children.
Additionally, Global Kitchen will be setting up a food stall, available for purchase throughout the night.
While admission to this event is free, we encourage attendees to consider making a donation at the door. The proceeds from both the food stall and any contributions received during the evening will be channeled towards Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), aiding in the provision of vital services on the ground in Gaza.
We believe this screening serves a dual purpose: not only to raise funds for the dedicated medical professionals in Gaza but also to foster unity during these divisive times. We extend an invitation to come together, watch, learn, and cultivate awareness through the power of film. While donations are appreciated, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
As this event is expected to reach capacity, we kindly ask you to reserve your free ticket in advance. Let's stand together for a meaningful cause and make a positive impact on the lives of those in need.
PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 8th December
5 pm - 7 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Daniel Eatock will talk about his diverse creative practice that comfortably flits between design, graphic design, visual art, conceptual art, and the undefined.
Find out more about Daniel's work via www.eatock.com
This event is free and all are welcome. Please book a space via Eventbrite.
This talk is delivered as part of originalprojects;' Arts Council funded project 'Lifting the Horizon', which incorporates a 'Designing the Real World', including talks by artists and professionals in art and design-related areas, workshops to develop skills, opportunities to have tutorials with artists and curators and make together.
Friday 22 March, 2024
Great Yarmouth
A day of talks, case studies, and relationship-building that consider the changing landscape of arts education. How do the ways in which we 'teach' the arts reflect or determine the culture we live in? How are radical and forward-thinking organisations bringing new models for teaching and learning to places traditionally ignored by legacy arts institutions? And how can we build collective and individual practices that enable ambitious work within ever-more constrained material conditions?
FULL PROGRAMME available via at https://contracurricular.co.uk/
Register now for CONTRAcurricular and help build new futures in arts education.
Events (Regular):
FUN AND INSPIRATIONAL arts and crafts activities with an Easter and Springtime twist.
A chance to explore exciting, new creative approaches and techniques in an art gallery setting with real artists.
A delicious healthy meal will be provided daily.
Projects: (Past)
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 17th October
12 pm
FREE, All Welcome
FREE, booking via yarmakers@originalprojects.co.uk
Join Monica to try out the traditional Danish craft of paper cord seat weaving. You can bring along your own item to repair, or learn the techniques and be inspired to experiment with different materials and objects.
FREE, All Welcome
Join us for a special drop-in event to find out how you can get involved, share and help shape YarMakers: Crafting Connections in the Community - a 12-month programme of FREE creative workshops, socials, talks, screenings, exhibitions and events for Great Yarmouth residents.
Let's Make and Shake Great Yarmouth like never before!
PUBLIC ART OFF-SITE
MdZ ESTATE Tour
Jimmy Cauty
The (Dis)Pleasure Beach Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk N30 3EH
Open siince July 2022 (open during Pleasure Beach Gardens opening times, varying through the season)
Jimmy Cauty's ESTATE has landed in Great Yarmouth providing a fully immersive dystopian model village experience. The walk-through installation features four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale (approx 2 metres high) housed in a 40ft shipping container. There is no sign of the inhabitants, alarm bells ring and TV sets have been left on, a BBC news bulletin gives some insight into the sudden mass exodus. Audiences are invited to view the evacuated residences, and question what might have happened and what it all means...
The experience includes smoke, strobe lighting, wind, loud noise, and tiny TV broadcasts. Suitable for children and adults over 5.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists CPD Workshop
Inclusive practice, health and wellbeing
Saturday 7th October, 4 pm - 6 pm
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE - Book here
This session will draw on Suffolk Artlink's specialist expertise to explore ideas and best practices on inclusive practice and health and wellbeing.
A creative activity for the session will be led by Kasia Posen who will offer the perspective of someone who is a freelance artist, but also who has experience working with Suffolk ArtLink to develop and deliver projects
This workshop formed part of originalprojects;' Arts Council funded project Lifting the Horizon, which incorporates a Continuing Professional Development Programme for artists, including talks by artists and professionals in arts-related areas, workshops to develop skills, and opportunities to have tutorials with artists and curators.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists CPD Workshop
A beginner's guide to funding applications
Online
Friday 25th August, 2023
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists Talk
Lawrence Leaman and Alex Sainsbury
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Thursday 24th August, 2023
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
The Independents
Tommy Lee Grimmer
Great Yarmouth Portraits
Barbara Laws
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 2nd June to Sunday 2nd July
A joint photography exhibition of the work of Barbara Laws and Tommy Lee Grimmer, who have both been documenting the people who inhabit Great Yarmouth through different lenses.
Both bodies of work have been commissioned by Utter Nonsense.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Looking Back
Barbara Laws
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 2nd June to Sunday 2nd July
A series of photographs called Nottingham Portraits, which were taken in the late 1970s. During her time living in the Meadows area from 1974 to 1977, Barbara Laws' witnessed the neighbourhood's demolition for redevelopment and the disappearance of an entire world and its history. This experience inspired her to enroll in a documentary photography course and capture the life around her.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists Talk
Jason Evans & Tamu Nkiwane
The Viper Room (The Empire Basement), 43 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 24th June, 2023
A great opportunity to hear from a couple of artists working across various media.
Jason Evans and Tamu Nkiwane, will share their approaches to art making, discussing their inspirations and techniques which encompass photography, curation, film-making and sound production.
Jason Evans grew up in Great Yarmouth, and began to attain notoriety thanks to his highly innovative and radical series of photographs titled 'Strictly' which was published by i-D magazine in 1991 (which is part of the Tate's collection). jasonevans.info/ & www.thedailynice.com/
Jason has gone on to be included in and curate numerous exhibitions, produce artwork and take portraits for various musicians and celebrities including Four Tet, Grayson Perry, Radiohead, Ronaldo and more. He has recently undertaken various projects with community groups including the Garden Gate Project in Margate. He has also worked with residents from Herring House to collaboratively form C L A Y H E M - a group who created a musical performance using a collection of studio pottery for YARMONICS. You can hear recording of performance by C L A Y H E M here.
Tamu Nkiwane uses punk approaches to explore heritage and identity through various media, including film-making, sculpture, activism, music and more. www.rca.ac.uk/students/tamu-nkiwane/
His short moving image work 'Apocrypha', "a conversation about heritage and spiritualism with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) who lives and works in a barber shop in Walthamstow" was featured in the BBC's New Creatives series. See it here.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists Performance and Music
Serf (Tamu Nkiwane, Bess and Tazelaar Stevenson)
and The The Mariner of Danu.
The Viper Room (The Empire Basement), 43 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 24th June, 2023
Following the talks, there will be an evening of performance and music, featuring Serf (Tamu Nkiwane, Bess and Tazelaar Stevenson) and The The Mariner of Danu.
Part of Lifting the Horizon, an 18-month organisational and development project delivered by originalprojects; and funded by Arts Council England.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
EX VOTO
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
1st April to Sunday 28th May
Alexa De Ferranti | Amy Hale | Andrew Kerton | Ar Cook | Ben Burgis | Cicely Travers | Claire Stein | Eilidh Duffy | Ghostlore of Britain | Haydon Saunders | HYDRA (agf) | Ilker Cinarel | Jonathan Hayter | Katie Shannon | Keira Fox | Lucy Willow | Margaret Hartnett | Maria Christoforidou | Natalie Dray | Nat Kochan | Nell Peto | Nina Royle | özlem Altin | Penny Florence | Phoebe Collings James | Rafaela Ascanio | Rosie Mullan | Steve Claydon | The Mary Ley Line Pilgrimage | Tom Wheatley | Zoe Williams
Lucy Stein and Sarah Hartnett have been undertaking a pilgrimage along the Mary ley line since 2019. The journey has served as a generative catalyst for multiple collaborations, shows and events, as well as offering space for transformative action. The pilgrimage is a site of social context where a multiplicity of cultural contents enmesh and produce diverse types: whether heterodox, mythical, formal or informal, they reveal the eternal behind the common place.
They wish to feel their way towards a new understanding of exhibiting through found objects, artworks, music and relational events, to forge a kind and quiet esotericism that can’t be pinned down in name but that fights from within.
See Accompanying Events:
The Mary Ley Line Pilgrimage in Conversation & NOX VOTO
COMMUNITY MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT
NOX VOTO
The Jube, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 6th May 2023
An evening of performance, anarchic folk and forays into the carnivalesque curated by Tom Wheatley & Sarah Hartnett.
LIVE
Simon Finn with Joolie Wood - singer/songwriter psychedelic folk legend.
Richard Blake - One of the last remaining master dulcimer players in East Anglia.
Tom Wheatley - Patterns, rhythms and cycles, at an interface of physical and digital zones.
With DJ sets from:
tlc23 - an emancipatory rage & collective support DJ set from artists Katie Shannon & Keira Fox
Ghostlore - Artists Sarah Hartnett & Kieron Livingstone An exploration into the darker sides of folk, interspersed with industrial, dub, choral melodies and UK dance.
Sou Varine - old-school old-soul / $1-£2 bin records hoarder digging obscure 1988-92 gems, no matter what genre. Always having a touch of mid90s Trance & hi-NRG!
FeelOmen - a dark and light DJset of drones and rhythms for cathartic release
Punctuating the running order, readings and performances from artists Katie Shannon, Rosie Mullan and Neal T.
Many thanks to all the artists taking part.
This workshop paves the way for a National Creative Summit in Great Yarmouth in 2024.
In connection with:
This event is included as part of the Norfolk & Suffolk Culture Boards’ Roving Summit linking to the Culture Drives Impact Manifesto Theme 3 'Dynamism & Innovation'.
Delivered with the support of University of East Anglia (Creative UEA and Civic University), Norwich University of the Arts and CVAN (Contemporary Visual Arts Network England).
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Duologues
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Part 1: PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth, 1st -16th April
Part 2: The Cut, Halesworth, 25 April - 10 June
A two-part exhibition of work by artists who collaborate.
Nelson and Woodward (Sheffield) | Dunhill and O'Brien (London) | Tool/Toy Project (Norwich & London) | Bonvin and Eden (Norwich)
Supported by the East Anglia Art Fund
(Image: 'Shielding' by Dunhill and O'Brien)
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
What is Model?
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
part 1, What is Model? fig. 1 Exploration (Saturday 3rd December to Friday 22nd December 2022)
part 2, What is Model? fig. 2 Generation (Saturday 8 February to Sunday 26 March 2023)
Alan Kane & Simon Periton | Alistair Nicholls | Charlotte Dawson | Chris Jackson | Debby Besford | HAT Projects | Jimmy Cauty | Malaki Fox | Mally Mallinson | Matthew Houlding | Merrivale Model Village | Rory Cleary | Ryan Gander | Sean Hancock | The Hippodrome Circus Museum | The Great Yarmouth Model Boat Club
Models are never complete. Whether used as a tool for ‘thinking through’, a form of collaborative play, or a way of constructing speculative realities, model-making is iterative by nature.
It is in that spirit that originalprojects; opens the latest phase of 'What is Model?', a multi-part exhibition exploring the many meanings of modelling - from the everyday and familiar to the bizarre.
Through a diverse collection of works 'What is Model?' considers modelling from many angles, both straightforward and oblique. The exhibition takes as its starting point the stereotype of the man retreating to his shed to build a boat and then quickly collapses it, encouraging visitors to consider models and model-making not (only) as a tool of replication or mimesis but also as an exploratory medium that can help us to understand ourselves better, and to imagine radically different futures.
EXHIBITION SCHOOLS COMMUNITY
Let's ENJOY Exhibition
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Wednesday 15th to Sunday 26th March
An exhibition of artworks created by pupils from:
Caister Junior | Caister Infant | Reedham Primary | Winterton Primary | St George's Primary | St Nicholas CE VA Primary
ENJOY, Great Yarmouth's Cultural Education Partnership in Great Yarmouth (CEP) was successful in an Arts Council grant bid, enabling a programme of events to celebrate the 10th anniversary of the partnership. The project - Let's ENJOY - is being delivered by CEP partners to local primary schools, to reengage, reconnect and reinvigorate relationships in the wake of COVID.
Part of the programme has already been delivered, including visual arts and 3D art workshops, and some fantastic artwork has been created by the children taking part.
"Thanks to fantastic partners, lead artist Genevieve Rudd, supported by emerging artist Sara Moreira, and arts organisation originalprojects; for delivering these superb workshops."
Matt will read from the book, and discuss the key clubs and raves that took place around Great Yarmouth with DJ Richie (Andrew Riches). The event will be chaired by writer and curator, Jonathan P Watts.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY TOURING
Finding Emerson
The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park
Wednesday 2 November to Friday 16 December 2022
originalprojects; & Utter Nonsense have been working with colleagues at CreativeUEA to present a selection of photographs first shown in Great Yarmouth as part of the inaugural Finding Emerson Festival Photo Festival in 2021 at the Enterprise Centre (University of East Anglia).
Contemporary photographs of Great Yarmouth taken by residents of Great Yarmouth highlighting local people and scenes which show the familiar, the funny and the interesting from behind a camera lens are shown alongside images of East Anglia by pioneering Victorian photographer, artist, naturalist, physician and writer Peter Henry Emerson who was drawn to rural subjects and was fascinated by East Anglia's traditional ways of life.
This is an opportunity for new audiences to not only discover Great Yarmouth's photographic pedigree - past and present - but also a chance to present an authentic image of the town from local perspectives.
Special thanks to CreativeUEA and Adnams for their support.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Women Walking Wild
Under Open Sky curated by project participants and JMCAnderson
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Wednesday 12th October to Sunday 20th November 2022
Women Walking Wild was produced by Under Open Sky and took place in Great Yarmouth (Spring - Autumn 2022,) connecting eco-therapist Beth Stephens and community artist Genevieve Rudd with women from Feathers Futures.
originalprojects; are honoured to welcome Under Open Sky to PRIMEYARC this autumn to present artwork, photographs and found objects derived from their walking experiences.
Women Walking Wild aimed to nurture nature-connection and understand more about the local environment by creating space for shared positive social experiences, using sustainable, creative and holistic approaches. The project group went on walks around the local area, including the beach, parks and cemetery and sessions included reflective artwork, writing, learning about habitats and holistic well-being activities, such as guided breathing and grounding.
More than just learning about wildlife, the project facilitators made space for participants to feel deeply connected to the landscape. Beth Stephens brought in approaches from her eco-therapeutic nature-connection practice and Genevieve Rudd led creative arts-based activities to get closer to the environment. As a result, participants’ well-being was supported by a closer relationship with the changing seasons.
The project was funded by National Lottery Community Fund
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Culture Connects
curator JMCAnderson
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Wednesday 12th October to Sunday 20th November 2022
Launched with a day-long event Culture Connects celebrates Norfolk Black History Month and invites audiences to consider cultural healing, well-being and community through FREE workshops, visual arts and more.
Culture Connects; to healing and recovery through creativity, spirituality, ritual, dreams and the power of words.
"Our culture will live on as long as our stories are told and our knowledge constantly transmitted through oral tradition for evolving, storing, and transmitting knowledge, art, and ideas. Reconnecting with our culture and ancestral roots today can help us find our sense of belonging in a world that can make us feel alienated, othered and alone as we attempt to weave stories together and recognize ourselves in them." - JMC Anderson.
Tricia Mercer David: Connect, Celebrate, Create: Illustration Workshop
Rosalyn McLean: Zine Making Workshop
Rosy May: The Islands: A Caribbean dance film
Sheringham Little Theatre: We Are One: A series of short films on Norfolk Migration
The Concrete Collective: Degrees Of Belonging: Building Togetherness
Karis Upton: Visual Art
JMCAnderson: Visual Art
Afro Diaspora Apparel: Upcycled & reworked clothing and accessories
... + more!
Special thanks to Norfolk Black History Month and CreativeUEA for their support.
PUBLIC ART OFF-SITE
MdZ ESTATE Tour
Jimmy Cauty
The (Dis)Pleasure Beach Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk N30 3EH
Until 4th September 2022 (open again summer 2023)
Jimmy Cauty's ESTATE has landed in Great Yarmouth providing a fully immersive dystopian model village experience. The walk-through installation features four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale (approx 2 metres high) housed in a 40ft shipping container. There is no sign of the inhabitants, alarm bells ring and TV sets have been left on, a BBC news bulletin gives some insight into the sudden mass exodus. Audiences are invited to view the evacuated residences, and question what might have happened and what it all means...
The experience includes smoke, strobe lighting, wind, loud noise, and tiny TV broadcasts. Suitable for children and adults over 5.
EXHIBITION
THE BLOCK CHAIN OF SILENCE
Bill Drummond
On display in one of the windows of PRIMEYARC between the 2nd and 26th of August 2022
The 25 Tribute Paintings of Silence exist in the material world to represent THE BLOCK CHAIN OF SILENCE existence in whatever other worlds You might imagine to exist.
EXHIBITION COMMUNITY
studioUS
originalprojects; | OUTPOST Studios | The Art Station
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 14th May to Sunday 24 July 2022
studioUS, a survey exhibition featuring over 70 artists, interrogates some of the functions, activities and outputs of artists’ studios and their networks. Artists’ studios provide vital space for production, presentation, connection and exchange, activities that are often hidden from public view.
The function of art schools as studio spaces is also an element of the exhibition, providing students from Norwich University of the Arts a dynamic space for the production, discussion and presentation of work. Students from East Coast College and University of Suffolk have also presented a photography exhibition during the show.
Lectures, talks, screenings, socials etc and will be shaped and informed during the installation in response to participants' inclusions, ideas and concerns took place across venues.
EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Debby Besford:
The Art of Roller Skating
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
5 March - 1 May 2022
The Art of Roller Skating is an exhibition by artist and documentary photographer Debby Besford, celebrating the artistic roller skating heritage of Great Yarmouth.
Debby grew up in Great Yarmouth, where she trained as an artistic roller-skater as a teenager, and also went on to become a national skating judge, travelling all over the country to skating competitions.
The exhibition will also incorporate stories, artefacts and memorabilia invited from the community, to activate relationships, events and activities throughout the show.
Link for Press Release
Funded by Arts Council England and the Postcode Lottery Trust.
EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Photographing the Borough &
The People's Archive of Great Yarmouth
PRIMEYARC and various locations in and around Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
23 March - 27 March 2022
The People's Archive of Great Yarmouth was launched during the Finding Emerson Photographic Festival in 2021. This year the Archive worked with, Paint The Town, a Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Borough-wide arts, culture, heritage, and food event (Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th March 2022).
Photographing the Borough invited photographers from all walks of life - professional, amateur, student, artist, or just passionate observers of the world we inhabit - to submit images from across the Borough of Great Yarmouth, celebrating the diverse nature of the place and its people.
Selection panel: Debby Besford, Mark Cator.
COMMUNITY EVENT ENTERPRISE SOCIAL
JUMBLIST MASSIVE
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Established 19 & 20 February 2022
Trade (buy/ sell) preloved and vintage, hand made and customised wears & wares.
+ Pop-up activities and demonstration stations (i.e. sewing and custom T-shirt bar, repairs and mending cafe)
+ Table Tennis, snacks and hot drinks.
+ Live DJs and jamming to provide the vibes.
+Tours of the studio spaces to find out more about GY's creative community and ways to get involved and develop your own talent.
Link for details on how you can apply to take part in the future
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
FINDING EMERSON OPEN
Part of the Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
An open submission photographic survey of contemporary Great Yarmouth showing images from 70+ entrants.
Produced in collaboration with Utter Nonsense.
Funded by Arts Council England and the Postcode Lottery Trust.
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PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Jason Evans: Signs of Life
Presented as part of Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
Collected images shot using medium format Hasselblad camera and shooting film by participants attending photo walkshops. The activity was included in Yarmouth Springs Eternal and coincided with the Summer Solstice 2021.
Jason Evans was also a judge for Finding Emerson Open.
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Debby Besford: Boat People
Part of the Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
Finding Emerson Open judge Debby Besford presents recent photographs documenting members of the Great Yarmouth Model Boat Club based at the Venitetan Waterways. Part of an ongoing engagement with the group.
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES TALKS
WHO ATE MY UNCLE? by Bill Drummond
Part of the The 25 Paintings World Tour (2014-2026)
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
10 September - 17 October 2021
Link to press release
Link to text by Bill Drummond
EXHIBITION AUDIO WORKSHOP TALKS
Yarmonics
Great Yarmouth
September 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
The annual festival of site-specific new music & sound hosted across venues and intimate hidden spaces in Great Yarmouth.
Link to NEW SOUND MAP
Produced in collaboration with Eastern Ear
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GENERAL PROGRAMME
WEBSITE BACKDATE PENDING
Projects 2020-2021
Come back soon!!
EXHIBITION
Between Us: Biennial Conversations and Exchanges
Ex Marks the Spot, Great Yarmouth
University of Suffolk, Ipswich
September 2019
EXHIBITION PUBLIC ART WRITING
Ryan Gander, One-Twelfth
Merrivale Model Village / Norwich and Norfolk Festival
10 May to 30 December 2019
EXHIBITION PUBLIC ART EVENT FOOD&DRINK
New Geographies + Ian Giles
EVENT CONFERENCE
Creative Centres Summit
St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth
14 May 2019
EXHIBITION
At the End of Lines
Ex Marks the Spot
11 May to 13 July 2019
EXHIBITION PRODUCT
Great Yarmouth Contemporary
Art, Craft and Design Fair
10 to 23 December 2019
EXHIBITION WRITING PUBLICATION
The Annotated Reader
Ryan Gander & Jonathan P Watts
Locations across Great Yarmouth
10 to 23 December 2019
WORKSHOP
Make Yarmouth
169 King Street
2 June to 1 November 2019
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION EVENT
Clare Sams + Broa Sams, Fatberg
167a King Street, Great Yarmouth
23 December 2017 to 24 February 2018
ONLINE
#ISpyGY
Open-source research exercise
2016 > present
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION
Glenn Jamieson, Approaches
St Johns Church, Great Yarmouth
25 June to 26 July 2016
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION
Life & Leisure: Postcards from (and to) Great Yarmouth
30 June to 17 July 2016
PRODUCT
Tristan Howe, Great Yarmouth temporary tattoos
June 2016
EVENT WRITING
1 WOW OF A TIME! The Great Yarmouth Day Trip
25 June 2016
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES INSTALLATION EVENTS FOOD & DRINK
Eastern Prospects
Research Project
April - August 2016
Projects: (Current/ Live)
Saturday 21 October to Sunday 17 December
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Joanna Holland’s exhibition, ‘Out of the Blue’, shares her lived experience of chronic illness. It brings together photographs, video, soundscapes and text from different bodies of work created over the last three years.
originalprojects; opens its doors for an evening dedicated to raising awareness and funds in solidarity with Palestine.
We are pleased to present a screening of compelling films from and about Palestine. These screenings were made possible with support from the Palestine Film Institute in collaboration with the Ministry of Culture-Palestine.
Please be aware that although some films are child-friendly, others do contain distressing images and themes. We want this event to be accessible for everyone, and while some of the films may not be appropriate for all, we will have a play corner and flag-making table set-up for children & families as the films play if anyone wants to bring children.
Additionally, Global Kitchen will be setting up a food stall, available for purchase throughout the night.
While admission to this event is free, we encourage attendees to consider making a donation at the door. The proceeds from both the food stall and any contributions received during the evening will be channeled towards Medical Aid for Palestinians (MAP), aiding in the provision of vital services on the ground in Gaza.
We believe this screening serves a dual purpose: not only to raise funds for the dedicated medical professionals in Gaza but also to foster unity during these divisive times. We extend an invitation to come together, watch, learn, and cultivate awareness through the power of film. While donations are appreciated, no one will be turned away for lack of funds.
As this event is expected to reach capacity, we kindly ask you to reserve your free ticket in advance. Let's stand together for a meaningful cause and make a positive impact on the lives of those in need.
PrimeYarc, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 8th December
5 pm - 7 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Daniel Eatock will talk about his diverse creative practice that comfortably flits between design, graphic design, visual art, conceptual art, and the undefined.
Find out more about Daniel's work via www.eatock.com
This event is free and all are welcome. Please book a space via Eventbrite.
This talk is delivered as part of originalprojects;' Arts Council funded project 'Lifting the Horizon', which incorporates a 'Designing the Real World', including talks by artists and professionals in art and design-related areas, workshops to develop skills, opportunities to have tutorials with artists and curators and make together.
Friday 22 March, 2024
Great Yarmouth
A day of talks, case studies, and relationship-building that consider the changing landscape of arts education. How do the ways in which we 'teach' the arts reflect or determine the culture we live in? How are radical and forward-thinking organisations bringing new models for teaching and learning to places traditionally ignored by legacy arts institutions? And how can we build collective and individual practices that enable ambitious work within ever-more constrained material conditions?
FULL PROGRAMME available via at https://contracurricular.co.uk/
Register now for CONTRAcurricular and help build new futures in arts education.
DEVELOPMENTAL
LIFTING THE HORIZON
originalprojects
Ends June 2024
An innovative 18-month programme of:
Supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England, additional support from Great Yarmouth Borough Council, University of East Anglia(Creative UEAandCivic University), Norwich University of the Arts and CVAN(Contemporary Visual Arts Network England).
Projects: (Seasonal)
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 17th October
12 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Projects: (Past)
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
The Independents
Tommy Lee Grimmer
Great Yarmouth Portraits
Barbara Laws
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 2nd June to Sunday 2nd July
A joint photography exhibition of the work of Barbara Laws and Tommy Lee Grimmer, who have both been documenting the people who inhabit Great Yarmouth through different lenses.
Both bodies of work have been commissioned by Utter Nonsense.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Looking Back
Barbara Laws
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Friday 2nd June to Sunday 2nd July
A series of photographs called Nottingham Portraits, which were taken in the late 1970s. During her time living in the Meadows area from 1974 to 1977, Barbara Laws' witnessed the neighbourhood's demolition for redevelopment and the disappearance of an entire world and its history. This experience inspired her to enroll in a documentary photography course and capture the life around her.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists Performance and Music
Serf (Tamu Nkiwane, Bess and Tazelaar Stevenson)
and The The Mariner of Danu.
The Viper Room (The Empire Basement), 43 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 24th June, 2023
Following the talks, there will be an evening of performance and music, featuring Serf (Tamu Nkiwane, Bess and Tazelaar Stevenson) and The The Mariner of Danu.
Part of Lifting the Horizon, an 18-month organisational and development project delivered by originalprojects; and funded by Arts Council England.
ARTISTS LEARNING CPD
Artists Talk
Jason Evans & Tamu Nkiwane
The Viper Room (The Empire Basement), 43 Marine Parade, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 24th June, 2023
A great opportunity to hear from a couple of artists working across various media.
Jason Evans and Tamu Nkiwane, will share their approaches to art making, discussing their inspirations and techniques which encompass photography, curation, film-making and sound production.
Jason Evans grew up in Great Yarmouth, and began to attain notoriety thanks to his highly innovative and radical series of photographs titled 'Strictly' which was published by i-D magazine in 1991 (which is part of the Tate's collection). jasonevans.info/ & www.thedailynice.com/
Jason has gone on to be included in and curate numerous exhibitions, produce artwork and take portraits for various musicians and celebrities including Four Tet, Grayson Perry, Radiohead, Ronaldo and more. He has recently undertaken various projects with community groups including the Garden Gate Project in Margate. He has also worked with residents from Herring House to collaboratively form C L A Y H E M - a group who created a musical performance using a collection of studio pottery for YARMONICS. You can hear recording of performance by C L A Y H E M here.
Tamu Nkiwane uses punk approaches to explore heritage and identity through various media, including film-making, sculpture, activism, music and more. www.rca.ac.uk/students/tamu-nkiwane/
His short moving image work 'Apocrypha', "a conversation about heritage and spiritualism with a Sangoma (South African spiritualist) who lives and works in a barber shop in Walthamstow" was featured in the BBC's New Creatives series. See it here.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
EX VOTO
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
1st April to Sunday 28th May
Alexa De Ferranti | Amy Hale | Andrew Kerton | Ar Cook | Ben Burgis | Cicely Travers | Claire Stein | Eilidh Duffy | Ghostlore of Britain | Haydon Saunders | HYDRA (agf) | Ilker Cinarel | Jonathan Hayter | Katie Shannon | Keira Fox | Lucy Willow | Margaret Hartnett | Maria Christoforidou | Natalie Dray | Nat Kochan | Nell Peto | Nina Royle | özlem Altin | Penny Florence | Phoebe Collings James | Rafaela Ascanio | Rosie Mullan | Steve Claydon | The Mary Ley Line Pilgrimage | Tom Wheatley | Zoe Williams
Lucy Stein and Sarah Hartnett have been undertaking a pilgrimage along the Mary ley line since 2019. The journey has served as a generative catalyst for multiple collaborations, shows and events, as well as offering space for transformative action. The pilgrimage is a site of social context where a multiplicity of cultural contents enmesh and produce diverse types: whether heterodox, mythical, formal or informal, they reveal the eternal behind the common place.
They wish to feel their way towards a new understanding of exhibiting through found objects, artworks, music and relational events, to forge a kind and quiet esotericism that can’t be pinned down in name but that fights from within.
See Accompanying Events:
The Mary Ley Line Pilgrimage in Conversation & NOX VOTO
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Duologues
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Part 1: PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth, 1st -16th April
Part 2: The Cut, Halesworth, 25 April - 10 June
A two-part exhibition of work by artists who collaborate.
Nelson and Woodward (Sheffield) | Dunhill and O'Brien (London) | Tool/Toy Project (Norwich & London) | Bonvin and Eden (Norwich)
Supported by the East Anglia Art Fund
(Image: 'Shielding' by Dunhill and O'Brien)
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
What is Model?
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
part 1, What is Model? fig. 1 Exploration (Saturday 3rd December to Friday 22nd December 2022)
part 2, What is Model? fig. 2 Generation (Saturday 8 February to Sunday 26 March 2023)
Alan Kane & Simon Periton | Alistair Nicholls | Charlotte Dawson | Chris Jackson | Debby Besford | HAT Projects | Jimmy Cauty | Malaki Fox | Mally Mallinson | Matthew Houlding | Merrivale Model Village | Rory Cleary | Ryan Gander | Sean Hancock | The Hippodrome Circus Museum | The Great Yarmouth Model Boat Club
Models are never complete. Whether used as a tool for ‘thinking through’, a form of collaborative play, or a way of constructing speculative realities, model-making is iterative by nature.
It is in that spirit that originalprojects; opens the latest phase of 'What is Model?', a multi-part exhibition exploring the many meanings of modelling - from the everyday and familiar to the bizarre.
Through a diverse collection of works 'What is Model?' considers modelling from many angles, both straightforward and oblique. The exhibition takes as its starting point the stereotype of the man retreating to his shed to build a boat and then quickly collapses it, encouraging visitors to consider models and model-making not (only) as a tool of replication or mimesis but also as an exploratory medium that can help us to understand ourselves better, and to imagine radically different futures.
Matt will read from the book, and discuss the key clubs and raves that took place around Great Yarmouth with DJ Richie (Andrew Riches). The event will be chaired by writer and curator, Jonathan P Watts.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY TOURING
Finding Emerson
The Enterprise Centre, University of East Anglia, Norwich Research Park
Wednesday 2 November to Friday 16 December 2022
originalprojects; & Utter Nonsense have been working with colleagues at CreativeUEA to present a selection of photographs first shown in Great Yarmouth as part of the inaugural Finding Emerson Festival Photo Festival in 2021 at the Enterprise Centre (University of East Anglia).
Contemporary photographs of Great Yarmouth taken by residents of Great Yarmouth highlighting local people and scenes which show the familiar, the funny and the interesting from behind a camera lens are shown alongside images of East Anglia by pioneering Victorian photographer, artist, naturalist, physician and writer Peter Henry Emerson who was drawn to rural subjects and was fascinated by East Anglia's traditional ways of life.
This is an opportunity for new audiences to not only discover Great Yarmouth's photographic pedigree - past and present - but also a chance to present an authentic image of the town from local perspectives.
Special thanks to CreativeUEA and Adnams for their support.
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Women Walking Wild
Under Open Sky curated by project participants and JMCAnderson
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Wednesday 12th October to Sunday 20th November 2022
Women Walking Wild was produced by Under Open Sky and took place in Great Yarmouth (Spring - Autumn 2022,) connecting eco-therapist Beth Stephens and community artist Genevieve Rudd with women from Feathers Futures.
originalprojects; are honoured to welcome Under Open Sky to PRIMEYARC this autumn to present artwork, photographs and found objects derived from their walking experiences.
Women Walking Wild aimed to nurture nature-connection and understand more about the local environment by creating space for shared positive social experiences, using sustainable, creative and holistic approaches. The project group went on walks around the local area, including the beach, parks and cemetery and sessions included reflective artwork, writing, learning about habitats and holistic well-being activities, such as guided breathing and grounding.
More than just learning about wildlife, the project facilitators made space for participants to feel deeply connected to the landscape. Beth Stephens brought in approaches from her eco-therapeutic nature-connection practice and Genevieve Rudd led creative arts-based activities to get closer to the environment. As a result, participants’ well-being was supported by a closer relationship with the changing seasons.
The project was funded by National Lottery Community Fund
EXHIBITION EVENT COMMUNITY
Culture Connects
curator JMCAnderson
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Wednesday 12th October to Sunday 20th November 2022
Launched with a day-long event Culture Connects celebrates Norfolk Black History Month and invites audiences to consider cultural healing, well-being and community through FREE workshops, visual arts and more.
Culture Connects; to healing and recovery through creativity, spirituality, ritual, dreams and the power of words.
"Our culture will live on as long as our stories are told and our knowledge constantly transmitted through oral tradition for evolving, storing, and transmitting knowledge, art, and ideas. Reconnecting with our culture and ancestral roots today can help us find our sense of belonging in a world that can make us feel alienated, othered and alone as we attempt to weave stories together and recognize ourselves in them." - JMC Anderson.
Tricia Mercer David: Connect, Celebrate, Create: Illustration Workshop
Rosalyn McLean: Zine Making Workshop
Rosy May: The Islands: A Caribbean dance film
Sheringham Little Theatre: We Are One: A series of short films on Norfolk Migration
The Concrete Collective: Degrees Of Belonging: Building Togetherness
Karis Upton: Visual Art
JMCAnderson: Visual Art
Afro Diaspora Apparel: Upcycled & reworked clothing and accessories
... + more!
Special thanks to Norfolk Black History Month and CreativeUEA for their support.
PUBLIC ART OFF-SITE
MdZ ESTATE Tour
Jimmy Cauty
The (Dis)Pleasure Beach Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk N30 3EH
Until 4th September 2022 (open again summer 2023)
Jimmy Cauty's ESTATE has landed in Great Yarmouth providing a fully immersive dystopian model village experience. The walk-through installation features four abandoned concrete tower blocks at 1:24 scale (approx 2 metres high) housed in a 40ft shipping container. There is no sign of the inhabitants, alarm bells ring and TV sets have been left on, a BBC news bulletin gives some insight into the sudden mass exodus. Audiences are invited to view the evacuated residences, and question what might have happened and what it all means...
The experience includes smoke, strobe lighting, wind, loud noise, and tiny TV broadcasts. Suitable for children and adults over 5.
EXHIBITION
THE BLOCK CHAIN OF SILENCE
Bill Drummond
On display in one of the windows of PRIMEYARC between the 2nd and 26th of August 2022
The 25 Tribute Paintings of Silence exist in the material world to represent THE BLOCK CHAIN OF SILENCE existence in whatever other worlds You might imagine to exist.
EXHIBITION COMMUNITY
studioUS
originalprojects; | OUTPOST Studios | The Art Station
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Saturday 14th May to Sunday 24 July 2022
studioUS, a survey exhibition featuring over 70 artists, interrogates some of the functions, activities and outputs of artists’ studios and their networks. Artists’ studios provide vital space for production, presentation, connection and exchange, activities that are often hidden from public view.
The function of art schools as studio spaces is also an element of the exhibition, providing students from Norwich University of the Arts a dynamic space for the production, discussion and presentation of work. Students from East Coast College and University of Suffolk have also presented a photography exhibition during the show.
Lectures, talks, screenings, socials etc and will be shaped and informed during the installation in response to participants' inclusions, ideas and concerns took place across venues.
EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Debby Besford:
The Art of Roller Skating
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
5 March - 1 May 2022
The Art of Roller Skating is an exhibition by artist and documentary photographer Debby Besford, celebrating the artistic roller skating heritage of Great Yarmouth.
Debby grew up in Great Yarmouth, where she trained as an artistic roller-skater as a teenager, and also went on to become a national skating judge, travelling all over the country to skating competitions.
The exhibition will also incorporate stories, artefacts and memorabilia invited from the community, to activate relationships, events and activities throughout the show.
Link for Press Release
Funded by Arts Council England and the Postcode Lottery Trust.
EXHIBITION PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Photographing the Borough &
The People's Archive of Great Yarmouth
PRIMEYARC and various locations in and around Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
23 March - 27 March 2022
The People's Archive of Great Yarmouth was launched during the Finding Emerson Photographic Festival in 2021. This year the Archive worked with, Paint The Town, a Great Yarmouth, Gorleston and Borough-wide arts, culture, heritage, and food event (Wednesday 23rd to Sunday 27th March 2022).
Photographing the Borough invited photographers from all walks of life - professional, amateur, student, artist, or just passionate observers of the world we inhabit - to submit images from across the Borough of Great Yarmouth, celebrating the diverse nature of the place and its people.
Selection panel: Debby Besford, Mark Cator.
COMMUNITY EVENT ENTERPRISE SOCIAL
JUMBLIST MASSIVE
PRIMEYARC, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth
Established 19 & 20 February 2022
Trade (buy/ sell) preloved and vintage, hand made and customised wears & wares.
+ Pop-up activities and demonstration stations (i.e. sewing and custom T-shirt bar, repairs and mending cafe)
+ Table Tennis, snacks and hot drinks.
+ Live DJs and jamming to provide the vibes.
+Tours of the studio spaces to find out more about GY's creative community and ways to get involved and develop your own talent.
Link for details on how you can apply to take part in the future
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
FINDING EMERSON OPEN
Part of the Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
An open submission photographic survey of contemporary Great Yarmouth showing images from 70+ entrants.
Produced in collaboration with Utter Nonsense.
Funded by Arts Council England and the Postcode Lottery Trust.
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PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Jason Evans: Signs of Life
Presented as part of Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
Collected images shot using medium format Hasselblad camera and shooting film by participants attending photo walkshops. The activity was included in Yarmouth Springs Eternal and coincided with the Summer Solstice 2021.
Jason Evans was also a judge for Finding Emerson Open.
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION FESTIVAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMMUNITY
Debby Besford: Boat People
Part of the Finding Emerson Photography Festival 2021
Finding Emerson Open judge Debby Besford presents recent photographs documenting members of the Great Yarmouth Model Boat Club based at the Venitetan Waterways. Part of an ongoing engagement with the group.
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
30 November - 24 December 2021
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES TALKS
WHO ATE MY UNCLE? by Bill Drummond
Part of the The 25 Paintings World Tour (2014-2026)
PRIMEYARC, Great Yarmouth
10 September - 17 October 2021
Link to press release
Link to text by Bill Drummond
GENERAL PROGRAMME
WEBSITE BACKDATE PENDING
Projects 2020-2021
Come back soon!!
EXHIBITION AUDIO WORKSHOP TALKS
Yarmonics
Great Yarmouth
September 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018
The annual festival of site-specific new music & sound hosted across venues and intimate hidden spaces in Great Yarmouth.
Link to NEW SOUND MAP
Produced in collaboration with Eastern Ear
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EXHIBITION
Between Us: Biennial Conversations and Exchanges
Ex Marks the Spot, Great Yarmouth
University of Suffolk, Ipswich
September 2019
EXHIBITION PUBLIC ART WRITING
Ryan Gander, One-Twelfth
Merrivale Model Village / Norwich and Norfolk Festival
10 May to 30 December 2019
EXHIBITION PUBLIC ART EVENT FOOD&DRINK
New Geographies + Ian Giles
EVENT CONFERENCE
Creative Centres Summit
St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth
14 May 2019
EXHIBITION
At the End of Lines
Ex Marks the Spot
11 May to 13 July 2019
EXHIBITION PRODUCT
Great Yarmouth Contemporary
Art, Craft and Design Fair
10 to 23 December 2019
EXHIBITION WRITING PUBLICATION
The Annotated Reader
Ryan Gander & Jonathan P Watts
Locations across Great Yarmouth
10 to 23 December 2019
WORKSHOP
Make Yarmouth
169 King Street
2 June to 1 November 2019
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION EVENT
Clare Sams + Broa Sams, Fatberg
167a King Street, Great Yarmouth
23 December 2017 to 24 February 2018
ONLINE
#ISpyGY
Open-source research exercise
2016 > present
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION
Glenn Jamieson, Approaches
St Johns Church, Great Yarmouth
25 June to 26 July 2016
EXHIBITION INSTALLATION
Life & Leisure: Postcards from (and to) Great Yarmouth
30 June to 17 July 2016
PRODUCT
Tristan Howe, Great Yarmouth temporary tattoos
June 2016
EVENT WRITING
1 WOW OF A TIME! The Great Yarmouth Day Trip
25 June 2016
EXHIBITION PERFORMANCES INSTALLATION EVENTS FOOD & DRINK
Eastern Prospects
Research Project
April - August 2016