Led by artist Olivia Rodgers, participants explored drawing, painting, collage and mark-making before transforming their work into digital projections.
Bringing together traditional art-making and digital technology, Light Works celebrates creativity, collaboration and the unique perspectives of young people.
Developed through a Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bursary for Young Creatives, in partnership with originalprojects; and PrimeYarc, Creative Collisions and the National Saturday Club at Time and Tide Museum
and Norfolk Museums.
Presented by originalprojects; to coincide with Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride 2026.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Pride Open Exhibition, This Space Belongs to You celebrates LGBTQ+ creativity, visibility, expression and belonging.
The exhibition will include drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, digital work, fashion, film, creative writing, spoken word and performance.
Submissions are open to all, and especially encouraged from LGBTQ+ artists living or working in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, as well as first-time exhibitors.
Open Call - APPLY HERE
Submission deadline: Midnight, Sunday 12 July 2026
Applicants notified by: Sunday 19 July 2026
Opening event: Saturday 8 August 2026
Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride: Saturday 29 August 2026
Supported by Norfolk County Council.
go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams is a new ‘3-D collage’ exploring entanglements between nature, chronic illness and possibility. Presented as an ‘in-progress’ artwork, it has been created especially for this year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival .
Visual art, plants, text, cyanotypes, and naturally dyed yarns have been thoughtfully woven together to form an imagined garden of ideas. The work is an immersive experience, inviting responses to provocations around nature-connection, slowness, and different ways of being in the world.
Access
Access is integral to the project, with level access, rest spaces throughout, and accessible toilets available. Visitors are welcome to move through the exhibition at their own pace.
go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2025 commission with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, made possible with funding from Arts Council England.
*Image: conditions apply artist collective © conditions apply / Sebastian James Lister
The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between people living in and around Great Yarmouth, the *conditions apply artist collective — comprising Caroline Cardus, Ellery Child, Genevieve Rudd and Joanna Holland — and originalprojects;.
Over five months, *conditions apply curated a series of participatory experiences for residents who identify as living with chronic illness and/or as Disabled. People were welcomed into a gentle space which prioritised access, equity, conversation and creativity. Together, participants experimented with different artistic processes and co-created go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams.
*conditions apply are a collective of East Anglian artists who identify as living with chronic illness and/or as Disabled. The name is a wry take on the small print that no one ever reads, and an acknowledgement of the day-to-day impacts of medical conditions.
Read the project’s introductory blog: https://nnfestival.org.uk/stories/go-gently-into-the-garden-of-impossible-dreams/
We’re delighted to be collaborating again with Eastern Ear bring another YARMONICS event to Great Yarmouth. Following the adventurous programme of sound, performance and installation presented across the town last September, this weekend continues a growing partnership around experimental music and creative exchange.
As part of YARMONICS’ artist residency programme, radical cross-disciplinary arts organisation IKLECTIK will bring their 8.2 surround sound system to Great Yarmouth through the IKLECTIK Nomadic programme, supported by OUTLANDS’ Members Exchange Programme.
Across the weekend the system will be installed in the historic Ice House (Out There Arts), hosting a small programme of public events alongside workshops for young people taking part in the Play Produce Promote programme and developmental work with Magic Acorns.
Ice House
Bridge Rd, Great Yarmouth, NR31 0FL
Venue information:
https://outtherearts.org.uk/venue/ice-house
Wheelchair accessible
Limited Blue Badge parking on site
Paid parking at Stonecutters Quay
6-minute walk from Market Gates bus station
7-minute walk from Great Yarmouth train station
Pay What You Can - TICKETS HERE
A club night like no other, where sound moves around the space to create a rare three-dimensional listening experience.
Featuring live sets from:
Ireen Amnes – experimental electronic music spanning noise, techno and electroacoustic sound.
Nik Colk Void – electronic musician and artist working with voice, guitar and modular Eurorack systems.
Loula Yorke – composer and sound artist combining analogue synthesis, rhythm and sonic collage.
An immersive audiovisual environment created by Magic Acorns, a Great Yarmouth organisation specialising in multi-sensory creative experiences for babies and young children.
This is a drop-in session — visitors are welcome to stay for the full hour or join for a shorter visit.
Photo credit: Barn Jam, Charlotte Arkulus / Magic Acorns
FREE | 12–4pm
Roy previously joined us during Murmurations Week, where he led sessions exploring ecological thinking and collective learning, and later returned for OTHERWISE… [intensive] to run a hands-on foraging and composting workshop — each with a focus on St John’s Church garden and its future stewardship.
His visits have helped open up conversations around soil, care, fermentation, and how we might think differently about the relationship between people, place and growing.
This time we will turn our attention to the next practical step. Together we’ll explore holistic garden design, permaculture thinking and regenerative growing, before getting practical by designing and building cold frames ready for the upcoming seed-planting season.
Free. All welcome. Warm refreshments provided.
Monday 24 – Saturday 29 November 2025
Across Great Yarmouth
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
A public prototype for the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School — a week-long experiment in learning, making and thinking together, embedded across the town.
Through a mix of workshops, talks, walks, shared meals, and reflective discussions, otherwise… [Intensive] tests how Great Yarmouth itself can function as an open art school — using everyday spaces as classrooms and drawing on the knowledge and creativity of its people.
Part public programme, part research process, the week gathers insights on how we learn, what connects us, and what might come next.
All sessions are free, open to all, and wheelchair accessible.
Booking helps us plan food, materials, and access.
Book online | Download paper form email to info@originalprojects.co.uk
Saturday 8 – Sunday 23 November
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2BG
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
EXHIBITION
EXCISION - a gory exhibition
Jessie Dunnell
Wednesday 29 October - Sunday 2 November 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Jesse Dunnell presents their first solo exhibition.
Jesse Dunnellis a studio member at PrimeYarc. For information about spaces offered by originalprojects; please contact, spaces@originalprojects.co.uk.
EVENT
VOICE SIREN WALK
Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE)
in collaboration with Lomond Campbell
Friday 17 October: 2pm & Sunday 19 October: 2pm & 4pm
Great Yarmouth's beach edge, running from Sara's Tearooms, beside The Pleasure Beach, to the Premier Inn
FREE - BOOK HERE
The Voice Siren Walk is the outdoor strand of MAS(S) — a powerful sound art project by Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell.
A network of loudspeakers runs along the beach, transmitting an evolving soundscape created from the recorded testimonies of eight Ukrainian artists and refugees. Their voices, processed through generative sound sculptures, rise and fall across the coastline, culminating in a haunting siren call that echoes out to sea.
Audiences are invited to walk together along the beach edge, tracing this temporary sonic border and listening as the sound shifts with the landscape. It is both a collective act of listening and a poetic reflection on displacement, migration, and shared responsibility.
Meet outside the beach side of Sara’s Tearooms for the start of the walk. (The walk takes approximately 45 minutes. 2025)
The route is fully accessible, with nearby parking and toilets.
Co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.
Presented in partnership with Yarmonics, as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Supported by Arts Council England.
17 – 25 October
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2BG
FREE
MAS(S) is a new sound art project by Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell, exploring migration, refugees, war and loss through the human voice.
Inside PrimeYarc, specially designed generative sound sculptures transform the testimonies of eight Ukrainian artists and refugees into a 45-minute multi-channel soundscape. As the machines move and generate sound, visitors are invited to sit or stand and experience the evolving sonic environment, which culminates in a resonant siren call.
The artists describe MAS(S) as communal sound art — a space where voices and machines intertwine to form a powerful sonic narrative, calling us to listen and to act. The work honours real stories of displacement while inviting reflection on how we respond to migration today.
Accompanying the exhibition, Voice Siren Walks will take place along the beach path from Sara's Tearooms to the Premier Inn at 2pm on Friday 17 October and at 2pm & 4pm on Sunday 19 October.
EVENT
WELCOME
Belén Yáñez
Saturday 18 October, 10:00–13:00 & 15:00–18:00
Under Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth
FREE - BOOK HERE
Age Recommendation: 12+ (for participation)
Welcome approaches the concept of arrival as a moment of renewal and invitation. Set in unconventional locations and facilitated by performers, the work transforms everyday spaces into immersive landscapes, encouraging participants to engage with their surroundings — and each other — in fresh and imaginative ways.
Participants are equipped with full-face masks and headphones. The masks, symbolising identity diversity, prompt a shift in perception, while the headphones deliver a layered sound narrative of music, ambient sounds, and effects. Together with live facilitation, this creates a space for imaginative exploration, where familiar environments are experienced anew.
Rooted in a desire to foster welcoming atmospheres within communities, Welcome reflects on integration and cultural exchange through shared, embodied experience.
Co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.
Presented in partnership with Yarmonics, as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Supported by Arts Council England.
EXHIBITION
Beyond Sight
Oliver Jerrold
Friday 12 September - Sunday 5 October 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
'Beyond Sight' is a solo exhibition by Oliver Jerrold, presenting a series of abstract landscape energy paintings representing unseen energies — like waves, vibrations, and forces that move through sound, memory, and nature.
WORKSHOPS
Young YarMakers Friday Art Club
Every Friday during term time in 2025, 3.30-5.30pm
+ Summer Activities
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, Ages 12–16
Join an exciting free practical making and learning programme where you’ll:
Attend as many or as few sessions as you like – every session is unique!
EXHIBITION | WORKSHOPS
"GOT TO BE REAL"
Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride - Open Exhibition 2025
Saturday 16 August - Sunday 7, September 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Launches: Saturday 16 August, 12pm - 4pm (Performances, Workshops & Creative Fun)
Creative Workshops every Saturday
From an open call to the community, originalprojects; is proud to present our first exhibition in support of Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride, taking place this year on 6–7 September at various locations across Great Yarmouth. (See the Pride website for full details.)
This vibrant, inclusive exhibition features work from a wide mix of artists, makers, and community groups — from first-time exhibitors to established names — all celebrating creativity, identity, and community.
Artists include:
Alex Harvey, Ash Ford-McAllister, Chloë Hurst, David & Yakov, David Shenton, Emma Armstrong, Freshly Greated, Gary Hogben, Gena, Henri J Rex, Jay Goodbrave, John Barnard, Josi R., Katherine Gethin, Kyle Hussey-Orriss, Laurie Green, Linda Yvonne Pope, Many Selves, Rachel Collier-Wilson, Rebecca Constance Thomas, Sebastian Lister, Sen Thompson, Stephen Manning, Tavis Gray and Young YarMakers.
And don’t miss our Creative Workshops every Saturday — free to attend, open to all. Check our socials for the latest updates and details on each week’s activity.
Funded with the support of Norfolk County Council’s Arts Projects Grants.
Thanks to Henri, Josi, and CJ for their help in organising the exhibition, and Gray for design input.
EXHIBITION
BLUE PLAQUES
Emma Armstrong
Saturday 16 August - Sunday 7, September 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Launches: Saturday 16 August, 12pm - 4pm
WORKSHOPS
HOW TO SET UP AN ART SCHOOL, a workshop of sorts
By The Other MA (TOMA)
Wednesday 4 August, 2025
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, book here
Join us for an evening exploring the power and politics of alternative art education as part of the mini book launch tour of How to set up an art school. Emma Edmondson and Ames Pennington will host a workshop come conversation, looking at the themes of the book and asking what makes a bad art school, what makes a good one and how shared experiences can build a utopian space for creative learning together.
How to Set Up an Art School serves as a guide for artists looking to establish alternative art schools and those interested in the current state of contemporary art education. This event will act as a launch for the publication through some conversation, making and games to invite people in to imagine their own art schools.
Emma Edmondson and Ames Pennington have been involved in alternative art education for nearly a decade - Ames created illustrations for the publication and Emma contributed two essays and curated the book. This event will be a chance to explore the book deeper and all are welcome to join - whether you’re interested in art education, DIY practice, playful making or artist-run spaces!
How to Set Up an Art School will be available to get on the night at the event, online and from stockists around the UK.
This work has been funded by Arts Council England, Bruce McLean and Necessity.
About TOMA | ABOUT the book
installation
The Enchanted Forest
Nwando Ebizie with Tom Richards
& The Louise Hamilton Trust
by appointment until Wednedsay 16 July
13 Regent Street,
Great Yarmouth, NR30 1RN
FREE, Ages 12–16
As part of their YARMONICS residency, artists Nwando Ebizie and Tom Richards have created a multisensory sound and light installation to accompany The Enchanted Forest, a vast and magical knitted woodland scene made by the diverse members of the Louise Hamilton Trust.
Nwando Ebizie is a constellation point for a spectrum of multidisciplinary works that call for RADICAL change.
She challenges her audience to question their perceived realities through art personas, experimental theatre, neuroscience, music and African diasporic ritualistic dance. Carving out her own particular strand of Afrofuturism, she combines research into the neuroscience of perception (inspired by her own neurodiversity) and an obsession with science fiction with a ritualistic live art practice.
Nwando works across media, genre and artforms creating mythopoetic metanarratives and alternate realities. Her work is a drawing together of the pieces that she is in a frozen moment of ever-living infinite regress.
Always political and grounded in a mytho-scientific perspective she invites viewers and participants to join her at the Crossroads. At the crossroads where you can choose to pass through the cosmic mirror and touch alternate realities. The realities of what could have been and what should have been and what may possibly be. She works with speculative fictions, possible dreams and lucid worlds.
exhibition
No Before or After: Notes on a Film
Emily Richardson
Saturday 5 July - 27 July 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Launches: Friday 4 July, 3.30 -6.30pm (part of the study day listed below)
No Before or After: Notes on a Film is a work in progress by artist filmmaker Emily Richardson examining ideas around extraction, preservation, and memory through the lens of a journey to the Arctic World Archive’s World Memory Bank which, despite the thawing permafrost, professes to protect world memory for 500-1000 years deep under the ice in a former coal mine on Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. The exhibition brings together elements from the project’s research process together with material filmed earlier this year on Svalbard.
The project includes, Responses to Shifting Landscapes, a day of talks and discussion at St George’s Theatre brings together a group of artists, writers, researchers and filmmakers whose work responds to ideas around shifting landscapes and the impact of our increasing need for energy.
Living on the East coast of the UK and being aware of this shifting landscape, the idea was to connect this coastline with the far North, particularly the archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic circle to ask questions about the interconnection of the fastest melting place on the planet with changes being experienced closer to home and how a creative response can contribute to the conversation.
Organised by Emily Richardson in partnership with originalprojects;.
Design: Possible Worlds | @possible.worlds
An Arts Council England funded project.
study day
No Before or After
Responses to Shifting Landscapes; Study Day
organised by Emily Richardson
Friday 4 July, 10am–3pm
St George's Theatres, Great Yarmouth
Tiered pricing £3 - £15 [book here]
A day of presentations, discussion and responses to shifting landscapes changed by climate and our increasing need for energy featuring presentations from:
event
Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth -
Exploring an Artist-Led Campus
Friday 6 June
originalprojects; is pleased to host the optional third day of the Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters programme in Great Yarmouth — a town shaped by its coastal identity, layered histories, and community resilience.
This day invites participants to experience the town as a living curriculum. Through artist-led walks, conversations, and encounters with local environments, we’ll explore what it means to make art, build community, and respond to lived challenges at the edge.
Our contribution to Shared Seas builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS).
Travel is self-organised. Further details will be shared with confirmed participants.
Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters
Wednesday 4 June - Friday 6 June
Shared Sea: Coastal Encounters, a three-day programme bringing together artists, curators, designers, scientists, activists, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore how art and culture can shape global climate action. The event is organised by the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia, East Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with originalprojects (Great Yarmouth) and Wolterton, with support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy, London.
exhibition
GREAT WAVES
Shortwave Collective
Friday 9 – Sunday 25 May, 12–4pm
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
As 2024’s YARMONICS residency artists, Shortwave Collective spent time in Great Yarmouth meeting artists, community groups, and residents—using radio-making as a way to listen to and learn from the town.
Through a series of public workshops, participants helped build homemade radios (Open Wave-Receivers) and explored the symbolism of each component—asking: Where do we go to receive signals? Where do we feel grounded? These questions shaped a collaborative zine that maps Great Yarmouth as a living radio circuit.
Guided by the places participants associated with different parts of the circuit, the Collective travelled the town with microphones and DIY receivers—recording sounds, stories, and atmospheres. Great Waves is the resulting installation featuring a short Super 8 film, working radios, and the collaboratively made zine.
Produced by originalprojects;, and Eastern Ear, as part of YARMONICS, and supported by Arts Council England, and Ranworth Trust. Presented in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2025 programme
exhibition
The Anglian Embassy
Sluice Expo
Friday 23 – Sunday 25 May
Technical Museum of East Iceland,
Hafnargata 38b, 710 Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Cost of entry to the museum | 1–4pm
We're pleased to be participating in Sluice Expo in Seydisfyordur as part of the Anglian Embassy, which brings together Blackwater Polytechnic, Grange Projects and originalprojects at the inviation of Blackwater Polytechnic.
We're taking the opportunity to exhibit the work of some of the artists and organisations we have the pleasure of working with in and around Great Yarmouth, representing some of the diversity of talent and breadth of approaches there are to working with and in a place.
We're showing examples of work by:
Red Herring Press run by Lotte L.S.
Possible Worlds run by Josh Hall
Alex Costello who runs 303 Projects
Theo Gorst who designed a series of football scarves for Great Yarmouth Town Football Club (nicknamed The Bloaters)
Andrew Tyrone Robertson, Charlie Ditcham and Jason Evans who worked together to create an editorial for The Face Magazine, including outfits from The Hippodrome and Yarmouth Oilskins' archives
Jacques Nimki
Tavis Gray
Dolly Sen who worked with women from Great Yarmouth to create The Rageful Sew and Sew as part of the Lorina Bulwer Legacy Project
We've also brought some sticks of Great Yarmouth rock handmade by Potters Rock Factory and tote bags from Good Times – a record shop in Great Yarmouth.
exhibition
REBEL RESISTORS RADIO CLUB
Action Hero
Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 May, 12–4pm
Private View: Monday 19 May, 3:30–5:00pm (rsvp)
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm
Celebrate the voices of Great Yarmouth’s next generation of broadcasters.
Rebel Resistors Radio Club is a bold, international participatory project by performance collective Action Hero, asking urgent questions in playful, accessible ways:
Where are we heading? Where is power held? How will we share space in an uncertain world?
In Great Yarmouth, artist Gemma Paintin worked with Year 5 girls from St. Nicholas Priory Primary School to build analogue radios and broadcast personal manifestos for the future. Together, they’ve created a post-digital pirate radio network — a global, clandestine sisterhood of girls, tooled up for the world they are inheriting.
This sound installation is part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival's Festival Connect & Create, a programme celebrating the voices of children, young people, and their communities.
PRIVATE VIEW – MONDAY 19 MAY RSVP required by 12 May, via:
david.stothard@nnfestival.org.uk.
Please include any access requirements. Spaces are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
Talks, Performances, Readings & Sound
THE HAUNTED
Created by Joanna Holland
Monday 19 May, 6:30pm
St. George's Theatre, King Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2PG
Pay What You Can: £15, £12, £9, £6, £3
FREE for people with chronic illness, Disabled, D/deaf or neurodiverse
How does it feel when reality doesn’t behave quite as expected?
Strange occurrences at nighttime, listening houses, dancing illness and otherworldly portals… Welcome to The Haunted.
Devised by multidisciplinary artist Joanna Holland, The Haunted is a year-long series of performances, talks, readings and soundscapes exploring liminal space, dreaming, sick bodies, horror and the uncanny. This event offers insights into the emotional landscape of chronic illness and parasomnia, and invites audiences into eerie, surreal and in-between states through two key works:
Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity (work in progress)
A haunting monologue exploring the entanglement of chronic illness and recurring dreams. Written by Joanna Holland, performed by award-winning actress Louise Kim Salter, and directed by Stéphanie Joalland.
Insomnia
Artist Leah Clements shares her latest body of work, which examines the emotional and psychological effects of insomnia and altered sleep.
Followed by an artist Q&A with the performers and creators.
Following on from her 2023 exhibition Out of the Blue at PrimeYarc, Joanna Holland continues to explore the inner worlds of sick and sleeping bodies. With female-led narratives by Disabled and non-Disabled artists, The Haunted brings audiences into an uncanny, liminal realm where time, space and the body behave unpredictably.
Learn more about the project: www.hollandsyntax.uk
Content note: This event includes themes of horror, chronic illness, parasomnias, nightmares, visions, pain and death. It contains an unnerving and extremely loud soundtrack, sudden noises, darkness, and flashing lights.
Tickets via St Georges Theatre & Norfolk & Norwich Festival– Booking is essential. Book here.
exhibition
The Fabric of Our Fury
by Dolly Sen
Saturday 10 May – Saturday 17 May, 12–4pm
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Step into a space stitched with rage, voice, and defiance.
The Fabric of Our Fury is a striking new installation of tapestry, text, and song, created by artist Dolly Sen and local participants in response to the legacy of Lorina Bulwer—the 19th-century Great Yarmouth woman who embroidered her fury while confined to an asylum.
This powerful display brings together a reimagined version of Lorina’s infamous sampler—updated for 2025—and the voices of women today, especially Disabled women and women with mental health experiences.
The work grew from six weeks of Raging Sew & Sew workshops led by YarMaker Clare Southern at PrimeYarc, where participants stitched, spoke out, and channelled creative resistance through textile. Running alongside, the Complaints Choir invited the community to turn everyday frustrations into a defiant, collective song—no singing experience needed.
The result is a raw, rebellious, and moving installation—grounded in local voices, layered with meaning, and open to all.
This project has been supported by Arts Council England.
Lorina Bulwer Pamphlet by Dolly Sen is available through red herring press (First printing March 2022 | Fourth printing January 2024)
‘Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England’s wastelands. Gun to your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England’s ghost hours. It’s so beautiful it’s actually ludicrous.’ - Simon Stephens, playwright
You probably haven't heard of teenage runaways Dakota and Bede yet. But you will.
They'll be all over the radio and splashed across newspapers - bigger than Thelma and Louise. That's the plan anyway. Gun to your head: what could possibly go wrong?
DAKOTA COLLECTIVE are a multi-award nominated theatre crew telling transcendent stories in unconventional spaces. For May 2025, they are bringing their sell-out hit GUN TO YOUR HEAD on tour in association with HighTide, East Anglia’s foremost theatre company for new writing.
GUN TO YOUR HEAD had a SOLD-OUT run at VAULT Festival 2023.
One of The Independent’s 13 “Unmissable Gems”
The Stagedoor’s Lyn Gardner’s “Pick of the Week”
Lou Review’s “Pick of the Week”
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ FringeBiscuit
+ FREE PRE-SHOW WORKSHOP for 16 - 15 year olds: (1pm, 16th May 2025) (see link)
EVENT
Breaking Bread
Saturday 29 March, 4pm - 8pm
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, Ages 12–16
An evening of film, art, stalls, music and family, ending with a community meal which will be served after sundown.
Pot luck sharing a meal - halal and vegan options - bring a dish if you can.
Fundraising for local charities and global mutual aid.
There will be stalls with donated artwork and clothes for charity fundraising - any art or clothing donations are welcome!
Funded the Cultural Connections Volunteering.
FREE, All Welcome
originalprojects; have had the privilege of building a strong relationship with Herring House Trust since our setting up in 2016, and we are thrilled to help bring this ambitious new exhibition to the public. Over the past few months, we’ve worked closely with them to help their vision come to life in PrimeYarc, creating new works and bringing together pieces they’ve produced alongside a talented group of artists, amplifying their voices and creative talents within our community.
This powerful exhibition sheds light on the many different experiences of homelessness, offering a chance to connect with and better understand the stories of those who have lived through it.
As the collective says,
"Let our voices be heard. Our community holds the key to change."
The works in the exhibition have all been created by members of the Herring House Lived Experience Collective, a group of individuals with firsthand experience of homelessness. They have worked alongside local artists and supporters, including:
Additional thanks to Martin Battye for his support in helping make the exhibition happen.
About The Herring House Lived Experience Collective:
The Herring House Lived Experience Collective is a group of individuals who have firsthand experience of homelessness. They come together to advocate for change, challenge stigma, and support one another. Through their work, they provide invaluable insights that help shape better services for those facing homelessness.
Members of the Lived Experience Collective will be in attendance every Wednesday from 12-2.30 to chat about their work and share their stories.
The historic St John’s Church, built in the 1850s, is currently being renovated by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust. Our vision is to transform it into a vibrant cultural hub with the help of local artists and community members....
...But before we break ground, we need your input and ideas!
Join us in a series of drop-in workshops led by local artists, gardeners, and cooks, where we’ll explore how to create a community space that reflects our shared values and imagines something new. Whether you're into art, gardening, sustainability, or just want to share your thoughts, there's a place for you.
(see flyer for details)
FREE, All Welcome
originalprojects is intoxicated to be presenting an exhibition of paintings made on beer mats by Martin Battye @martinbattyepainter
FREE, All Welcome
Details:
Proposals will be accepted throughout July.
If costs are prohibitive, please contact us to discuss the possibility of a reduced rate.
Enquire at: info@originalprojects.co.uk (Subject: Holiday Lets Question)
FREE, All Welcome
'Almost Nothing but Blue Ground' is a project initiated by Tom Pope and Matthew Bennington in 2018, exploring the work and life of Anna Atkins, a pioneering figure in photographic history who produced the first book to use photographic illustrations, 'British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions', in 1843.
Tom and Matthew’s project specifically focuses on the book ‘Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns’, which Atkins created collaboratively with Anne Dixon in 1853. Many of the ferns included in the book were from Jamaica, which led to the discovery that Atkins' husband and father-in-law jointly owned at least eight plantations and thousands of slaves in Jamaica. The realisation that Atkins directly and indirectly benefited from the slave trade and colonial project refocused the artists’ research enquiry through a contemporary decolonial lens.
In addition to the life and work of Atkins, 'Almost Nothing But Blue Ground' investigates the Victorian fern craze, land ownership, capitalism, and the colonial project, in particular its links with botany and the plundering of foreign lands.
The exhibition at PrimeYarc will present some of the works associated with the project, and Tom and Matthew will also present a performance lecture on Friday 19 July and a workshop on Saturday 20 July.
FREE, All Welcome
Through TV Dinners Susannah Hewlett brings her work back to Norfolk after graduating from NUCA over 20 years ago – a buffet selection of her finest cold cuts; a platter of audio and televisual highlights and be-wigged character performance, including the return of perennial idiot Chris Titmas, egomaniacal VSS Shopping Channel host and ‘personality’.
Susannah Hewlett’s work crossbreeds live performance, video, comedy, theatre and sound. She performs and exhibits in galleries, theatres, museums, cinemas, nightclubs and festivals. She is an associate artist of the legendary queer performance collective Duckie.
Fixated on popular culture, her work disarms audiences, using comedy as a strategy through character-led performance, subtle interventions and videos. Humour often gives way to discomfort revealing the darker aspects of human behaviour and our symbiosis with consumerism.
TV Dinners is part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and there are various associated events. HARD LEISURE and the Great British Cack Off.
Featuring:
FREE, All Welcome
The term ‘adrift’ captures the essence of willingly letting go of moorings and releasing a predetermined destination. In this watchful state of ‘drifting,’ possibilities emerge, co-existing, and ideas take shape, each artist interpreting this space uniquely.
Being adrift involves embracing uncertainty, urging viewers to detach from explanatory texts and experience meaning as fluid and provisional. While the artists explore diverse painting practices, the exhibition doesn't aim to be a comprehensive overview but seeks unpredictable exchanges between works, offering fresh perspectives and new 'adrifts.'
The exhibition coincides with CONTRAcurricular, a Summit for radical and alternative art education organized by originalprojects;. Considering how ‘being adrift’ fits within formal educational structures will be explored. Venturing into the unknown involves a state of unknowing, where meanings are multiple, layered, and open to interpretation, challenging painting to reinvent itself continually.
. . . a d r i f t . . . is organized by originalprojects; in collaboration with Molly Thomson and Barbara Howey, supported by funding from the East Anglia Art Fund and Contemporary British Painting.
Saturday 2 February to Sunday 25 February
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Lowlifes presents collections of portraits created using a range of techniques by Richard Hancock, a studio member at PrimeYarc.
For one series, Richard begins by cutting out plywood silhouettes of portraits of convicts, then creates tonal areas through the application of finger and thumb prints, referencing the process that the convicts would have had to go through when they were arrested. This motley crew are presented as a crowd of anonymous faces, slightly blurred and indistinct, but all having stemmed from found archive materials.
Another group have been sourced from Richard’s family and ancestors, and these have been decorated and textured with staples and paper, as if taken from missing pet posters fixed to telegraph poles and fence panels, then torn away.
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Join us for February Fun and Fidget: Crafts and Wellbeing Workshops! Every Saturday in February, Site will be running a series of arts and crafts to encourage people to try out different activities and learn how to run their own. The aim is to promote mental health and well-being through focused and positive creative activities. During these workshops you will have the chance to create works which will be shown in an exhibition at the end. For more information, click here.
Supported with funding from Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk's Cultural Connections Volunteering scheme's Activation Grants.
FREE Workshops Every Saturday in February, starting at 12pm.
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.
PUBLIC ART OFF-SITE
ADP
Jimmy Cauty
The (Dis)Pleasure Beach Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk N30 3EH
Open Summer 2023 (open during Pleasure Beach Gardens opening times, )
This Summer Great Yarmouth hosts a double bill from Jimmy Cauty. Last year 5000 people visited ESTATE, this year it is joined by ADP RIOT welcoming vistors to experince the two works together!
The Aftermath Dislocation Principle (ADP) is an artwork depicting a monumental post-riot landscape in miniature. This dystopian model village is set somewhere in Bedfordshire, where only the police and media teams remain in an otherwise deserted, wrecked and dislocated land – all in 1:87 scale and viewed through peepholes in the side of the container.
The ADP went on a nationwide tour of former riot sites across the UK during 2016. The ADP WORLD RIOT TOUR began in 2017 with a mission to visit every historic riot site in the world. This tour will continue until the end of time.
PUBLIC ART OFF-SITE
MdZ ESTATE Tour
Jimmy Cauty
The (Dis)Pleasure Beach Gardens, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk N30 3EH
Open since 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.
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 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.
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
Aims:
This event is a follow-up to the Creative Workspace Summit which took place in April 2018, and will be of interest to, Architects, city and town planners, SMEs, councillors, planners, policy decision-makers, economists, business owners, estate agents, artists, creatives, students, budding entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in creating vibrant and dynamic town centres and high streets.
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
EVENT CONFERENCE
Creative Centres Work Place Summit
St Georges Theatre, Great Yarmouth
20 April 2018
This event will be of interest to:
Artists, creatives, students, budding entrepreneurs, SMEs, councillors, planners, policy decision-makers, economists
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
Led by artist Olivia Rodgers, participants explored drawing, painting, collage and mark-making before transforming their work into digital projections.
Bringing together traditional art-making and digital technology, Light Works celebrates creativity, collaboration and the unique perspectives of young people.
Developed through a Norfolk & Norwich Festival Bursary for Young Creatives, in partnership with originalprojects; and PrimeYarc, Creative Collisions and the National Saturday Club at Time and Tide Museum
and Norfolk Museums.
Presented by originalprojects; to coincide with Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride 2026.
Following the success of last year’s inaugural Pride Open Exhibition, This Space Belongs to You celebrates LGBTQ+ creativity, visibility, expression and belonging.
The exhibition will include drawing, painting, printmaking, sculpture, mixed media, digital work, fashion, film, creative writing, spoken word and performance.
Submissions are open to all, and especially encouraged from LGBTQ+ artists living or working in Great Yarmouth and Waveney, as well as first-time exhibitors.
Open Call - APPLY HERE
Submission deadline: Midnight, Sunday 12 July 2026
Applicants notified by: Sunday 19 July 2026
Opening event: Saturday 8 August 2026
Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride: Saturday 29 August 2026
Supported by Norfolk County Council.
go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams is a new ‘3-D collage’ exploring entanglements between nature, chronic illness and possibility. Presented as an ‘in-progress’ artwork, it has been created especially for this year’s Norfolk & Norwich Festival .
Visual art, plants, text, cyanotypes, and naturally dyed yarns have been thoughtfully woven together to form an imagined garden of ideas. The work is an immersive experience, inviting responses to provocations around nature-connection, slowness, and different ways of being in the world.
Access
Access is integral to the project, with level access, rest spaces throughout, and accessible toilets available. Visitors are welcome to move through the exhibition at their own pace.
go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams is an Unlimited UK Partner Award 2025 commission with Norfolk & Norwich Festival, made possible with funding from Arts Council England.
*Image: conditions apply artist collective © conditions apply / Sebastian James Lister
The exhibition is part of a long-term collaboration between people living in and around Great Yarmouth, the *conditions apply artist collective — comprising Caroline Cardus, Ellery Child, Genevieve Rudd and Joanna Holland — and originalprojects;.
Over five months, *conditions apply curated a series of participatory experiences for residents who identify as living with chronic illness and/or as Disabled. People were welcomed into a gentle space which prioritised access, equity, conversation and creativity. Together, participants experimented with different artistic processes and co-created go gently into the garden of [im]possible dreams.
*conditions apply are a collective of East Anglian artists who identify as living with chronic illness and/or as Disabled. The name is a wry take on the small print that no one ever reads, and an acknowledgement of the day-to-day impacts of medical conditions.
Read the project’s introductory blog: https://nnfestival.org.uk/stories/go-gently-into-the-garden-of-impossible-dreams/
WORKSHOPS
Young YarMakers Friday Art Club
Every Friday during term time in 2025, 3.30-5.30pm
+ Summer Activities
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, Ages 12–16
Join an exciting free practical making and learning programme where you’ll:
Attend as many or as few sessions as you like – every session is unique!
Pay What You Can - TICKETS HERE
A club night like no other, where sound moves around the space to create a rare three-dimensional listening experience.
Featuring live sets from:
Ireen Amnes – experimental electronic music spanning noise, techno and electroacoustic sound.
Nik Colk Void – electronic musician and artist working with voice, guitar and modular Eurorack systems.
Loula Yorke – composer and sound artist combining analogue synthesis, rhythm and sonic collage.
An immersive audiovisual environment created by Magic Acorns, a Great Yarmouth organisation specialising in multi-sensory creative experiences for babies and young children.
This is a drop-in session — visitors are welcome to stay for the full hour or join for a shorter visit.
Photo credit: Barn Jam, Charlotte Arkulus / Magic Acorns
FREE | 12–4pm
Roy previously joined us during Murmurations Week, where he led sessions exploring ecological thinking and collective learning, and later returned for OTHERWISE… [intensive] to run a hands-on foraging and composting workshop — each with a focus on St John’s Church garden and its future stewardship.
His visits have helped open up conversations around soil, care, fermentation, and how we might think differently about the relationship between people, place and growing.
This time we will turn our attention to the next practical step. Together we’ll explore holistic garden design, permaculture thinking and regenerative growing, before getting practical by designing and building cold frames ready for the upcoming seed-planting season.
Free. All welcome. Warm refreshments provided.
Monday 24 – Saturday 29 November 2025
Across Great Yarmouth
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
A public prototype for the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School — a week-long experiment in learning, making and thinking together, embedded across the town.
Through a mix of workshops, talks, walks, shared meals, and reflective discussions, otherwise… [Intensive] tests how Great Yarmouth itself can function as an open art school — using everyday spaces as classrooms and drawing on the knowledge and creativity of its people.
Part public programme, part research process, the week gathers insights on how we learn, what connects us, and what might come next.
All sessions are free, open to all, and wheelchair accessible.
Booking helps us plan food, materials, and access.
Book online | Download paper form email to info@originalprojects.co.uk
Saturday 8 – Sunday 23 November
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2BG
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
17 – 25 October
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth, NR30 2BG
FREE
MAS(S) is a new sound art project by Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell, exploring migration, refugees, war and loss through the human voice.
Inside PrimeYarc, specially designed generative sound sculptures transform the testimonies of eight Ukrainian artists and refugees into a 45-minute multi-channel soundscape. As the machines move and generate sound, visitors are invited to sit or stand and experience the evolving sonic environment, which culminates in a resonant siren call.
The artists describe MAS(S) as communal sound art — a space where voices and machines intertwine to form a powerful sonic narrative, calling us to listen and to act. The work honours real stories of displacement while inviting reflection on how we respond to migration today.
Accompanying the exhibition, Voice Siren Walks will take place along the beach path from Sara's Tearooms to the Premier Inn at 2pm on Friday 17 October and at 2pm & 4pm on Sunday 19 October.
EVENT
VOICE SIREN WALK
Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE)
in collaboration with Lomond Campbell
Friday 17 October: 2pm & Sunday 19 October: 2pm & 4pm
Great Yarmouth's beach edge, running from Sara's Tearooms, beside The Pleasure Beach, to the Premier Inn
FREE - BOOK HERE
The Voice Siren Walk is the outdoor strand of MAS(S) — a powerful sound art project by Tristan Shorr and Rae Champion (CONCRETE) in collaboration with Lomond Campbell.
A network of loudspeakers runs along the beach, transmitting an evolving soundscape created from the recorded testimonies of eight Ukrainian artists and refugees. Their voices, processed through generative sound sculptures, rise and fall across the coastline, culminating in a haunting siren call that echoes out to sea.
Audiences are invited to walk together along the beach edge, tracing this temporary sonic border and listening as the sound shifts with the landscape. It is both a collective act of listening and a poetic reflection on displacement, migration, and shared responsibility.
Meet outside the beach side of Sara’s Tearooms for the start of the walk. (The walk takes approximately 45 minutes. 2025)
The route is fully accessible, with nearby parking and toilets.
Co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.
Presented in partnership with Yarmonics, as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Supported by Arts Council England.
EVENT
WELCOME
Belén Yáñez
Saturday 18 October, 10:00–13:00 & 15:00–18:00
Under Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth
FREE - BOOK HERE
Age Recommendation: 12+ (for participation)
Welcome approaches the concept of arrival as a moment of renewal and invitation. Set in unconventional locations and facilitated by performers, the work transforms everyday spaces into immersive landscapes, encouraging participants to engage with their surroundings — and each other — in fresh and imaginative ways.
Participants are equipped with full-face masks and headphones. The masks, symbolising identity diversity, prompt a shift in perception, while the headphones deliver a layered sound narrative of music, ambient sounds, and effects. Together with live facilitation, this creates a space for imaginative exploration, where familiar environments are experienced anew.
Rooted in a desire to foster welcoming atmospheres within communities, Welcome reflects on integration and cultural exchange through shared, embodied experience.
Co-commissioned by Counterpoints Arts.
Presented in partnership with Yarmonics, as part of the Platforma Festival (October 2025) produced by Counterpoints Arts.
Supported by Arts Council England.
EXHIBITION
Beyond Sight
Oliver Jerrold
Friday 12 September - Sunday 5 October 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
'Beyond Sight' is a solo exhibition by Oliver Jerrold, presenting a series of abstract landscape energy paintings representing unseen energies — like waves, vibrations, and forces that move through sound, memory, and nature.
EXHIBITION | WORKSHOPS
"GOT TO BE REAL"
Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride - Open Exhibition 2025
Saturday 16 August - Sunday 7, September 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Launches: Saturday 16 August, 12pm - 4pm (Performances, Workshops & Creative Fun)
Creative Workshops every Saturday
From an open call to the community, originalprojects; is proud to present our first exhibition in support of Great Yarmouth & Waveney Pride, taking place this year on 6–7 September at various locations across Great Yarmouth. (See the Pride website for full details.)
This vibrant, inclusive exhibition features work from a wide mix of artists, makers, and community groups — from first-time exhibitors to established names — all celebrating creativity, identity, and community.
Artists include:
Alex Harvey, Ash Ford-McAllister, Chloë Hurst, David & Yakov, David Shenton, Emma Armstrong, Freshly Greated, Gary Hogben, Gena, Henri J Rex, Jay Goodbrave, John Barnard, Josi R., Katherine Gethin, Kyle Hussey-Orriss, Laurie Green, Linda Yvonne Pope, Many Selves, Rachel Collier-Wilson, Rebecca Constance Thomas, Sebastian Lister, Sen Thompson, Stephen Manning, Tavis Gray and Young YarMakers.
And don’t miss our Creative Workshops every Saturday — free to attend, open to all. Check our socials for the latest updates and details on each week’s activity.
Funded with the support of Norfolk County Council’s Arts Projects Grants.
Thanks to Henri, Josi, and CJ for their help in organising the exhibition, and Gray for design input.
WORKSHOPS
HOW TO SET UP AN ART SCHOOL, a workshop of sorts
By The Other MA (TOMA)
Wednesday 4 August, 2025
PrimeYarc, Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, book here
Join us for an evening exploring the power and politics of alternative art education as part of the mini book launch tour of How to set up an art school. Emma Edmondson and Ames Pennington will host a workshop come conversation, looking at the themes of the book and asking what makes a bad art school, what makes a good one and how shared experiences can build a utopian space for creative learning together.
How to Set Up an Art School serves as a guide for artists looking to establish alternative art schools and those interested in the current state of contemporary art education. This event will act as a launch for the publication through some conversation, making and games to invite people in to imagine their own art schools.
Emma Edmondson and Ames Pennington have been involved in alternative art education for nearly a decade - Ames created illustrations for the publication and Emma contributed two essays and curated the book. This event will be a chance to explore the book deeper and all are welcome to join - whether you’re interested in art education, DIY practice, playful making or artist-run spaces!
How to Set Up an Art School will be available to get on the night at the event, online and from stockists around the UK.
This work has been funded by Arts Council England, Bruce McLean and Necessity.
About TOMA | ABOUT the book
exhibition
No Before or After: Notes on a Film
Emily Richardson
Saturday 5 July - 27 July 2025
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Launches: Friday 4 July, 3.30 -6.30pm (part of the study day listed below)
No Before or After: Notes on a Film is a work in progress by artist filmmaker Emily Richardson examining ideas around extraction, preservation, and memory through the lens of a journey to the Arctic World Archive’s World Memory Bank which, despite the thawing permafrost, professes to protect world memory for 500-1000 years deep under the ice in a former coal mine on Svalbard in the Arctic Circle. The exhibition brings together elements from the project’s research process together with material filmed earlier this year on Svalbard.
The project includes, Responses to Shifting Landscapes, a day of talks and discussion at St George’s Theatre brings together a group of artists, writers, researchers and filmmakers whose work responds to ideas around shifting landscapes and the impact of our increasing need for energy.
Living on the East coast of the UK and being aware of this shifting landscape, the idea was to connect this coastline with the far North, particularly the archipelago of Svalbard in the Arctic circle to ask questions about the interconnection of the fastest melting place on the planet with changes being experienced closer to home and how a creative response can contribute to the conversation.
Organised by Emily Richardson in partnership with originalprojects;.
Design: Possible Worlds | @possible.worlds
An Arts Council England funded project.
study day
No Before or After
Responses to Shifting Landscapes; Study Day
organised by Emily Richardson
Friday 4 July, 10am–3pm
St George's Theatres, Great Yarmouth
Tiered pricing £3 - £15 [book here]
A day of presentations, discussion and responses to shifting landscapes changed by climate and our increasing need for energy featuring presentations from:
installation
The Enchanted Forest
Nwando Ebizie with Tom Richards
& The Louise Hamilton Trust
by appointment until Wednedsay 16 July
13 Regent Street,
Great Yarmouth, NR30 1RN
FREE, Ages 12–16
As part of their YARMONICS residency, artists Nwando Ebizie and Tom Richards have created a multisensory sound and light installation to accompany The Enchanted Forest, a vast and magical knitted woodland scene made by the diverse members of the Louise Hamilton Trust.
Nwando Ebizie is a constellation point for a spectrum of multidisciplinary works that call for RADICAL change.
She challenges her audience to question their perceived realities through art personas, experimental theatre, neuroscience, music and African diasporic ritualistic dance. Carving out her own particular strand of Afrofuturism, she combines research into the neuroscience of perception (inspired by her own neurodiversity) and an obsession with science fiction with a ritualistic live art practice.
Nwando works across media, genre and artforms creating mythopoetic metanarratives and alternate realities. Her work is a drawing together of the pieces that she is in a frozen moment of ever-living infinite regress.
Always political and grounded in a mytho-scientific perspective she invites viewers and participants to join her at the Crossroads. At the crossroads where you can choose to pass through the cosmic mirror and touch alternate realities. The realities of what could have been and what should have been and what may possibly be. She works with speculative fictions, possible dreams and lucid worlds.
event
Coastal Encounter in Great Yarmouth -
Exploring an Artist-Led Campus
Friday 6 June
originalprojects; is pleased to host the optional third day of the Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters programme in Great Yarmouth — a town shaped by its coastal identity, layered histories, and community resilience.
This day invites participants to experience the town as a living curriculum. Through artist-led walks, conversations, and encounters with local environments, we’ll explore what it means to make art, build community, and respond to lived challenges at the edge.
Our contribution to Shared Seas builds on our current research project: the Great Yarmouth Exploded Art School (GYEAS).
Travel is self-organised. Further details will be shared with confirmed participants.
Shared Seas: Coastal Encounters
Wednesday 4 June - Friday 6 June
Shared Sea: Coastal Encounters, a three-day programme bringing together artists, curators, designers, scientists, activists, researchers, policymakers, and community leaders to explore how art and culture can shape global climate action. The event is organised by the Sainsbury Centre, Norwich Green Film Festival, University of East Anglia, East Gallery and Norwich University of the Arts, in collaboration with originalprojects (Great Yarmouth) and Wolterton, with support from the Kingdom of the Netherlands Embassy, London.
exhibition
GREAT WAVES
Shortwave Collective
Friday 9 – Sunday 25 May, 12–4pm
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
As 2024’s YARMONICS residency artists, Shortwave Collective spent time in Great Yarmouth meeting artists, community groups, and residents—using radio-making as a way to listen to and learn from the town.
Through a series of public workshops, participants helped build homemade radios (Open Wave-Receivers) and explored the symbolism of each component—asking: Where do we go to receive signals? Where do we feel grounded? These questions shaped a collaborative zine that maps Great Yarmouth as a living radio circuit.
Guided by the places participants associated with different parts of the circuit, the Collective travelled the town with microphones and DIY receivers—recording sounds, stories, and atmospheres. Great Waves is the resulting installation featuring a short Super 8 film, working radios, and the collaboratively made zine.
Produced by originalprojects;, and Eastern Ear, as part of YARMONICS, and supported by Arts Council England, and Ranworth Trust. Presented in the Norfolk and Norwich Festival 2025 programme
exhibition
The Anglian Embassy
Sluice Expo
Friday 23 – Sunday 25 May
Technical Museum of East Iceland,
Hafnargata 38b, 710 Seyðisfjörður, Iceland
Cost of entry to the museum | 1–4pm
We're pleased to be participating in Sluice Expo in Seydisfyordur as part of the Anglian Embassy, which brings together Blackwater Polytechnic, Grange Projects and originalprojects at the inviation of Blackwater Polytechnic.
We're taking the opportunity to exhibit the work of some of the artists and organisations we have the pleasure of working with in and around Great Yarmouth, representing some of the diversity of talent and breadth of approaches there are to working with and in a place.
We're showing examples of work by:
Red Herring Press run by Lotte L.S.
Possible Worlds run by Josh Hall
Alex Costello who runs 303 Projects
Theo Gorst who designed a series of football scarves for Great Yarmouth Town Football Club (nicknamed The Bloaters)
Andrew Tyrone Robertson, Charlie Ditcham and Jason Evans who worked together to create an editorial for The Face Magazine, including outfits from The Hippodrome and Yarmouth Oilskins' archives
Jacques Nimki
Tavis Gray
Dolly Sen who worked with women from Great Yarmouth to create The Rageful Sew and Sew as part of the Lorina Bulwer Legacy Project
We've also brought some sticks of Great Yarmouth rock handmade by Potters Rock Factory and tote bags from Good Times – a record shop in Great Yarmouth.
exhibition
REBEL RESISTORS RADIO CLUB
Action Hero
Wednesday 21 – Saturday 24 May, 12–4pm
Private View: Monday 19 May, 3:30–5:00pm (rsvp)
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm
Celebrate the voices of Great Yarmouth’s next generation of broadcasters.
Rebel Resistors Radio Club is a bold, international participatory project by performance collective Action Hero, asking urgent questions in playful, accessible ways:
Where are we heading? Where is power held? How will we share space in an uncertain world?
In Great Yarmouth, artist Gemma Paintin worked with Year 5 girls from St. Nicholas Priory Primary School to build analogue radios and broadcast personal manifestos for the future. Together, they’ve created a post-digital pirate radio network — a global, clandestine sisterhood of girls, tooled up for the world they are inheriting.
This sound installation is part of Norfolk and Norwich Festival's Festival Connect & Create, a programme celebrating the voices of children, young people, and their communities.
PRIVATE VIEW – MONDAY 19 MAY RSVP required by 12 May, via:
david.stothard@nnfestival.org.uk.
Please include any access requirements. Spaces are limited and offered on a first come, first served basis.
Talks, Performances, Readings & Sound
THE HAUNTED
Created by Joanna Holland
Monday 19 May, 6:30pm
St. George's Theatre, King Street, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, NR30 2PG
Pay What You Can: £15, £12, £9, £6, £3
FREE for people with chronic illness, Disabled, D/deaf or neurodiverse
How does it feel when reality doesn’t behave quite as expected?
Strange occurrences at nighttime, listening houses, dancing illness and otherworldly portals… Welcome to The Haunted.
Devised by multidisciplinary artist Joanna Holland, The Haunted is a year-long series of performances, talks, readings and soundscapes exploring liminal space, dreaming, sick bodies, horror and the uncanny. This event offers insights into the emotional landscape of chronic illness and parasomnia, and invites audiences into eerie, surreal and in-between states through two key works:
Reverie – a dream of autoimmunity (work in progress)
A haunting monologue exploring the entanglement of chronic illness and recurring dreams. Written by Joanna Holland, performed by award-winning actress Louise Kim Salter, and directed by Stéphanie Joalland.
Insomnia
Artist Leah Clements shares her latest body of work, which examines the emotional and psychological effects of insomnia and altered sleep.
Followed by an artist Q&A with the performers and creators.
Following on from her 2023 exhibition Out of the Blue at PrimeYarc, Joanna Holland continues to explore the inner worlds of sick and sleeping bodies. With female-led narratives by Disabled and non-Disabled artists, The Haunted brings audiences into an uncanny, liminal realm where time, space and the body behave unpredictably.
Learn more about the project: www.hollandsyntax.uk
Content note: This event includes themes of horror, chronic illness, parasomnias, nightmares, visions, pain and death. It contains an unnerving and extremely loud soundtrack, sudden noises, darkness, and flashing lights.
Tickets via St Georges Theatre & Norfolk & Norwich Festival– Booking is essential. Book here.
exhibition
The Fabric of Our Fury
by Dolly Sen
Saturday 10 May – Saturday 17 May, 12–4pm
PrimeYarc Gallery, Market Gates, Great Yarmouth NR30
FREE | 12–4pm (Wednesday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday)
Step into a space stitched with rage, voice, and defiance.
The Fabric of Our Fury is a striking new installation of tapestry, text, and song, created by artist Dolly Sen and local participants in response to the legacy of Lorina Bulwer—the 19th-century Great Yarmouth woman who embroidered her fury while confined to an asylum.
This powerful display brings together a reimagined version of Lorina’s infamous sampler—updated for 2025—and the voices of women today, especially Disabled women and women with mental health experiences.
The work grew from six weeks of Raging Sew & Sew workshops led by YarMaker Clare Southern at PrimeYarc, where participants stitched, spoke out, and channelled creative resistance through textile. Running alongside, the Complaints Choir invited the community to turn everyday frustrations into a defiant, collective song—no singing experience needed.
The result is a raw, rebellious, and moving installation—grounded in local voices, layered with meaning, and open to all.
This project has been supported by Arts Council England.
Lorina Bulwer Pamphlet by Dolly Sen is available through red herring press (First printing March 2022 | Fourth printing January 2024)
‘Simon Jaggers is a visionary from England’s wastelands. Gun to your Head is a celebration of a play. Like a Disco Pigs for England’s ghost hours. It’s so beautiful it’s actually ludicrous.’ - Simon Stephens, playwright
You probably haven't heard of teenage runaways Dakota and Bede yet. But you will.
They'll be all over the radio and splashed across newspapers - bigger than Thelma and Louise. That's the plan anyway. Gun to your head: what could possibly go wrong?
DAKOTA COLLECTIVE are a multi-award nominated theatre crew telling transcendent stories in unconventional spaces. For May 2025, they are bringing their sell-out hit GUN TO YOUR HEAD on tour in association with HighTide, East Anglia’s foremost theatre company for new writing.
GUN TO YOUR HEAD had a SOLD-OUT run at VAULT Festival 2023.
One of The Independent’s 13 “Unmissable Gems”
The Stagedoor’s Lyn Gardner’s “Pick of the Week”
Lou Review’s “Pick of the Week”
★★★★ Theatre Weekly
★★★★ FringeBiscuit
+ FREE PRE-SHOW WORKSHOP for 16 - 15 year olds: (1pm, 16th May 2025) (see link)
FREE, All Welcome
originalprojects; have had the privilege of building a strong relationship with Herring House Trust since our setting up in 2016, and we are thrilled to help bring this ambitious new exhibition to the public. Over the past few months, we’ve worked closely with them to help their vision come to life in PrimeYarc, creating new works and bringing together pieces they’ve produced alongside a talented group of artists, amplifying their voices and creative talents within our community.
This powerful exhibition sheds light on the many different experiences of homelessness, offering a chance to connect with and better understand the stories of those who have lived through it.
As the collective says,
"Let our voices be heard. Our community holds the key to change."
The works in the exhibition have all been created by members of the Herring House Lived Experience Collective, a group of individuals with firsthand experience of homelessness. They have worked alongside local artists and supporters, including:
Additional thanks to Martin Battye for his support in helping make the exhibition happen.
About The Herring House Lived Experience Collective:
The Herring House Lived Experience Collective is a group of individuals who have firsthand experience of homelessness. They come together to advocate for change, challenge stigma, and support one another. Through their work, they provide invaluable insights that help shape better services for those facing homelessness.
Members of the Lived Experience Collective will be in attendance every Wednesday from 12-2.30 to chat about their work and share their stories.
EVENT
Breaking Bread
Saturday 29 March, 4pm - 8pm
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
FREE, Ages 12–16
An evening of film, art, stalls, music and family, ending with a community meal which will be served after sundown.
Pot luck sharing a meal - halal and vegan options - bring a dish if you can.
Fundraising for local charities and global mutual aid.
There will be stalls with donated artwork and clothes for charity fundraising - any art or clothing donations are welcome!
Funded the Cultural Connections Volunteering.
The historic St John’s Church, built in the 1850s, is currently being renovated by Great Yarmouth Preservation Trust. Our vision is to transform it into a vibrant cultural hub with the help of local artists and community members....
...But before we break ground, we need your input and ideas!
Join us in a series of drop-in workshops led by local artists, gardeners, and cooks, where we’ll explore how to create a community space that reflects our shared values and imagines something new. Whether you're into art, gardening, sustainability, or just want to share your thoughts, there's a place for you.
(see flyer for details)
FREE, All Welcome
originalprojects is intoxicated to be presenting an exhibition of paintings made on beer mats by Martin Battye @martinbattyepainterFREE, All Welcome
Details:
Proposals will be accepted throughout July.
If costs are prohibitive, please contact us to discuss the possibility of a reduced rate.
Enquire at: info@originalprojects.co.uk (Subject: Holiday Lets Question)
FREE, All Welcome
'Almost Nothing but Blue Ground' is a project initiated by Tom Pope and Matthew Bennington in 2018, exploring the work and life of Anna Atkins, a pioneering figure in photographic history who produced the first book to use photographic illustrations, 'British Algae: Cyanotype Impressions', in 1843.
Tom and Matthew’s project specifically focuses on the book ‘Cyanotypes of British and Foreign Ferns’, which Atkins created collaboratively with Anne Dixon in 1853. Many of the ferns included in the book were from Jamaica, which led to the discovery that Atkins' husband and father-in-law jointly owned at least eight plantations and thousands of slaves in Jamaica. The realisation that Atkins directly and indirectly benefited from the slave trade and colonial project refocused the artists’ research enquiry through a contemporary decolonial lens.
In addition to the life and work of Atkins, 'Almost Nothing But Blue Ground' investigates the Victorian fern craze, land ownership, capitalism, and the colonial project, in particular its links with botany and the plundering of foreign lands.
The exhibition at PrimeYarc will present some of the works associated with the project, and Tom and Matthew will also present a performance lecture on Friday 19 July and a workshop on Saturday 20 July.
FREE, All Welcome
Through TV Dinners Susannah Hewlett brings her work back to Norfolk after graduating from NUCA over 20 years ago – a buffet selection of her finest cold cuts; a platter of audio and televisual highlights and be-wigged character performance, including the return of perennial idiot Chris Titmas, egomaniacal VSS Shopping Channel host and ‘personality’.
Susannah Hewlett’s work crossbreeds live performance, video, comedy, theatre and sound. She performs and exhibits in galleries, theatres, museums, cinemas, nightclubs and festivals. She is an associate artist of the legendary queer performance collective Duckie.
Fixated on popular culture, her work disarms audiences, using comedy as a strategy through character-led performance, subtle interventions and videos. Humour often gives way to discomfort revealing the darker aspects of human behaviour and our symbiosis with consumerism.
TV Dinners is part of Norfolk & Norwich Festival, and there are various associated events. HARD LEISURE and the Great British Cack Off.
Featuring:
FREE, All Welcome
The term ‘adrift’ captures the essence of willingly letting go of moorings and releasing a predetermined destination. In this watchful state of ‘drifting,’ possibilities emerge, co-existing, and ideas take shape, each artist interpreting this space uniquely.
Being adrift involves embracing uncertainty, urging viewers to detach from explanatory texts and experience meaning as fluid and provisional. While the artists explore diverse painting practices, the exhibition doesn't aim to be a comprehensive overview but seeks unpredictable exchanges between works, offering fresh perspectives and new 'adrifts.'
The exhibition coincides with CONTRAcurricular, a Summit for radical and alternative art education organized by originalprojects;. Considering how ‘being adrift’ fits within formal educational structures will be explored. Venturing into the unknown involves a state of unknowing, where meanings are multiple, layered, and open to interpretation, challenging painting to reinvent itself continually.
. . . a d r i f t . . . is organized by originalprojects; in collaboration with Molly Thomson and Barbara Howey, supported by funding from the East Anglia Art Fund and Contemporary British Painting.
Saturday 2 February to Sunday 25 February
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Lowlifes presents collections of portraits created using a range of techniques by Richard Hancock, a studio member at PrimeYarc.
For one series, Richard begins by cutting out plywood silhouettes of portraits of convicts, then creates tonal areas through the application of finger and thumb prints, referencing the process that the convicts would have had to go through when they were arrested. This motley crew are presented as a crowd of anonymous faces, slightly blurred and indistinct, but all having stemmed from found archive materials.
Another group have been sourced from Richard’s family and ancestors, and these have been decorated and textured with staples and paper, as if taken from missing pet posters fixed to telegraph poles and fence panels, then torn away.
PrimeYarc
Market Gates Shopping Centre, Great Yarmouth
Open: Weds / Fri / Sat/ Sun 12 - 4 pm
FREE, All Welcome
Join us for February Fun and Fidget: Crafts and Wellbeing Workshops! Every Saturday in February, Site will be running a series of arts and crafts to encourage people to try out different activities and learn how to run their own. The aim is to promote mental health and well-being through focused and positive creative activities. During these workshops you will have the chance to create works which will be shown in an exhibition at the end. For more information, click here.
Supported with funding from Great Yarmouth and East Suffolk's Cultural Connections Volunteering scheme's Activation Grants.
FREE Workshops Every Saturday in February, starting at 12pm.
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.
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 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.
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.
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
Aims:
This event is a follow-up to the Creative Workspace Summit which took place in April 2018, and will be of interest to, Architects, city and town planners, SMEs, councillors, planners, policy decision-makers, economists, business owners, estate agents, artists, creatives, students, budding entrepreneurs, and anyone interested in creating vibrant and dynamic town centres and high streets.
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