MARTIN LAURANCE

Art Education:

Ipswich School of Art (Portrait Sculpture)

Norwich School of Art (Life drawing)

University of East Anglia, B.Ed. (Art & Design)

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 'Seeing Things', an interactive exhibition inspired by Charles Bonnet Syndrome. Painting, film, sculpture, digital and mixed media, virtual and augmented reality. The Forum, and the Crypt Gallery, Norwich Cathedral. Seven artists contributed. 'Aspire', N20 Group, The Hostry, Norwich Cathedral 'N2018G', The Forum, Norwich

2017 'Confluence', Multi Media Arts, with pianist Adrian Lever NWT, Cley Visitor Centre, Cley,

'Spring Exhibition', Aldeburgh Contemporary Arts, Suffolk

N20 Group, The Forum, Norwich

2016 'In Norfolk Now, Cley 16 ', Curated by Hugh Pilkington

'NCA16' The Forum, Norwich

'Eastern Horizons', N20 Group, The Forum, Norwich

2015 'Beyond the Horizon', Velvet Easel Gallery, Edinburgh

'Landscape Here & Now', Arts Centre

'The Transient Nature of Light', The Bank, Eye, Suffolk

2014 'Coast' Last Gallery, Zurich

'NCA14' The Forum, Norwich

'Coastline' (3 person exhibition), Theatre Royal, Norwich

'Sea and Shore'. The Minster, Great Yarmouth

'20 now 70, Norwich 20 Group Artists' 70th Anniversary Exhibition', The Forum, Norwich

2013 'Print exhibition', Aldeburgh Contemporary Arts

'Two person show', Addenbrookes Hospital, Cambridge

'Summer Show', Bircham Gallery, Holt

‘Beside the Sea', Norwich 20 Group, Salthouse Church

2012 'Ten Years After' Last Gallery, Zurich

'Looking into 20' The Forum, Norwich

'Picking Up Pieces' The Apex, Bury St Edmunds

‘The Eastern Open’, Fermoy Galleries, Kings Lynn

2011 Haus Metternich, Koblenz

Store Street Gallery, Bloomsbury, London

Stark Gallery, Canterbury

‘Twin Visions’, British & German Art, The Forum, Norwich

2010 ‘Norwich Printmakers’, Bankside Gallery, South Bank, London

‘Norfolk Contemporary Art 2010, The Forum, Norwich

2002-16 LAST, Zurich, Switzerland.

Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt

2009 “StoneEye’, Orford Ness 2009“, Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh

‘The Pastons Country’, Grapevine Gallery, Norwich

2008 ’Selected Artists’, Folkes Miller Fine Art, Long Melford, Suffolk

Castle Museum, Norwich

‘Print Fair, Elements II’, The Forum, Norwich.

Grapevine, Putney, London

2007 Outer Temple Chambers, (two person show), The Strand, London

2006 ‘Forty by Four’, Atticus Arts, Bath

Three person show, David Curzon Gallery, Wimbledon

John Allen Fine Arts, Core One, Chelsea.

Chocolate Factory Gallery, Southwark.

2004-10 Grapevine Gallery, Norwich. COSA, Notting Hill, London.

2003-06 David Curzon Gallery, Wimbledon, London. Walker Galleries, Harrogate

2000-05 John Russell Gallery, Ipswich

2001 ‘British Contemporary Art‘, Deloitte and Touche, Zurich, Switzerland

‘The Sea’, Fisherton Mill Gallery, Salisbury.

2000 -02 NNAC Millenium Exhibition, Norwich Cathedral

Woodbine Contemporary Arts, Lincolnshire.

Field Dalling Gallery, Norfolk. Red Gallery, Marlow.

Taylor Contemporary Art, Twickenham.

1992 -99 Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, Mall Galleries, London

‘Draw Attention’ The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne

Castle Museum, Norwich.

Heffer Gallery Cambridge. The Laing Open, Raveningham.

Contact Gallery, Norwich. Theatre Royal, Norwich.

The Riverside Gallery, Snape Maltings.

Barn Galleries, Aston, Henley-on-Thames

SOLO EXHIBITIONs

2018 'Through the Senses', Mandell's Gallery, Norwich

2017 'From Land to Sea', DM21, Diss, Norfolk

2016 'Living Landscapes', Last Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

'Land and Sea', Theatre Royal, Norwich

2015 'Landscapes of Time and Place', Mandells Gallery, Norwich

2013 ‘Painted with a Passion’, Last Gallery, Zurich

‘Light on the Landscape’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich

2011 ‘A Sense of Place’, Mandells Gallery, Norwich

‘Paintings of Orford Ness’, Theatre Royal, Norwich

2010 'Recent Paintings', LAST Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

2009 'Coast to Coast', Grapevine Gallery, Norwich

2007 'Recent Paintings', LAST Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

'Recent Paintings', Grapevine Gallery, Norwich

2005 'New Work', LAST Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland

'Recent Paintings', Grapevine Gallery, Norwich

2002/04 John Russell Gallery, Ipswich

2003 Bircham Contemporary Art, Holt

1998/99/00/01/02 Frames Gallery, Norwich

1998 The Music House Gallery, Snape Maltings, Aldeburgh

1996 The Lantern Gallery, Walberswick

1995 The Frederick Gallery, Raveningham

1994 St. Gregory’s Art Centre, Norwich

ART FAIRS AND FESTIVALS:

Cambridge City Art Fair, 2013/2014

Glasgow Art Fair, 2012

Brighton Art Fair 2010. Palace Art Fair 2010, Fulham

‘Art on Paper’ Royal College of Art, London.

London Art 2006, Islington. Art London 2005, Chelsea.

‘Affordable Art Fair’, Bristol and Battersea, London

'The Norwich Print Fair', various dates

The Reepham Festival 2008

Norfolk & Norwich Open Studio Scheme, 1997/98/99/2000/08/09/10/11/14/15/16

‘The Eastern Open‘, 1998/99/01/03/09/10/12 Fermoy Gallery, Kings Lynn

RESIDENCIES AND COLLABORATIONS:

2017: 'Confluence', multi media arts, with pianist Adrian Lever and visual artists Martin Laurance, Sarah Cannell, Alison Harvey and Bill Vine. NWT, Cley visitor centre, Cley, Norfolk.

2015: 'Landscape Here and Now' exhibition, curated by and including Martin Laurance

2014: Art workshops as part of a 'Poets Progress', a walk along the Norfolk coast path. Led by the award winning poet, Caroline Gilfillan

2011: Solo exhibition of paintings from the Orford Ness residency at the Theatre Royal, Norwich, opened by Duncan Kent from the National Trust

2008 -9: Six artists work as 'artists in residence', with the National Trust, responding to the former military site at Orfordness, Suffolk. Exhibitions in Orford and at the Peter Pears Gallery, Aldeburgh, Suffolk, 2009

2008: Over twenty artists and writers collaborated to produce a hand- made limited edition book and touring exhibition based upon ‘The Paston Letters’.

COLLECTIONS:

The National Trust

Deloitte & Touche (Zurich)

Targetfollow PLC

The Sainsbury Centre Loan collection, University of East Anglia

ART GROUPS:

The Norwich 20 Group (chairman 2015-2017).

Norfolk Contemporary Art Society

MEDIA:

Featured in 'A Forgotten Norwich Artist, Catherine Maude Nichols', by P. Inder and M. Aldis, Poppyland Publishing, 2016

Interviews on Radio Norfolk and Future Radio about the curation of ' 'Landscape Here and Now', March 2015

'Vibrant & Vivid: Our Coastline on Canvas', Feature article in 'Suffolk, Norfolk Life', Feb 2014

‘Aldeburgh, a Song of the Sea’, by Tim Coates, Antique Collectors Club 2013

Martin Laurance interviewed about his recent work at Orford Ness and his career by Lesley Dolphin, BBC Radio Suffolk , October 2011

Martin Laurance interviewed about his current work and career by David Lindsay. Future Radio, July 2011

Cover painting and inserts for ‘Each Crumbling House’ by Melody S. Gee, winner of the 2010 Perugia Press Book Prize. Published June 2010 by Perugia Press, MA.,USA.

‘Paston Country’. DVD documenting the creation of a unique hand- made book by artists and writers. Argus Productions 2008

‘The Dictionary of Artists in Britain since 1945’, Ed. David Buckman

‘Arty-Facts’ (featured artist), Anglia TV, 2004

‘Wide Skies, a Century of Painting and Painters in Norfolk’ by A. May & B. Watts 2003

Feature articles in the ‘Artist’ magazine, various dates

STATEMENT:

My work is about landscape. In my paintings I try to convey the spirit and reality of a place. Going beyond the immediate sensation to something felt and experienced.

Many of my locations are very well known to me and have been walked over and drawn many times. In the studio I use this raw material to create a work that is true to my experience. By allowing other elements such as memory to enter the picture making process at this stage the work becomes richer, and to me, more meaningful.

I work in a variety of mixed media; oil, acrylic, collage, ink, charcoal, watercolour and gouache, singly or in combinations on paper or canvas.