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, Norwich 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, Norfolk
'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', Wymondham 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.