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Marianne is delighted to be showing dreamy landscapes in oils, and assemblages made from found objects, in the lovely light Gallery Upstairs at the historic Fisher Theatre in Broad Street, Bungay, NR35 1EE. The show runs until Thursday 18th July.

Monday 10am-1pm

Tuesday 1pm-3pm

Thursday Friday Saturday 10am-3pm

also during performances.

Wednesday and Sunday closed.

Please ring 01986 897130 to check as Gallery is sometimes used for meetings.

www.fishertheatre.org         [email protected]

Pollock and Abstract Expressionism have long been associated with the white American male ego. In contrast, Fiona Fitzgerald will explore the work of contemporary female abstract artists such as Krasner, Nevelson and Mitchell. She will connect both the extent of their fame and their relative exclusion with the responses of their partners, gallery owners, critics and collectors. This talk happens at The Cut, Halesworth on 17th July at 10.30am and costs £8. This talk relates to the Lee Krasner Living Colour, exhibition at the Barbican Centre.

To book, visit The Cut’s website.

We consider new towns as a phenomenon of the 20th century but have been part of the social and commercial structure of British society since Roman times. New Buckenham was a latecomer to the East Anglian scene having been established by the 1st Earl Willian d’Albini as an adjunct to his new castle of Buckenham at some time between 1146 and his death in 1176. William planned his new town in a simple grid pattern on a spur of land rising a few metres above a western-flowing beck that eventually forms one of the head-waters of the River Thet. New Buckenham is well-known to historians as a planned town whose layout and scale is largely unaltered since medieval times, but few records exist before 1530. This study therefore draws on the period post 1530 concentrating on the town’s heyday in the 16th and 17th centuries. Its decline after 1780 means that much of the housing stock has been retained to the present day and the ownership of many of these homes have been reconstructed from the evidence available.

Originally published in 2000 and out of print since 2003, this revised edition is the result of painstaking research by Paul Rutledge, the former Borough Archivist for Great Yarmouth and former Deputy County Archivist for Norfolk. Un-completed on his death in 2015, it has now been finished by his widow, Elizabeth, and provides a unique insight into the working life of a post-medieval Norfolk market town.

The book will be available in July 2019.

ISBN 978 1 909796 44 7

Anticipated price £9.95

Norfolk-based artist Genevieve Rudd is leading creative workshops this summer around the county.

Saturday 13th July, 10am to 4pm
Cyanotype printing workshop
£40
Cley Contemporary Art – Cley-next-the-sea, Norfolk

Dancers, a piper, a blimp, kids’ activities, a musical show and a church service will bring to a climax Diss Museum’s airship commemoration.

This is on the weekend, in 1919, that the R34 completed its historic double airborne conquest of the Atlantic and return to Pulham.

Seven years in the making and involving air museums in Scotland, Germany, the USA, Denmark and Spitsbergen, the project has also involved local art, textile and model groups, schools and UOS students. See www.airships.me.uk

Poppyland Publishing is presently working on a re-work of “Suffolk Scene” by Julian Tennyson. Originally written in 1938 and published in June 1939, on the eve of the Second World War. Well-received, with tellingly enthusiastic reviews in the News Chronicle and many local papers, this young man’s unsentimental love of the Suffolk countryside and its people spoke to the yearning of a nation preparing for war, reminding them of everything they feared might be lost. Tennyson was just 23 years old when he wrote the book and by the time it had found popularity he had already signed up to go to war, with a fierce youthful optimism that he would survive and return to his budding literary career as poet and author. His passion for the idea of ‘England’ was his driving ideology, something he felt to be his inescapable inheritance as a great grandson of the Victorian Poet Laureate, Alfred, Lord Tennyson. He was serving in the army when Suffolk Scene was reprinted in 1940, 1941, 1943 and 1944 but killed in action by the time the last two editions of the 1940s were published in 1945 and 1946. Our edition includes a 21st century commentary by Elaine Murphy, Baroness Murphy of Aldgate, in which she states, “Eighty years after first publication, the changes that Suffolk has witnessed reflect the transformation of rural England in the postwar twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. And yet there is a timeless quality to much of Tennyson’s Suffolk that resonates with the early 21st century.” The book is planned for October / November this year.