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2024 July 15th to 28th – Annual Summer Art Exhibition 2024
St Edmundsbury Cathedral Cloisters


You can see work here from our past annual Exhibitions




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Here's a message from Mark Cordell about the WW1 Bury Art Trail:-

At 9 August 2018
WWI Art Trail update from Mark Cordell, CEO of BID Bury St Edmunds
There’s been much local media coverage about the trail and from 10 August, a video promoting it will be on the trail website.www.ourburystedmunds.com/ww1trail

We are hoping to benefit from some national coverage as we get nearer to the centenary of the end of the war. 10,000 trail leaflets have been printed and these are available at the four main
Tourism offices in town plus at most of the premises who are hosting a piece of art.

The WiSH charity is asking for people to donate 50p a trail leaflet/map to raise funds for the “Every Heart Matters” appeal.

SEE THE NEW FILM ABOUT THE WW1 BURY ART TRAIL:
Click here to see the film on You Tube...

The World War 1 Art Trail Opens in Bury St Edmunds

The World War 1 Bury Art Trail was opened this morning by the Mayor of Bury St Edmunds, Councillor Margaret Marks and Mark Cordell, Chief Executive of the Business Improvement District in Bury St Edmunds. There were photographs taken by the local press and on air with Radio Suffolk who spoke to our Chair, Rosie Copeland and other people at the event opening.
The photo above, shows the Mayor with the artist of the Trench Bench, Den Humphrey and Mark Cordell (left) and many of the artists who worked on the art trail project.
You should spot a few or our members (from middle to right) who worked on the art trail project.
Photo by Ros Lilley.

The WW1 artwork installation at the Guild Hall. Photos by Sara Muzira:-










Past Posts on this Project

WW1 2018 Project.
We have now finished the two large panels, each with 16 paintings showing artists impressions of WW1.
It is planned to install them at The Guild Hall on the 19th of July.
We will let you know when they are installed and on show.

WW1 2018 Project. Start of the final assembly.
Martin & Tony are starting the final assembly of the two large panels on Monday 14th May.
The 32 small painting panels will be glued and screwed onto the backing panels.
We will make outer frames and panel supports.
This will need to be done over several days to allow paint and final varnish to dry.
We will post more on here to let you know how it's going.

Our second Workshop for the WW1 2018 Project on Saturday 14th April
The second Workshop was to gather all the 32 paintings made by our members and then work on a good composition using them on the two 4ft X 4ft panels.
After this first layout assembly they will all be taken away for the final complete assembly to be made in one of our studios.
The gaps between the paintings panels will be painted in grey and an outer frame that goes around each large panel will be painted black.
Both large panels, complete, will be varnished with a clear exterior UV protecting coating so they can be displayed outdoors.
The large panels will be free standing on a purpose made supporting framework.





Our first Workshop for the WW1 2018 Project
The first of two workshops being held at the Southgate Community Centre was a great success.
Society members are working together to produce 32 paintings which will be combined into two large final pieces.
Each of the two final pieces will comprise 16 individual paintings, all on a World War 1 theme, as 2018 is the centenary of the end of WW1.
This project is for the Art Trail in Bury St Edmunds this year and is to help 'My Wish Charity' to raise money for the new £500,000 cardiac diagnostic unit at West Suffolk Hospital.

CLICK HERE TO SEE MORE PHOTOS FROM THIS WORKSHOP

Here's one of the many photos taken at this event:-


* WW1 2018 Project *

We've now made a good start on this project.
32 panels, one for each painting, have been prepared and many have already been distributed to artists working on the project.
There will be 2 workshops where artists can work together on paintings for the project.
The first workshop will be on Saturday 24th February and a 2nd pre-launch review workshop on Saturday 14th April.
The completion date is Saturday 30th June.
The Trail to be live from 23rd July till Monday 12th November.

Check back for more as this develops.

* The WW1 2018 Project - Started Last Year *

About 15 members taking part in the WW1 2018 Project met up at West Stow (Anglo Saxon Village museum) to look at various things from World War 1 which are looked after by West Stow.
The West Stow staff kindly brought these various things out for us to see and be a guide and inspiration for our art trail 2018 project.
This turned out to be a very enjoyable meeting and very useful as we discussed more of how this project should be developed.
It was also a very sociable meeting where we ended up in the cafe with nice hot drinks and discussed the project and much more.