Kate Boucher: Residency Reflections

In June, Kate Boucher came to Fen Ditton Gallery as our first artist-in-residence. Now a selection of works created from a new Fenland body of works are exhibited as part of our Art and Rivers show, open until Sunday 13th November.

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Rebecca Jewell Exploring Seaweeds

Artist, Rebecca Jewell, has been documenting the seaweeds in Cornwall as part of her current artist residency with Cambridge Conservation Initiative. These works will be on display at the gallery from the 18 - 27 November.

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Launch of artist residency programme

We are excited to launching our brand new artist residency programme next month by welcoming landscape artist, Kate Boucher, to Fen Ditton.

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Easter Update and Upcoming Exhibitions

This May, we are excited to be launching ‘In Dialogue’, a four part series of week-long exhibitions at the gallery. Each exhibition pairs two senior artists, working in different media, with just two or three, often rarely seen, works.

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Spring News and Upcoming Exhibitions

This Spring marks an exciting time for Fen Ditton Gallery, as Hannah gets ready to welcome her new baby into the world. With this sense of new beginnings, we are taking advantage of being a small, independent gallery and have put together a new and varied programme for the next few months…

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A story of Collaboration: The making of Merry Go Round by John McLean

We are delighted to be exhibiting John McLean’s Merry Go Round as part of our current exhibition, The Language of Abstraction. The work is a set of 9 etchings, inspired by Debussy’s Chevaux de Bois. During its creation, John McLean developed a form of Parkinson’s and could no longer visit The Print Studio, Cambridge, but despite the challenges John’s illness, he and Kip Gresham continued to collaborate to complete the work.

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Video: Willard Boepple at The Print Studio, Cambridge

Behind the scenes at The Print Studio, Cambridge with Kip Gresham and Willard Boeeple

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2021: End of year news

As we celebrate the new year, here’s a round up of 2021 at Fen Ditton Gallery.

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Video: Artist Interview with Annie Cattrell

Annie Cattrell’s works Brink and Currents are currently exhibited at Fen Ditton Gallery as part of our Water/Land exhibition. In this interview Annie discusses her practice and the scientific influences in her work.

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COP26: Arts and Culture in the Climate Crisis

All of us have a part to play in the climate crisis and the gallery’s annual climate resilience support pledge (now in Year 4) is to create an exhibition that forges new dialogue between local knowledge and creative thinking whilst in the process.

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Cambridge Independent: Fen Ditton Gallery is breaking down the barriers of the art world for young collectors

Fen Ditton Gallery is on a mission to make art collecting accessible for everyone. Hannah Munby, gallery manager, said: “We often find that younger visitors to the gallery are interested in starting to collect art, but just don’t have the confidence to begin.

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Vote for us in the Muddy Stiletto Awards 2021

We’re delighted to announce that we are in the finals for the ‘Best Art Gallery’ in the the Muddy Stiletto Cambridgeshire and Suffolk Awards 2021 and now we need your votes… Head over to the Muddy Stiletto website and follow the instructions to vote. It only takes a few minutes and we would be very grateful. Wish us luck!

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Cambridge Independent: Monkey business during lockdown for Fen Ditton Gallery’s printmaker exhibition

A printmakers’ exhibition at Fen Ditton Gallery has thrown some unusual themes into the mix…

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Winner of Contemporary Printmaking Prize: Stefan Tiburcio

Stefan Tiburcio took up woodcut printmaking during the pandemic and went on to win the inaugural Contemporary Printmaking Prize…

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Spring News from Hannah

This week has been a time of reflection as the country marked the anniversary of the start of the first national lockdown. Hannah shares some of her thoughts on the last year and looks forwards to what the gallery has in store when it can re-open in a few weeks.

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£1,500 donated Plantlife Charity’s Road Verges Campaign

We are delighted to have donated £1,500 to the Plantlife charity’s, Road Verges project. Find out how the money raised will support UK wildflowers

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FAQs: Contemporary Printmaking Prize 2021

Everything you need to know about entering the prize

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FAQs: Covid-19 Update

Last update: 2nd January 2021

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Video: 2020 In Review by Hannah Munby

As we welcome in the new year, Hannah looks back on the last 12 months…

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