WIGHTON 24, 4 JULY – 4 AUGUST 2024
10 am – 5pm daily
All Saint’s Church
26 Kirkgate Lane
Wighton
Wells-next-the-Sea
NR23 1PL

“This year the brief is brief: the artists will explore and push the boundaries of their practice and, in that spirit of exploration, amaze and impress with exciting new work personifying themselves.”

Mary Crofts and Debbie Lyddon, curators.

Four WNAA artists took on the challenge and are taking part in Wighton 24.

Esther Boehm
Permanence / Impermanence
As an artist, I explore the concepts of permanence and impermanence in different experimental ways. In this exhibition, I am using recycled and natural materials. The plants growing in the churchyard and conservation area of All Saints Church in Wighton, Norfolk have inspired the new organic forms of the sculptures. The sculpture outside will be exposed to the elements and is expected to decay throughout the month long exhibition. The sculpture in the church will be protected from outdoor elements. Time will tell what will happen …

estherboehm.com

 

Helen Breach
The Pasta Project
A series of pasta inspired ceramics. My personal boundary pushing project as per the brief for the exhibition

As a great pasta eater, this project has been a delight but technically difficult. There are over thirty different shapes of pasta! My skills in working assorted clays have been tested, various forms of modelling have been required – slabbing, coiling, moulding, throwing and experimenting with different glazes. Not to mention the fraught anticipation as dishes emerge from the kiln! With special thanks to Paul Ebbens, ceramic facilitator at COWA for his help and glazing advice.

The menu will include tagliatelle, spaghetti, fusilli and squid linguine!

helenbreach.com

 

Michelle Louise Carter MAFA
I have recently been working with the theme of disability and the vulnerability of the innocence of birth. My work has seen new processes and ideas making realistic stone carved infant faces into sculptures. My Wighton24 project is a continuation of current work, though expanding in size dramatically to almost 9 feet high. The Branch Babies Totem is to be sighted outside and consists of natural foraged branches, recycled clay and other slip mixes from ground cement and local rocks, incorporating 17 unique carved faces set within the totem ‘tree’.

darkartnorfolk.co.uk

 

Paul Smith
Sky Canopy
I have been painting skies for more than 45 years and corrugating has been a part of my work since my art school days walking to college along the back alleys of Sydney, fascinated by the variety of colour and texture.
Though I see this painting as sky, some see it as water, so I’m thrilled to see it displayed above our heads which works for those gazing up or those who view it as if underwater.

Crucifixion Entropy
A venerated figure falls to the ground. It becomes one with the earth, the ash and the dust, later to be excavated, emerges and rises in a much altered to be honoured and admired once again.

I have always been interested in the iconography, symbolism in religious art. Also the significance and meanings of the colours used and the associated language.

In this piece I endeavoured to create something visually striking and powerful but hopefully still a bit mysterious.

paulsmithart.com
artgallery.co.uk

The North Norfolk Exhibition Project (NNEP) promotes the profile of contemporary visual arts in north Norfolk by means of an annual open contemporary art exhibition. With associated workshops and events, it encourages and extends accessibility and inclusion in the enjoyment and process of contemporary art for all sections of the public.

Accompanying the exhibition is a series of free workshops and events.