Celebrating Trees Norwich

12/11/2021

Final chance to see this wonderful exhibition. Open for one last day on Sat 13 Nov from 10am to 4pm.

A look at Celebrating Trees, an art exhibition in Norwich in November 2021 organised and curated by Mary Mellor and Caroline Hoskin.

11/11/2021

More photos of the exhibition launch by Noah Da Costa.

11/11/2021

Last few days to see Celebrating Trees. It closes this Saturday 13 Nov at 4pm. Here are a few photographs of the exhibition taken by Noah Da Costa.

09/11/2021

https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/why-wed-be-lost-without-art-8471840 We love this article by artist Peter Offord about the importance of art. He recommends Celebrating Trees...

Norwich resident and artist Peter Offord says art has always been a channel used for people to express themselves

09/11/2021

This poem was written for Celebrating Trees by George Szirtes. It's one of several poems on display at the exhibition. The Poetry Foundation say the following about George Szirtes ... George Szirtes was born in Hungary and emigrated to England with his parents—survivors of concentration and labor camps—after the 1956 Budapest uprising.

Szirtes studied painting at Harrow School of Art and Leeds College of Art and Design. At Leeds he studied with Martin Bell, who encouraged Szirtes as he began to develop his poetic themes: an engaging mix of British individualism and European fluency in myth, fairy tale, and legend. Szirtes’s attention to shape and sound, cultivated through his background in visual art and his bilingual upbringing, quickly led to his successful embrace of formal verse. In an essay in Poetry magazine defending form, Szirtes argues that “rhyme can be unexpected salvation, the paper nurse that somehow, against all the odds, helps us stick the world together while all the time drawing attention to its own fabricated nature.”

His first book, The Slant Door (1979), won the Faber Memorial Prize. Bridge Passages (1991) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Poetry Prize. Reel (2004) won the T.S. Eliot Prize, and his New and Collected Poems was published by Bloodaxe in 2008.

Szirtes did not return to Hungary until 1984, when he visited on the first of several Arts Council traveling scholarships. He has since translated, edited, and anthologized numerous collections of Hungarian poetry. For his translation work Szirtes has won several awards, including the Dery Prize for Imre Madach’s The Tragedy of Man (1989) and the European Poetry Translation Prize for Zsuzsa Rakovsky’s New Life (1994). His own work has been translated into numerous languages and widely anthologized, including in Penguin’s British Poetry Since 1945.

He is the author of Exercise of Power (2001), a critical study of the artist Ana Maria Pacheco. He co-edited, with Penelope Lively, New Writing 10 (2001). Szirtes has written extensively for radio and is the author of more than a dozen plays, musicals, opera libretti, and oratorios.

Szirtes lives in England with his wife, the painter Clarissa Upchurch, with whom he ran the Starwheel Press. They collaborated on Budapest: Image, Poem, Film (2006). He is a member of the Advisory Panel of the British Center for Literary Translation, and is on the Advisory Board of the Poetry Book Society. He has been a member of the Royal Society of Literature since 1982.

04/11/2021

Article in Folk Features about the exhibition

An exhibition celebrating trees, ‘the most important organisms on the planet’ according to acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey, opened in Norwich last night. And it couldn’t be more timely During […]

04/11/2021

For those who couldn't make the launch of Celebrating Trees art exhibition last night. Here's nature writer Richard Mabey's impressive speech about trees and their importance.

Acclaimed nature writer Richard Mabey gave a speech about trees and their importance in our lives as part of the launch of an art exhibition Celebrating Tree...

29/10/2021

Just a few days until the Celebrating Trees exhibition opens on 1 Nov. Here's a book recommendation in anticipation. Trees in Art by Charles Watkins. 'Illuminates trees that are much more than mere plants. Reveals the enduring practice, genius and meaning behind how artists render trees.'

28/10/2021

Meet the artist: Sarah Cannell
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Look out for Sarah's work in the Celebrating Trees exhibition.

"My creative process all starts with drawing, colour and creative freedom through play and experimentation," says Sarah.

"I split my time between painting, printmaking, ceramics, running workshops and curating exhibitions. All of which feed into each other and inspire my practise. I exhibit across the UK and have work in permanent private and public collections.

I believe that a painting, print, ceramic or photograph can only really work if the initial drawing or idea has a strong composition form. I have spent many years walking, drawing, searching for compositions on the marshes, footpaths and in the lanes around the Waveney Valley. There are echoes of the past everywhere in the landscape, holloways, paths that have been created by people or subtle tracks made by hares finding the quickest route through a hedge or across a field. The impact of human activity can be heavy handed like the route of an old train line across a marsh or subtle, like the replanting of field hedgerows with Blackthorn, Hawthorn, Sloe, Spindleberry.

My love of colour is evident in all my artworks, it’s always a joy to discover a vibrant Spindleberry with it’s bright orange berry encased in a bright pink pod. There really are the most intense flashes of colour out in what at first glance looks like a green/brown marshland. From the Campion along the side of the road in the spring, Dogwood sprouting in the hedgerows, bright red Holly berries to the intense blueish purple of ripe Sloes, the heavy red/brown of the soil and the bright skies reflected in puddles in the lanes."

27/10/2021

Meet the artist: Alex Egan
Alex is based in Norfolk and a member of The Arborealists, a group of artists passionate about trees. She has a degree in Fine Art from Bristol. Visit Alex's website www.alexegan.co.uk where you can find lots more of her work that centres on trees.

26/10/2021

Norwich Evening News have published photographs of work from our participating artists Jane Sanger and Claire Cansick in their pre-piece about the event on 1 Nov.

The Celebrating Trees exhibition will feature 40 artists, many Norfolk-based, and will include a new trail for trees in Norwich of historical interest.

21/10/2021

The new account - just went live for 2021 event. It will keep you updated on this art exhibition taking place 1-13 Nov in Norwich https://www.instagram.com/celebratetreesnorwich/