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Annual Open Weekend

22 Aug 2015 – 23 Aug 2015

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Saturday
12:00 – 17:00
Sunday
12:00 – 17:00

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Wysing Arts Centre

Cambridge, United Kingdom

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  • 18 or 18A from City Centre to Bourn
  • BR Cambridge Station ( 8 miles)
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Wysing’s Annual Open Weekend returns this year with a range of contributions including exhibitions, events and performances alongside eleven artists working from Wysing opening their studios; a rare treat.

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We also have a range of sculpture across our 11 acre site, which includes walks and picnic areas, and we will be operating a café over the weekend. Free and all welcome. 

Annual Open Weekend

Opening their studios will be:

Alexandra Drysdale, Bettina Furnée, Alison Gibb, Naomi Harwin, Josepa Munoz, Florian Roithmayr, Emma Smith, Rob Smith, Soheila Sokhanvari, Ash Summers and Caroline Wendling

The weekend also marks the end of our annual Leverhulme Arts Scholars Summer School. The scholars will have been working at Wysing over the previous six weeks, taking part in workshops and mentoring sessions with artists who have been in-residence and worked at Wysing including Jesse Darling, Joey Holder, Florian Roithmayr, Caroline Wendling alongside curator Irene Revell. Works developed during the summer school will be presented in the gallery.

The artists participating in our summer school this year are:

Chris Alton, Calum Bowden, Gordon Douglas, Henry Driver, George Harding, Emily Hawes, Steph Li, Helen Savage, Sophia Simensky, Ben Tupper, Jules Varnedoe, Nathaniel Whitfield

Irene Revell, Director of Electra, will be in-residence across the summer and will curating events as part of the summer school and our music festival, further details on that here.

Plus we recently launched two new site works that form part of our growing collection of outdoor sculpture including by artists Rupert Norfolk, Laure Prouvost, Joanna Rajkowska, The Grantchester Pottery and Bedwyr Williams. The full list of works is here.

Transport to Wysing
There will be return transport available to Wysing from Cambridge Train Station on both Saturday and Sunday.  To book a place please visit our Eventbrite page here.

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