We are delighted to announce that Rosie Millard OBE has been appointed the new Chair of Firstsite’s Board of Trustees. Rosie is currently the Chair of BBC Children in Need, which last year raised a total of £60.7m and…
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Taking Up Space at Firstsite, Colchester, is Emily Mulenga’s first major solo presentation. The exhibition features a selection of dynamic moving image works alongside animated GIFs and personalised emojis, showcasing Mulenga’s use of digital language to investigate identity in the…
Firstsite presents Screen Play – a season of free exhibitions and events celebrating new art using digital moving image throughout Autumn 2017. EXHIBITIONS Emily Mulenga Taking up SpaceSat 30 September – Sun 5 NovemberFind out more We: You, Me Three emerging curators explore…
We will be exhibiting the finalists and winners of the BP Portrait Award 2016. Now in its thirty-seventh year, the competition is truly international, attracting 2,557 entries by artists from 80 countries around the world, and offering a £30,000…
Acclaimed Chinese artist Zhang Enli opened his exhibition at Firstsite on the weekend. The exhibition consists of ten works in oil, as well as a ‘Space Painting’, a monumental, site-specific installation that was created by Enli over a 10-day…
We caught up with Stevphen Shukaitis Senior Lecturer in Culture & Organisation at Essex University and co-curator of the Gee Vaucher exhibition, and aked him some questions on Introspective.
Eve Libertine, the former singer in the anarcho-pacifist punk band Crass, will be performing at Firstsite this Friday, December 2nd.