Open 23 March – 23 June 2024 The award-winning artist David Lock brings an exciting mix of existing work and new paintings to Firstsite in early spring for his first solo public exhibition. The Colchester setting is also…
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To coincide with the reopening of its upgraded cinema on Thursday 23 November, Firstsite is launching a membership scheme that will give culture lovers UNLIMITED FREE access to all its standard film screenings over a 12-month period, along with…
Saturday 14 October 2023 – Sunday 14 April 2024 Claire Cansick’s (b.1971) new exhibition, You and I Are Earth – her first in a public gallery – acts as a stark reminder of the increasingly damaging effects of climate…
The Firstsite Collectors’ Group Bursary Awards scheme aims to support artists working in Essex and Suffolk with their professional career development. These annual awards are made possible through the Collectors’ Group continuing engagement and interest in contemporary visual art in the region.
Firstsite is delighted to announce the first solo exhibition by the acclaimed British artist EVEWRIGHT. Libation is a collection of seminal works spanning 20 years, and also includes a major new floor drawing artwork which will extend from the front to the back of the Colchester gallery.
Press release: Sarah Lucas, one of Britain’s most celebrated artists, who first came to prominence as a leading light in the generation of Young British Artists (YBAs), will curate a major exhibition at Firstsite in 2023 – and…
We are delighted to announce that we have been awarded £829,515 in grant funding from Arts Council England (ACE), as part of their 2023-26 Investment Programme. Arts Council England today announced its National Portfolio Organisation (NPO) grant funding to…
Colchester’s Firstsite is delighted to announce that it has been awarded nearly £700,000 by the Arts Council England’s Capital Investment Programme, allowing the town’s art gallery and cultural centre to invest in a number of improvements to its iconic…
Nearly £10,000 shared amongst some of the Essex and Suffolk’s most exciting artists
Press release: Works by artists Sarah Lucas, Ryan Gander, Julian Opie and Bharti Kher are being installed in the gardens around Firstsite as part of a new project, Sculpture at Firstsite. The Art Fund Museum of the Year…