YAK: Zero Contract: Zero Contact 4 – 26 November 2023 A new, pop-up exhibition produced by Firstsite’s Young Art Kommunity (YAK), in association with Essex County Fire and Rescue Service, seeks to highlight issues affecting younger…
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On 1 April 2023 YAK worked on HERE FOR NOW – Shape Your Mind – which took the form of an interactive and eclectic arts and performance festival.
You will be drawing the human form in various poses and levels of detail from highly detailed and anatomically proportional drawings to loose and expressive sketches. Find out more.
At midnight on Sun 2 July 2023, EVEWRIGHT performed a private libation at Firstsite ahead of the opening of his exhibition.
As the evenings grow longer, so do our opening hours! From 1 June 2023, our entire building including our galleries, café, bar and shop will be staying open late on Thursday, Fridays and Saturdays. There’ll be a wide variety…
Fifteen of Essex and Suffolk’s most exciting artistic talents have been recognised in the Firstsite Collector’s Group 2022 Bursary Awards.
On 2 July, we joined 29 museums and galleries across the UK to host We Are Invisible We Are Visible (WAIWAV), presented by DASH, the Disabled-led visual arts organisation.
Artist Sheryl Jenkins worked with Firstsite’s YAK (Young Art Kommunity) to create and animated film in Spring 2022. Watch it here
We are delighted to announce that Firstsite has been shortlisted for the 2020 £100,000 Freelands Award.