Artist Chisato Minamimura performs an intervention aiming to highlight a deaf perspective of creativity as part of We Are Invisible We Are Visible.
See vast intricate and colourful artworks from internationally acclaimed artists, The Singh Twins. Delve into hidden details of Europe’s colonial past and its legacies, including current debates around ethical trade, responsible consumerism and decolonisation and racism.
Exhibition curators Simon Carter and Mel King of Colchester Art Society lead a tour of ‘Life with Art’ focusing on the different artists involved, and how they went about sourcing and selecting the artworks.
Explore the ground-breaking Firstsite Holiday Fun programme through vibrant artworks in this interactive exhibition celebrating the fun, friendly and creative ethos of Holiday Fun and the families who attend.
Join us for this special free event as we celebrate the opening of our new exhibition ‘Keep Being Amazing’
Imagine two drawings by two artists drifting across a five-mile stretch of salt-water, merging and morphing on the surface as they meet. Artists Simon Carter and Jevan Watkins Jones collaborate in this collection of charcoal drawings inspired by their…
Established by artist-gardener Cedric Morris and his partner Arthur Lett-Haines, the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing at Benton End became the centre of a diverse community of artists, writers, and horticulturalists throughout the 1940s and 1950s. With…
Join us for the opening of Life with Art: Benton End and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing, and be the first to see artworks from the iconic artists that were influenced by the Benton End art…
See artworks by artists Ryan Gander, and Bharti Kher in our new sculpture park.
MiniCLIP – a free weekly music club for young people age 11 to 14 at Firstsite Colchester, on term time Wednesdays from 4 – 5pm.