Wysing Arts Centre is a
contemporary art
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s
residency
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centre and campus for artistic production, experimentation and learning in
South Cambridgeshire
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, England. The centre was established in 1989 and completed a £1.7 million capital development project in 2008. Across the eleven-acre site the centre holds ten buildings, including 24 low-cost artists' studios, a live-work space, specialist new media facilities, a large gallery, education facilities and a 17th-century grade II listed farmhouse which is used as accommodation for residencies and retreats. The main focus of the centre's activities is the international residency programme, but it also hosts temporary exhibitions, retreats, a programme for young artists, semi-permanent sculptural and architectural commissions and works on offsite projects with many other institutions nationally and internationally. It is a
registered charity under English law.
In 2010 Wysing was invited to join
Plus Tate; one of only two of the twenty organisations in the network whose work is focused on process and production rather than on the presentation of extant works. Alongside Plus Tate, Wysing has a number of partnerships in place with organisations including the
Royal College of Art
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, the
Royal Society of Arts, the
British Council
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, the
Contemporary Art Society
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,
Anglia Ruskin University
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,
Cambridge University
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and the Contemporary Visual Arts Network.
Residencies
* ''Convention T'' – including artists Anna Barham, James Beckett,
Michael Dean,
Cécile B. Evans,
David Osbaldeston, Seb Patane,
Charlotte Prodger
Charlotte Prodger (born 1974) is a British artist and film-maker who works with "moving image, printed image, sculpture and writing". Her films include ''Statics'' (2021), ''SaF05'' (2019), ''LHB'' (2017), ''Passing as a great grey owl'' (2017), ...
and Florian Roithmayr
* ''The Forest'' – including artists Jonathan Baldock, Edwin Burdis,
Emma Hart and
Jess Flood-Paddock, and musician
Luke Abbott
* ''The Mirror'' – including artists
Ed Atkins, Nicolas Deshayes, Philomene Pirecki and
Elizabeth Price
* ''The Cosmos'' – Salvatore Arancio, Flora Parrott, Nilsson Pflugfelder and Stuart Whipps
* ''The Department of Overlooked Histories'' – including artists An Endless Supply, Ruth Beale, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry and Emma Smith
* ''The Department of Psychedelic Studies'' – including artists Mark Essen, Hilary Koob-Sassen, Kate Owens, Damien Roach
* ''The Department of Wrong Answers'' – including artists Rob Filby, Francesco Pedraglio &
Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You".
Career
Pr ...
, Giles Round and Cally Spooner
* ''The Camp For Improbable Thinking'' – including artists Asli Cavusoglu,
Andy Holden, Fabiano Marques, Julie Myers, Emily Rosamond and
Bedwyr Williams
Bedwyr Williams (born 1974) in St. Asaph is a Welsh artist. He works across varied media including drawing, painting, writing and video..
Biography
He studied at St Martins School of Art and Ateliers, Arnhem.
In 2004, he won a Paul Hamlyn Awa ...
* ''Communities under Construction'' – including artists A Kassen, Folke Köbberling and Martin Kaltwasser, N55,
Public Works
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, Townley and Bradby and Helen Stratford
* ''Wysing Polyphonic: The Ungoverned (guest curated by Anne Duffau)'' – including artists Maëva Berthelot, Whiskey Chow, CRYSTALLMESS, Tanaka Fuego, Hannah Catherine Jones, Rachel Long, LYZZA, mobilegirl, Coby Sey and audio research group AUDINT
Exhibitions
* Jonathan Baldock – ''A Strange Cross Between a Butchers Shop and a Nightclub''
* ''Relatively Absolute'' – including artists Luke Abbott, Salvatore Arancio,
Ed Atkins, Jonathan Baldock, Edwin Burdis, Patrick Coyle, Nicolas Deshayes,
Jess Flood-Paddock, Emma Hart, Nilsson Pflugfelder, Flora Parrott, Philomene Pirecki,
Elizabeth Price and Stuart Whipps
* ''Recollect'' including artists Better Futures Forever, Jackie Chettur,
Phil Coy
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, Sean Edwards, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Una Knox, Rosie Pedlow & Joe King.
* ''The Starry Rubric Set'' – including artists Marjolijn DijkmAn, Ruth Beale, Nicholas Deshayes, Rob Filby,
John Latham, Karin Kihlberg & Reuben Henry, Kate Owens,
Laure Prouvost
Laure Prouvost (born 1978) is a French artist living and working in Antwerp, Belgium. She won the 2013 Turner Prize. In 2019, she represented France at the Venice Biennale with the multi-media work "The Deep Blue Sea Surrounding You".
Career
Pr ...
, Giles Round
* ''Slipped'' – including artists Aaron Angell,
Caroline Achaintre, Lucy Conochie, Coco Crampton, Mark Essen, The Grantchester Pottery, Lawrence Leaman, Giles Round, Phil Root and Jesse Wine.
Funding
Wysing Arts Centre is one of Arts Council England's National Portfolio Organisations. Additional financial support for the programme comes from trusts and foundations including the
Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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, the Henry Moore Foundation, The Leverhulme Foundation and The Ernest Cooke Trust.
See also
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The Hepworth Wakefield
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Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art
MIMA, or Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, is a contemporary art gallery based in the centre of Middlesbrough, England. The gallery was formally launched on Sunday 27 January 2007; since 2014 it has been part of Teesside University.
Hist ...
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Turner Contemporary
Turner Contemporary is one of the UK’s leading contemporary art galleries. Celebrating Margate’s connection with the painter J.M.W. Turner (1775 – 1851), an artist who believed that art could be an agent of change, its year-round exhibition ...
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Tate St Ives
Tate St Ives is an art gallery in St Ives, Cornwall, England, exhibiting work by modern British artists with links to the St Ives area. The Tate also took over management of another museum in the town, the Barbara Hepworth Museum and Sculpture ...
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Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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Nottingham Contemporary
Nottingham Contemporary (formerly known as the Centre for Contemporary Art Nottingham (CCAN)) is a contemporary art centre in the Lace Market area of Nottingham. The gallery opened in 2009.
The gallery describes its site as being "the oldest in ...
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Firstsite
Firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex, which opened in 2011.
It was the national Art Fund's Museum of the Year in 2021.
The building Firstsite occupy as tenants was designed by Rafael Viñoly and the freehold is r ...
*
Kettle's Yard
Kettle's Yard is an art gallery and house in Cambridge, England. The director of the art gallery is Andrew Nairne. Both the house and gallery reopened in February 2018 after an expansion of the facilities.
Kettle's Yard galleries, shop and caf ...
References
External links
Official websiteBourn Village website
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Art museums established in 1989
Arts centres in England
Contemporary art galleries in England
1989 establishments in England
Art museums and galleries in Cambridgeshire
Charities based in England