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Social Distancing
Here at The Aylsham Centre we take your safety very seriously. That’s why we’ve implemented various signs and floor stickers to help you to maintain social distancing when you visit us.Here at The Aylsham Centre we take your safety very seriously. That’s why we’ve implemented various signs and floor stickers to help you to maintain social distancing when you visit …
Face Coverings
Following recent government advice, we would like to remind everyone visiting the centre from the 25th July to please remember to wear a face-covering that covers the mouth and nose.
Everything’s Mustard by Sarah Roberts
7 Nov — 4 Dec 2019 We are happy to announce our forthcoming exhibition Everything’s Mustard, an immersive mixed-media installation by artist Sarah Roberts, who has painstakingly made and collected yellow objects to amass a meticulous, yet arbitrary, new chromatic work. Inspired by her experience of an epic clear out of her late Mother’s seaside bungalow in mid Wales after …
Podium Sales by Luke Burton
7 September – 27 October 2019 Unit 6 Aylesham Centre We are delighted to announce a solo presentation by artist Luke Burton. Produced in response to Picnic’s contextual and architectural characteristics, Podium Sales consists of an installation of painted cut-outs and hand-made flash sale signs that suggest a sport shop’s window dressing. The exhibition is organised around two moments in the lifecycle …
Mobility by Jason Kerley
12 July – 1 September 2019 Unit 6 Aylesham Centre Jason Kerley is a collector of things. For his show Mobility, Kerley presents collections within a collection. The objects he has chosen are drawn from all sorts of places: cheap toys and balloons, creative commons clip art, cartoon eyes and flowers. Through manipulating these objects Kerley explores the reproduction of …
Thirsty by Naomi Fitzsimmons
1 June – 7 July 2019 Private View: 31 May 7.30 – 9PM Unit 6 Aylesham Centre Picnic is delighted to announce Thirsty by Naomi Fitzsimmons, a new video installation exploring the surprisingly complex meanings that surround water. Fitzsimmons is particularly interested in the way that even though water can seem so basic – sweat, tears, thirst, rain – it’s …
Pedro Moreira: Skeuomorph
27 JAN—24 MAR 2019 PRIVATE VIEW 26 JAN 3—4.30PM UNIT 6 AYLESHAM CENTRE Pedro Moreira, also known as the digital artist persona Ped.Moreira, is a queer multi-racial artist based between Porto and London. His work explores the idea of reality through theology, identity and virtual theory. Using videogames, social media, and other virtual landscapes to create videos, installations, and performances, …
Rosie McGinn: 3 for 1
EXHIBITION 4 NOV—12 DEC 2018 CLOSING EVENT 13 DEC 2018 | 7–9PM Rosie McGinn’s three installations explore how we push ourselves to extreme limits and chase after mind-blowing experiences in the search for our place in the world. Full Howse is a giant, hand made, leopard-printed bingo woman, inflatable sculpture. As the air flows through the nylon structure the women …
Ben Doherty: Serious Hats
15 SEPT—27 OCT 2018 For the inauguration of Picnic in September 2018, we are pleased to present the new exhibition Serious Hats. Ben Doherty is the first artist to take over the long commercial display unit, and to present works that have been produced in response to the unique attributes of the space, and its location in a walkway. Ben …
