The East Anglians exhibition - ON SHOW DURING 2010
27 March - 26 June 2010: Gainsborough's House, Sudbury, Suffolk. Mon-Sat 10am-5pm.
46 Gainsborough Street, Sudbury, Suffolk, CO10 2EU. Tel. 01787 372958
(related events will be announced soon).
July 2010, the Old Stables Gallery, Diss, Norfolk.
Further venues will be posted soon.
The East Anglians is now available for touring exhibitions, please see the gallery on this website for a selection of images and contact Justin Partyka for more details and availability.
The exhibition features colour photographs. They take the viewer on the journey that Justin Partyka has made into the agrarian world of the East Anglia region in the UK. It is a place where traditional methods and knowledge and still depended upon, and the identity of the people is intimately shaped by the landscape upon which they live and work. While the East Anglians stand in the face of change, this is a rural world that is reluctant to disappear.
Please see The East Anglians gallery for more details (see menu to the left).
Uopn seeing Partyka's photographs, Andrew Motion wrote:
"There is also one very good surprise in the show: some photographs by the East Anglian artist Justin Partyka, which show people at work cutting reeds in Suffolk, or harvesting sugar beet in Norfolk. They look boldly new and yet as old as the hills (except there are no hills in his pictures). The reed-cutter lurches towards the lens with the ear-flaps of his hat hanging loose, creating a powerful sense of what Hopkins called "sheer plod", but also a bewitching richness of reference. He might be a crashed airman, or even a flightless Mercury. If anyone thought the tradition of landscape art was exhausted, as landscape itself continues to vanish under concrete and tyres, these photographs will make them think again."
Andrew Motion, review of A Picture of Britain (Tate Britain 15 June – 4 Sept 2005), the Guardian Review, 28 May 2005.
The East Anglians exhibition has been generously supported by Metro Imaging, and the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich, where the work premiered as a major exhibition 29 September - 13 December 2009.
Exhibition related links:
Andrew Lambirth's review in the Spectator.
An interview with Justin Partyka in the on-line magazine Caught by the River.
The East Anglians featured on Design Observer .
The East Anglians featured on Burn magazine.