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 Past Major Exhibitions

28^th July - 4^th Nov 2012

Heaven’s Gate: Medieval Rood Screens from Norfolk

Heaven’s Gate was an exhibition about the role that painted rood screens played in the life of the laity in the Middle Ages. Usually commissioned by the community that frequented any given parish church, the rood screens of Norfolk help us to understand the power of medieval imagery; it inspired delight, devotion and, later, even destruction. The exhibition also showcases the outstanding craftsmanship of medieval painters and carpenters, whose works have survived for more than half a millennium. By combining photographs and some key paintings loaned from Norfolk churches, Heaven’s Gate will explore one of the most important means of religious communication before literacy became widespread.

Heaven's Gate was sponsored by Purcell

16th March - 15th July 2012
Journeys through the Light

This multi-media exhibition, focused on contemporary artists’ responses to the experience and qualities of light as it travels through medieval stained glass and the stories conveyed therein. The concept of light is explored through film, painting, photography, sculpture, textiles, print and installation.

Journeys through the Light featured works by:

Aidan Abernethy I Kate Anderson I Emi Avora I Susan Bowman I Linda Brassington I Lesley Davy I June Gentle I Stephanie Gilbert and Jo Scholfield I Gregory J Hayman I Lynne Merryland and Sophie Wood I Derek Morris I Joanna Reynolds I Joanna Rojkowska I Brenda Unwin I Phillip Walmsley I Judith Waring

In Memory of Lesley Davy (1953-2012)

We are saddened to announce the passing of artist and printmaker Lesley Davy. Davy was one of the artists featured in this year’s spring exhibition Journeys Through The Light, for which she created the installatation work Dante's Colour Lightbox.
We are greatly honoured to have shown one of her last works. Based in London, where she opened her own printmaking gallery in the East End, Lesley Davy was a prolific and versatile artist whose works are multi-disciplinary, involving printmaking, photography, sculpture and light projections, and often contain a dense narrative. Previous works include casts of sand ripples on the beach, a visible magnetic field on a large scale using ultraviolet pigment, and Urban Scan, a commission for a rotating light projection in the Economist Plaza, London.

A graduate of the University of East Anglia, where she received a BA in History of Art and Architecture in 1977, Davy went on to study Printmaking at Central St. Martin's, and subsequently pursued an MA in Art in Architecture at The University of East London and an MPhil in Printmaking Research at the Royal College of Art. She has exhibited widely in the UK and abroad and undertaken a number of public commissions.

April 2009 - November 2011
Stained Glass Exhibition
Curated by Claire Daunton (University of East Anglia) with photographs by Mike Dixon.

The beauty and complexity of medieval stained glass was the subject of Hungate Medieval Art’s first exhibition.

The exhibition reflected the distinctive Norwich school of medieval glass whilst looking at the development of stained glass over the period and the people and processes involved in its production. The display consisted of beautiful, back lit, photographic images of Norfolk glass. Seen up close and at eye level, the detail and craftsmanship of the work are apparent and the political subtext of certain panels can be more easily appreciated.

Learn more about this exhibition by listening to our curator podcast.