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Striking The Right Balance Alan Rider checks out The Lonely Arts Club’s latest exhibition at The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich

Striking The Right Balance

Alan Rider checks out The Lonely Arts Club’s latest exhibition at The Undercroft Gallery, Norwich

by Alan Rider, Contributing Editor
first published: August, 2024

approximate reading time: minutes

There is something to intrigue, delight, or perplex, wherever you look.

BalanceBALANCE
Contemporary Art Exhibition.
Undercroft Gallery, Norwich
7-24 August. 

The Lonely Arts Club is a collective of some 20+ independent artists in, and around, Norwich, who regularly put on innovative, interactive, and challenging exhibitions in unusual art spaces such as The Old Shoe Factory (guess where that is housed?) and The Undercroft Gallery, a fantastic, semi-industrial space hidden under the market, right in the heart of Norwich’s City Centre.

Their latest exhibition, ‘Balance’, showcases 10 of the club’s talented artists, from the macabre Victorian Gothic themed masks and cracked puppet shows of Roger Foyster, to David Cassell’s bizarre boat full of disembodied heads, entitled ‘Shipwrecked Souls’. Interactive elements include a spiral you can walk inside, depicting the horizon between sky and sea, an AV booth, and piles of empty plastic containers highlighting waste and pollution, painted with slogans such as “Somebody should do something about this - you are somebody”. Screen printed images in frames walk across the floor, there are light sculptures, and a curved wall filled with metal bars, and more.  There is something to intrigue, delight, or perplex, wherever you look. 

If you are in the area, it is well worth dropping in to see (its free!).  If not, there are always these pictures and those on Roger Foyster Facebook page here. You can follow them on social media too of course.

Art in Norwich

Triptych

Norwich art Skull and Fabric

Arrayed art

Boat of skulls


Essential Information:
All images: Alan Rider
‘Balance’ runs to the 24 August 11-5pm Wed-Sat at The Undercroft Gallery, adjacent to the Market, Norwich.
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Alan Rider
Contributing Editor

Alan Rider is a Norfolk based writer and electronic musician from Coventry, who splits his time between excavating his own musical past and feeding his growing band of hedgehogs, usually ending up combining the two. Alan also performs in Dark Electronic act Senestra and manages the indie label Adventures in Reality.


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