Curators’ Choice - Cuckoo Farm Studios welcome Colchester Art Society for an exhibition of 45 works selected by Chair of Cuckoo Farm Studios, Linda Theophilus & Director of The Minories, Emma Howe.

Open to the public Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays between 11am - 4pm. 29th March to 14th April 2024.

Alternatively please make an appointment, details enclosed…

As the festive season begins Cuckoo Farm Studios is proud to host our pre-Christmas selling exhibition.

Works by 30 CFS members ranging from ceramics, drawings, glass, jewellery, paintings, prints, sculpture, textiles and wood.

Join us on Saturday 4th November between 12 - 3pm for the grand opening.

The Great Cornard Portrait Group are holding a week long exhibition in the Benham Gallery at CFS.

Open Wednesday 18th to Tuesday 24th October 2023.

Hours include:

18th 11am - 5pm

19th & 20th 11am - 3pm

21st & 22nd 11am - 5pm

23rd & 24th 11am - 3pm

Works inspired by the foundational stories that shape beliefs and cultures from around the world.

Curated by Studio Holder David Smith and Print Workshop Chair David Stone.

You and your guests are warmly invited to celebrate the opening of MYTHS AND LEGENDS on Sunday 24th September 2023 between 12noon - 2pm.

Exhibition runs from: Saturday 23rd September until Sunday 15th October 2023.

Open: between 11am – 4pm Saturdays and Sundays

Wednesday afternoons: between 2 - 5pm

This year we are extending part of our annual Open Studio event to include this exhibition giving CFS members the chance to display their larger works not easily or practically displayable during Open Studios.

Open Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm.

Each September, Artists at Cuckoo Farm Studios open their workspaces to the public for one weekend. It is the biggest event of our year, welcoming over 500 visitors. With lots to see and do it's a complete day out for the family.

As well as 30 Tenants (Studio Holders), Cuckoo Farm Studios Print Workshop will demonstrate different print techniques and the Benham Gallery will host an exhibition of work by our Associate Members.

NATURE TAMED AND UNBOUND is an exhibition by CFS Honorary Associate members Simon Carter, Jane Frederick and Jevan Watkins-Jones.

Open every Saturday and Sunday 11am - 4pm.

And Wednesdays 5-7pm.

20 artists show the different uses and approaches to drawing produced recently at Cuckoo Farm Studios - from experimental trials made in day workshops, through preparations and designs for other work, to finished drawings, and drawing in combination with other media (painting, printmaking, or in 3-D).

BEYOND SURFACE:: Terry Flower - Bookworks and photography.

PV 2:30pm Saturday 24th June 2023.

Thereafter: 11am - 4pm Saturdays & Sundays 24/25 June, 1-2 July, 8-9 July.

Part of Essex Book Festival.

Curated by CFS Studio Holder Iris Gunnarsdottir.

Works using locally sourced reclaimed materials showing how art can be made in an environmentally friendly manner.

Part of Essex Book Festival.

An outdoor exhibition of works living only temporarily in space.

Curated by Studio Holder Rebecca Jordan.

Open Saturdays and Sunday between 11am - 4pm.

And Wednesdays between 2 - 5pm.

DRAWING FROM THE BODY - Lucy Gayler

Colchester Art Society / Cuckoo Farm Studios Graduate Award recipient 2021/22, Lucy used her studio space at CFS as a means of re-connecting with her passion for drawing, performance and time-based making practices, after primarily focusing on sculptural forms during her BA in Fine Art at University Centre Colchester.

During the first week of May 2023, Lucy used the Benham Gallery to make large scale drawings that delve into this investigation further, acquiring new means of extracting bodily traces and forms.

This exhibition includes new drawings along side work made during her year as the Graduate Award Holder.

Cuckoo Farm Studios is delighted to be hosting the Spring Exhibition 2023 by the Colchester Art Society. The show will comprise of around 60 2D & 3D works by CAS members in our Benham Gallery.

This exhibition will show work created by pairs of Cuckoo Farm Studios Artists/Studio Holders, these conversations include:

Lupe Cunha (painter) and Jean Muir (glass).

Sheena Clover (painter) and Maggie Leggoe (textiles).

Colin Brown (bookbinding) and Kay Philips (textiles).

Pam Schomberg (ceramics) and David Smith (painter).

Artists in the show have been selected by Lavina Doluner (YAC Firstsite).

SHADOWS is a group exhibition with work by Iris Gunnarsdottir, Clare Iles, Hanne Mannheimer, Janette Lazell, Dennis Coote and Lisa Temple Cox.

Selected and curated by YAC and Firstsite member Roseanne Chew.

For one weekend every September Cuckoo Farm Studios opens to the public, the biggest event in our calander attracting over 500 visitors. 

The 'Open Studios' event once again coincides with the 'Heritage Open Days'.

Open Saturday 10th and Sunday 11th September between 11am and 5pm.

DURATION - a programme of time-based work by Stuart Bowditch, Judd Druce, Lucy Gayler, Iris Dina Gunnarsdottir, Peter Jones and Chris Meigh-Andrews.

Opening: Friday 26th August between 6 - 8pm.

Continuing: Saturday & Sunday 27th & 28th August 2022 between 11am - 4pm.