Are you an Artist? Do you want to exhibit your work?
Changing Spaces is a platform for people to become more than just a product of their surroundings. Rather than conforming to the predictable confines of a white cube gallery space, the Changing Spaces team endeavour to offer a unique platform for artists to become a part of their surroundings, and in doing so, interrogate the very streets we live in.
The premise is simple enough; there is an ever increasing number of vacant retail units appearing within the streets of Cambridge. The economic downturn has had a significant effect on the very infrastructure of the world that we live in and while slim opportunities exist to fix the fundamental flaws, Changing Spaces offers unique solace to the creative arts.
We welcome group work, individual displays; everything from installations, set designs, sculpture to photography. If you would like a platform to exhibit your work in the heart of Cambridge then please do take the time to fill out a simple application form.
To find out more, click on our step by step guide.
Changing Spaces hope to bridge the divide between the people of Cambridge and the city itself.
Every two weeks new local artists get the opportunity to display their work in one of the empty shop windows around the city centre. Take a look below to see what is on display and where!
New Windows in March:
Ines Coelho and Lisa Wilkens will install their piece 48min. in 71 Bridge Street tomorrow Saturday, 6th March at 2.30pm.
Private View on Monday, 8th March, 6.30 pm.
Imogen Freeland, photographer, is showing her series Asleep in Sunshine in 16 Magdalene Street.
Cambridge School of Art is showing 2 new window dispalys by Robert Good and CSA Students in their location Mr Shoes on the Market Square.
February Windows
Adam Kyne-Lilley’s site-specific installation What We Were Saying What We Were Thinking is now on in 7 All Saints Passage until 10th March. He will also be present for a joint private view with Jim Butler on Monday 1st March, 6pm.
Marine Barbaroux is a painter and software designer from France living in Cambridge. See her intense colour compositions in the Grafton Centre, Eden Hall, behind cafe carrington. Private View on Wed 10th March, 6.30pm
The Blight Society is a gallery organized and run by its artists representing a new generation of emerging Graffiti, Urban and Street art. Check out their window in the Grafton Centre, Eden Hall.
Alexandra Murphy, photographer, presents her series “spirits” which is inspired by the specimen collections at the Cambridge University Museum of Zoology and is part of a long-term visual exploration into Freud’s essay “The Uncanny”. 16 Magdalene Street from 17th Feb – 3rd March.
Jim Butler, printmaker and lecturer at Cambridge School of Art shows a series of large life drawings at 5 All Saints Passage from 17th Feb – 14th March. Private View on Monday, 1st March, 6pm – dress warmly, whiskey provided!
New installations of Cambridge School of Art and Independents in the Mr. Shoes unit at the Market Square. 11th – 22nd February.
Lee Smith is a poet living and working in Cambridge and Melbourne (Australia). His exhibition of poems and photographs is now up in 7 All Saints Passage.
He will have a private view on Monday 15th February, 5 – 8 pm with some wine and biscuits in front of the window.
The Classworks Theatre Company has opened its closet for Changing Spaces. Up until 17th Feb. in 5 All Saints Passage.
Photographs by Ania Ka & Andrew Zofka
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Jane Evans – painting with a chinese brush. Animals and landscapes in 16 Magdalene Street
Photographs by Ania Ka & Andrew Zofka
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Rowan Humberstone – creating art, improvine lives – has a display at the Grafton Centre, Eden Hall, behind Cafe Carrington.
MME Images Nature, Wildlife and Landscape Photography. Can be seen at one of our units in the Grafton Centre, Eden Hall, behind Cafe Carrington.
Hannah Jean Michalakis Installation is up until 10th Feb. in 7 All Saints Passage. It’s a Must See!
Photographs by Ania Ka & Andrew Zofka
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The Fine Arts Dept. of Anglia Ruskin University and Independents are having a new display at their permanent location, former Mr. Shoes on the market square.
Jo Miller & Erica Böhr – refraction / dada alchemy, launch event on Wed 3rd Feb at 5.30 in front of Mr Shoes and continuing at 6.15 to the Eagle Public House for refreshments.
January Windows
Josie Camus‘ large scale painting in 16 Magdalene Street.
Kyran Hunt – our youngst artist at the age of 12 – is exhibiting his photographs at the Grafton Centre, Eden Hall, behind Cafe Carrington.
Wayne McDermott had his Window up until 11th January at 16 Magdalene Street
Andrew Hatfield, Unit 58 behind Cafe Carrington, Eden Hall, Grafton Center.
December Windows
Amanda Lawson, Mr Shoes, Market Sq.
Jessica Dolby Window, Mr Shoes, Market Sq.
Suzanne Middlemass window, 16 Magdalene St.
