Norfolk Open Studios 2009

16 – 31 May 2009

Norfolk Open Studios is delivered by Norfolk & Norwich Festival in partnership with Norfolk artists for the benefit of Norfolk artists, offering to help and support them in opening up their studios, meeting their public and selling works of art.

Now in its fifteenth year, Norfolk Open Studios has established itself as one of the largest and most successful open studio schemes in the country. Norfolk Open Studios provides the opportunity for artists across the county to show and sell their work to a curious and enthusiastic audience, primarily in their own studios, thereby maintaining and broadening the audience for local visual arts work. It also creates a focus for local artists and audiences to meet, spark interest and nurture enthusiasm for their work.

During Norfolk Open Studios 2008, over 26,000 members of the public roamed the county to visit 254 participating artists in their studios and a total of £224,000 worth of art was sold.

In 2009, the Norfolk Open Studios will run from Saturday 16 – Sunday 31 May. Norfolk Open Studios welcomes applications from individual artists, gallery entries and collective artist groups. Costs start at £84 (inc. VAT) to register in the scheme. For this fee, artists have a listing and image in the Open Studios brochure, other promotional material and advice about how to encourage people to attend, the opportunity to take part in a taster exhibition and the opportunity to engage with other artists in the region as well as the art buying public. A Central Taster Exhibition at the Forum in Norwich will take place from 28 April – 2 May 2009

The application process for Norfolk Open Studios 2009 is now open.

To download an application pack click here.

To request an application pack please call 01603 877757 or email Joanna@nnfestival.org.uk