Nicholson Gallery
The Nicholson Gallery showcases a wide range of art for the benefit of both our pupils and the wider North Norfolk community. We host a busy programme of exhibitions during term time, featuring both professional and student artists, often placing particular emphasis on local or emerging artists.
Housed within our Art Department in the purpose-built Cairns Centre, the large exhibition space is spread across two floors, allowing for professional and spacious displays.
Exhibitors often spend time discussing their work with our pupils, enriching the quality and breadth of our Arts programme.
During Term Time, the Gallery is open 10am - 4pm, Monday through Saturday.
For information on exhibitions and events please contact Charley Openshaw, our Head of Art, at
copenshaw@greshams.com.
To view Art work by some of the pupils at the Senior School, please click on the
Gallery link and scroll down to the Art section.
Upcoming exhibitions
Kim Davison: Expressionism
4th- 17th November
Private View: Friday 4th November 6-8pm
I produce from my studio an ever-evolving genre wherein the figurative, the human form, is a central theme. Capturing a movement, a moment, in the endless flow of life is love, my love. That life has flowed from time immemorial, without repeat, each unique motion of each individual an act of love - conscious or sub-conscious, knowing or unknowing, intended or accidental. Who are we - except to move, and to be, and to love? Depicting life - and, so love in its endless magical mystical variety must continue to be one of the cornerstones of art. Life and love are inextricably intertwined, and arguably identical in the final analysis.
Human form and movement are too rich and to diverse to ever be captured in their wholeness. My work is humbly, a step in that direction, an inevitable journey along my life's path, a joyful celebration of the love that surrounds us - but only rarely perceive.
For more information see http://modernmastersartbook.com/2011/04/22/kim-davison/
Final Chord, Kim Davison
Drawing from Life
25th November - 8th December
Private view: Friday 25th November 6-8 p.m.
The life drawing group was started about 7 years ago by Vanessa and Andy Vargo and Polly Leithead in Gresham village. They had seen Dorcas Henderson model for classes at Gresham's school and were extremely impressed by her professionalism and asked her to sit for their small group. As time has gone on, more like minded people have joined and 12 artists will be exhibiting their work at the Nicholson gallery. The group meets weekly, always using the same model and works without any tuition.
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Gary S Holt : Everything in its Right Place
20th January – 9th February
Private View: Friday 20th January 6-8pm
Gary works from a small studio in Weybourne producing limited edition screenprints, collages and 3 dimensional pieces. His work is concerned with the selection and arrangement of object within a space and is guided by material, colour, shape and pattern. This exhibition will bring together work produced over the last 2 years and will be Gary’s first solo show.
Rachel Hannyngton: Unfoldings
Friday 24 February to Thursday 8 March
Private View: Friday 24 February 6-8pm
Rachel Hannyngton has been working as a portrait artist for many years, working solely to commission and exhibiting rarely. Here, in her first solo show, she reveals a distinctly different body of work, exploring new territory.
The view from the upstairs window, the artist’s own face, old photographs - all are subject to scrutiny as she explores the internal and external landscape of things familiar and personal.
Working in layers, fragments, erasures and hesitancies, she constantly questions and alters the image, searching for the ‘shimmer’, the fugitive moment, the catch of the breath, when the picture begins to tell its own story.
“In the minutiae lie often the unfoldings of the story, as well as of the heart.” Samuel Richardson, 1754
