Main Gallery
Garry Hobbs - A Solo Exhibition
10th to 22nd February
Private View: Saturday 14th February 5-7pm
Garry Hobbs’s work begins with an image—an encounter with a person, a place, or a fleeting moment that captures his attention. From this starting point, he builds layers of meaning, allowing stories to surface and memories and emotions to emerge, like fragments of a song or overheard conversations that linger long after they have passed. He is drawn to the psychological intrigue and emotional honesty found in the work of artists such as Francis Bacon, Lucian Freud, Stanley Spencer, Paula Rego, Peter Blake, Peter Howson, and Grayson Perry, alongside photographers Martin Parr and Richard Heeps. Their work inspires Garry through its ability to balance the intimate and the unsettling, the familiar and the strange—qualities he seeks to explore within his own practice. Garry is constantly seeking images, collecting fragments like a magpie. The disorder of contemporary life—its collisions, repetitions, and uneasy connections—feeds into his work, producing moments that hover between the surreal and the recognisable. Music underpins the artist's painting process; he always works with music playing. Fragments of lyrics, tone, and rhythm help shape the work, influencing mood rather than meaning. He is drawn to musicians whose lyrics are romantic, profound, or witty, with enduring favourites including Guy Garvey, Richard Hawley, Paul Weller, Bob Dylan, John Lennon, and Pete Townshend. Current themes in Garry's work centre on the figure in space—set within landscapes, caught in light, and exposed to colour, shadow, and glare. His practice continues to draw on past masters, allowing traces of allegory, tale, and myth to surface without becoming fixed. Exhibitions (Joint and Solo) There and Back Again, Hanse House, King’s Lynn, 2025 Transforming the Ordinary, Anteros Arts, Norwich, 2025 Cromer Open, 2025 Memories and Imaginings, Hanse House, King’s Lynn, 2023 Couples, West Acre Gallery, 2022
Front Room Gallery
Norfolk Wildlife Trust - 2025 Nature Photography Competition
17th to 22nd February
Private View: 19th February 5-7pm
This exhibition showcases the winning and highly commended photos from our 2025 Nature Photography Competition, which saw over 1,100 photos showcasing Norfolk’s landscapes, wildlife and plants submitted. Taking on the task of narrowing down the entries was our panel of judges: photographers Megan James, Fiona Burrage and Jimmy King; graphic designer Hannah Moulton; and NWT Youth Forum member Josh Pepper. The top photos feature in our 2026 calendar, available to purchase from our visitor centres, with the highly commended photos also featuring in this exhibition. Our judges chose photos they thought best showed the beauty of Norfolk’s nature through the eyes of the people that love it. This year’s Overall Winner, Alan Dixon’s fox cubs, perfectly captured the characters of the cubs playing on a warm spring evening. The judges saw many impressive images by young photographers, with their favourite, 22-year-old Nathan Allen’s fox, winning them over with its skillful capturing of the fox’s inquisitiveness. This year we introduced a Mobile Phone Photography category, with winner Lori Coral captivating the judges with her photo of startled pigeons taking flight above Norwich Market – capturing a moment familiar to anyone walking through city! With thanks to world-leading optics manufacturer ZEISS for their sponsorship of our competition, along with brilliant local companies Lisa Angel, SOP, and WILD Sounds & Books. We hope this exhibition highlights the amazing range of wildlife, habitats and talented people to be found across our county, as well as inspiring you to get creative and have a go at wildlife photography yourself!
Main Gallery
Under the Skin - An Exhibition to celebrate Queerfest
24th February to 1st March
Open View: 26th February 6-8pm including poetry readings
Under the Skin celebrates four years of queer artistic practice shaped by the Queerfest community. The exhibition brings together artists whose work has challenged, connected, and energized the community, exploring what it means for queer art to be felt—emotionally, politically, and bodily. Featuring photography and works generated through Queerfest’s programme of workshops, the exhibition reminds audiences that queer creativity does not exist only on the surface. It lingers and resonates, holding the LGBTQ+ community at its core to validate and affirm queer identities. Always.
Main Gallery
Anteros Studioholder Exhibition
3rd to 15th March
Open View: 7th February 5-7pm
This exhibition brings together the work of the studio holders of Anteros Arts Foundation, celebrating the breadth, depth, and vitality of our creative community. Spanning a wide range of subjects, materials, and approaches, the exhibition reflects the diversity of practices that coexist within the building.
Main Gallery
Movies, Microscapes and Mathmatical Curves by Jennie Pedley
17th to 22nd March
Open View: 19th March 5-7pm
This exhibition brings together work by Jennie Pedley and her late father, Peter Pedley. Artist Jennie Pedley shares her late father’s ‘mathematical curve’ sculptures, alongside her own commissioned works, which explore a wide variety of subjects. The exhibition includes ‘mini’ movies and landscapes, inspired by the history of marine biology, exercise, microscopy, and wind energy, as well as research on human and environmental health. Silhouette footage of Jennie’s parents features in her film ‘a is for ageing’, alongside imagery of scientists from the Institute of Ageing and Health, Newcastle upon Tyne. Jennie’s mini shadow theatre kits, formerly sold at Tate Britain and the National Portrait Gallery, can be purchased at this exhibition and can be used to make mini animations at home. About Jennie and Peter: Jennie makes short films, drawings, and installations with museums, scientific research institutions, and the public. Until 2020, Jennie also worked part-time as an NHS physiotherapist. Returning to Norfolk after thirty years in London, Jennie became artist in residence at the Quadram Institute, exploring research on the gut microbiome. In 2022 Jennie set up Edible East, to combine art, science and horticulture for a more healthy, sustainable future through workshops, exhibitions and community growing. In 2025 Edible East developed ‘Through the Microscope – secrets of Norfolk’s changing landscape’ at Gressenhall Farm and Workhouse Museum, with the John Innes Centre. Images from this project are on display at the Museum of Norwich. Peter was born in Yorkshire, moving to the Fens in his teens so his family could start a market garden and develop commercial compost with Arthur Bower. Peter studied zoology in Sheffield and then agriculture in Cambridge. He worked with pigs before starting to build the earliest computer systems and managing them for an animal feed company and then for Rowntree Macintosh. Peter and his wife, Jackie Hodder, settled in South Norfolk, raising three children. Peter made his plaster sculptures in the family kitchen during the 1970s and 80s. Later he took up portraiture and life drawing at Wensum Lodge. He died in 2016 at the age of 86. @edibleeast www.edibleeast.org.uk www.robpedley.co.uk
Front Room Gallery
Reflections of Life by Simon Hiscox
24th to 29th March
Open View: 26th March 5-7pm
This is the first solo exhibition by the artist Simon Hiscox. He is pleased to be showing this new collection of 8 paintings at Anteros Arts Foundation. The inspiration comes from his fascination with the human form and the inexhaustive shapes and shadows that our bodies can create. About the artist: As a child, Simon was severely affected by asthma, resulting in long periods spent in hospital. When at home, he was often unable to attend school. During these times, he would paint or draw. He has always been a keen observer of people, and this interest developed into a lasting fascination with painting the human figure. He now works primarily in oils on canvas, a medium that allows for rich colour blending in a multitude of ways. His latest paintings reflect his continuing fascination with the human form. The shapes and shadows that emerge within it hold great allure for him as an artist. Please contact him if you would like to learn more about his work or enquire about a commission.