Sainsbury Centre

Sainsbury Centre

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✨ Where art is alive 💊 Now showing: #WhyDoWeTakeDrugs 📸 The Camera Never Lies 🎟️ Pay if and what you can #LivingArt

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Welcome to the Sainsbury Centre, an international art museum home to world-class art collections from contemporary to anthropological and archaeological themes. We also boast cafes, a shop and a 350-acre outdoor Sculpture Park. In 2023, we became the first museum in the world to recognise that art is alive. At the Sainsbury Centre, we invite you to meet art much more like you would another person than an inanimate object. Discover #LivingArt now! Our new Universal Ticket grants access to the permanent collection, lower and mezzanine galleries, and Sculpture Park. Tickets operate on a ‘Pay If and What You Can’ basis, and is the first model of its kind in the UK, offering access to the entire arts landscape for a price of your choosing.

Website
www.sainsburycentre.ac.uk
Industry
Museums
Company size
11-50 employees
Headquarters
NORWICH
Type
Nonprofit
Founded
1978

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    🍄 Get ready to be amazed by the magic of fungi! ✨ Join us for a special screening of Fantastic Fungi at Cinema City on 9 December followed by a panel discussion with experts, including: 🌎 Karina Aveyard, Associate Professor of Media, Arts and Humanities, UEA 🧪 A. Ganesan, Professor in Chemical Biology, UEA 🥼 Kay Yeoman, Professor of Science Communication, UEA 🖼️ Vanessa Tothill, Curator of Transhistorical Narratives, Sainsbury Centre Explore the fascinating world of fungi and their impact on our planet. 🎟️ Book your tickets now at: https://lnkd.in/gh4jd9K8

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    🌞 This piece is a prayer to the sun 🙏 This is 'Song to Tayaupa' (2022) by Huichol artist Gilberto González. In the lower part, the Father Sun leans its body over the ceremonial temple dedicated to its worship. To his right, there is a shaman holding his solar feathers, in yellow, white and orange. From his mouth comes a chant in the shape of a yellow-green snake. 🐍 Yarn paintings like this one can show us in a material way the chants of shamans and the visions of a world that can only be reached and recreated through rituals. Discover this work in our current show, Power Plants: Intoxicants, Stimulants and Narcotics, until 2 February 2025. https://lnkd.in/gzH6CR7U Courtesy of Arte Yawí Gallery, Mexico

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    The Sainsbury Centre is saddened to hear the news of Frank Auerbach’s death. The artist’s portrait of his older cousin, Head of Gerda Boehm, is testimony to his astonishing technique, with its thickly worked impasto. Boehm was one of Auerbach’s principle subjects, sitting for him for over twenty years. The work is one of the most remarkable paintings in the Sainsbury Centre’s collection. 🖼️ 'Head of Gerda Boehm', Frank Auerbach, 1964.

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    #OnThisDay in 1880, Jacob Epstein was born! 🎉 Epstein's groundbreaking work challenged traditional notions of beauty and form.   Our collection boasts his earliest known sculpture, 'Baby Asleep,' acquired by the visionary collectors Robert and Lisa Sainsbury. This serene work, modelled from life, reflects Epstein's fascination with the human form and his commitment to direct carving (carving without using a model first). Epstein's friendship with the Sainsburys and other artists like Henry Moore, Picasso and Modigliani shaped the course of modern sculpture. His influence can still be seen today, inspiring generations of artists. #JacobEpstein #Sculpture #ArtHistory #ModernArt #SainsburyCentre

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    📷 COMING SOON: Heroin Falls (23 November 2024 - 27 April 2025) Heroin Falls highlights the realities of heroin addiction through the eyes of two incredible photographers: Lindokuhle Sobekwa and Graham MacIndoe. Magnum photographer, Sobekwa aims his lens at a group of young men from Thokoza, South Africa, who have turned to using nyaope, a low-grade form of heroin. Scottish-born, New York-based photographer, MacIndoe took a very different approach: he photographed himself during the years he was addicted to heroin, documenting the harsh realities of drug addiction and his use of photography as a tool for his own recovery. The exhibition aims to show connections which will lead viewers to acknowledge substance misuse is a global challenge that transcends race, location and class. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/dWMJBAvu 🏷️ #SainsburyCentre #WhyDoWeTakeDrugs #LivingArtSharingStories #LindokuhleSobekwa #GrahamMacIndoe 🖼️ Image credits Lindokuhle Sobekwa, Thabang waking up in the early hours of the morning, 2015, from the Nyaope. Copyright: Lindokuhle Sobekwa / Magnum Photos Graham MacIndoe, My Addiction. Copyright: Graham MacIndoe

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    🖼️ Want to do your work experience at the Sainsbury Centre? 🏛️ Each year, we welcome four students in years 10 and 11 to come and spend a week discovering more about different roles in an art museum. You will work in a variety of teams across the Sainsbury Centre and support gallery staff in a range of tasks, as well as taking part in your own project whilst gaining experience and skills for your CV. To apply or to discover other opportunities for young people at the Sainsbury Centre, visit https://lnkd.in/eRSXGXph

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    #OnThisDay in 1906, Sir Robert Sainsbury was born. The founder of the Sainsbury Centre alongside his wife Lady Lisa Sainsbury, Robert was a committed patron of the arts and had radical ideas that would lead to the conception of Norman Foster's Sainsbury Centre in 1978. He was an early supporter of artists like Henry Moore, Francis Bacon and Pablo Picasso, and collected works from different periods and cultures around the world. In 1973, Robert and Lisa's incredible, non-conformist collection was donated to the University of East Anglia. The Sainsburys also funded new departments specialising in non-Western arts, including The Sainsbury Research Unit, founded in 1988 and Sainsbury Institute (SISJAC) in 1999. Robert Sainsbury believed in the power of art to connect people across time and space, and this ambition is one that we carry forward today through our approach of Living Art. Find out more about Living Art at https://lnkd.in/e7Evzn9p #RobertSainsbury #SainsburyCentre #SainsburyResearchUnit #SISJAC

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    Used in baths or blown on people's bodies, industrial perfumes are central to Peruvian shamanism. They are a specialist subject for healers (perfumeros), who use them for therapeutic, protective and purification purposes, or as part of love magic (pusanga). Agua de Florida (Florida water) is the most famous, created in 1808 by New York perfumer Robert Murray and rising to commercial success in Latin America and becoming gradually incorporated into the practices of the Peruvian Amazon's healers. Experience these stunning perfumes at our current exhibition, Ayahuasca & Art of the Amazon, until 2 February 2025. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/exn9sUYi Photo by Kate Wolstenholme #SainsburyCentre #LivingArtSharingStories #Ayahuasca #Drugs #BigQuestions #Museum #Exhibition #Norwich #ExploreArt

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    🌎 Can museums help us travel the world? Kate Wolstenholme, our brilliant PR and Media officer, tells how the treasure troves we call museums can help us explore the globe and expand our minds in this month's Art Talks Back. In the @Eastern Daily Press article, Kate says that through the Sainsbury Centre's art and objects, "you can travel to places like Africa, South America or Japan and even hear from people within those cultures." "You may just leave with broadened horizons and new perspectives." Read the full article now at: https://lnkd.in/enKh2TWB #SainsburyCentre #LivingArtSharingStories #Norwich #ArtMuseum #Museum

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    Check out the incredible work of Sethembile Msezane in our current exhibition, Power Plants: Intoxicants, Stimulants and Narcotics Created at the Sainsbury Centre during the Covid epidemic, this work, 'Nibizwa Ngabangcwele' comments on the disruption of supply routes and restrictions placed on the import of snuff (not regarded as essential goods by the South African government). Msezane argues that the use of snuff to communicate with ancestors and spirits makes snuff essential to the Indigenous traditions of South Africans. See the show now until 2 February 2025. Find out more at https://lnkd.in/eBnd6H8p Artwork: Sethembile Msezane, 'Nibizwa Ngabangcwele', 2021. Image by Kate Wolstenholme #SainsburyCentre #WhyDoWeTakeDrugs #SethembileMsezane #ArtinNorwich #VisitNorwich #NorwichArt #Museum #Exhibition

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