Art at the ARB

New exhibition coming soon! Shape Shifters - and exhibition by Cristina Ghetti, Ima Picó, Silvia Lerín, Lada Wilson and Sam Owen Hull 20 April - 26 June 2026 Opening reception 23 April 5-7pm - all welcome! Open 9am-7pm on weekdays Alison Richard Building, 7 West Road, CB3 9DP ⬆️ Find our more via the link in our bio In this exhibition, abstraction is expressed in a female form – not from a biological or essentialist perspective, but as a plurality of voices that take the abstract to new depths. Five artists, five responsive geographies, interweave their work in a common fabric in which the geometric, the material, the visual, and the earthly come together to demonstrate that abstraction is not a genre closed off in the 20th century avant-garde, but is still a fertile territory, capable of continuing to challenge the viewer and their perceptions. . . . @hoart_cambridge @cambridge.artworks @camcreatives @cambridgeindependent @cambridge_school_of_art @camunivmuseums @cavendish_artscience @incollusion @cdh.cambridge @camvisculture @womensartcollection @wysing.arts.centre

📣 Call for art Artists and creatives are invited to submit works to CRASSH's 25th anniversary exhibition, which takes place from 5 October – 11 December 2026 at the Alison Richard Building, CB3 9DP. The theme of the anniversary programme and exhibition is 'Knowledge in a Fractured World'. The programme will examine how knowledge is produced, contested, and translated into action amid political polarisation, technological disruption, environmental crisis, and shifting global power relations. For the exhibition, the theme can be interpreted in the widest sense – from personal to global. Deadline for submissions 31 July 2026 Find out more via the link in our bio or at bit.ly/4svggKv . . . @hoart_cambridge @thecambridgeroom @cambridge_school_of_art @cavendish_artscience @incollusion @cdh.cambridge @filmscreencambridge @heong_gallery @camvisculture @womensartcollection @camcreatives @cambridge.artworks @wysing.arts.centre

A whole 20 minutes of me talking... ☺️ Aaron Syposz interviewed me about the Shutter Hub OPEN for Cam FM, and I know it’s odd to say, but I really enjoyed listening back to it! I like what I said, I liked hearing myself saying those things, no pauses, no fluff, just me talking about the work I do and why it matters to me. 💪❤️ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’d love you to listen too, I’ve added the link to the recording, now on their podcast Cam FM Trending, in my bio. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ There are only a couple of weeks left of the exhibition, and if you’ve not seen it, now’s the time! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Come to my talk on the 26th March, Vote for your Best in Show, check out the Pop-Up Photobook Library, and see the work of 120 international photographers taking over four floors of the ARB at Cambridge University! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @artatthearb @crassh @shutter_hub @cambridgeuniversity @camunifestivals @camfm972 @aaronsyposz @harveyhotdog #camfest #camfm #shutterhub #shutterhubOPEN #SHOPEN2026

*EVENT NOW FULLY BOOKED!* Join us for a tour of the @shutter_hub OPEN 2026 exhibition with curator Karen Harvey MBE (@harveyhotdog ) at @artatarb @cambridgeuniversity on 26 March!⁠ ⁠ Karen will share insights into the curatorial process, discussing how works were selected and how scale, sequence, and context influence how we experience images. There’ll be time for questions and conversation throughout and you'll also have the chance to explore the Shutter Hub Pop-Up Photobook Library! ⁠ ⁠ RSVP via the link in our bio, @shutter_hub

I’ve curated the work of over 100 international photographers in a new Shutter Hub exhibition at Cambridge University. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Please join us on Saturday 24 January at the Alison Richard Building for the Private View, and the launch of our new Pop-Up Photobook Library too! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ You’d be very welcome! I’d love to see you there! 🥰 ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Save the date for the Curators Talk and Tour, as part of @camunifestivals on 26 March 2026. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And don’t forget to vote for your Best in Show! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ And, and, another bonus, the Top 100 @autophotoawards exhibition will be on the screens throughout the exhibition! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Thank you @newspaperclub for the excellent printing and @judithweikartist @artatarb for the space and the wonderful opportunity. It’s our favourite place to show work, and we are always glad to be back! ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ @shutter_hub #shutterhubopen #newspaperclub #artatthearb #cambridgefestival #cambridgeuniversity

December comes, and the exhibition Family Matters: Holding You Up enters its last weeks. It offers opportunities to think imaginatively about family, before the holiday season brings these layers of presence and absence to fuller focus. There is a breadth of experiences held here which may resonate for you. Here are a few details to encourage you to @artatarb : 1&2 @judithweikartist details from Being Useful, and Mother, part of her sensitive, eloquent series on family relationships. 3 Still from @animatedtales inventive and moving animation, "Tim Grim", which explores the effects of the sudden death of Tony’s older brother on the family. 4. Installation shot of Judith’s work with another of Tony’s films, “Norton Grim”. 5&6 @_annabelfraser “On the Edge”. Think, handwoven textile is stretched between the jaws of a mandolin, reflecting in a very embodied way on some of the tensions of mothering. 7. John Clark‘s paintings, Did you Remember the Milk? (right) and What You Think You Know (left) give formal structure to contemplate apparently banal moments. 8. Detail from Jonny Aldous’s “Being Productive”, an evolving drawing of an espalier fruit tree, pruned to be as useful as possible, raises questions about discipline and freedom in families and working parents. 9&10 Installation shots of my miniatures, Unsupported Platform (left), on facing death, and Must be Talking to an Angel (right) on thresholds in adolescence and manhood The exhibition at Alison Richards Building, 7 West Road, Cambridge is open weekdays 9am-7pm until 17 December. To visit at a weekend, please DM me to arrange. Artists: @judithweikartist @we.like.it_wild @leadwhite1 @tanyakaprielian @shamsquratulain @vaishaliprazmari @patrikprazmari Kashi Prazmari, Caspian Prazmari, @corrinaeastwood Andrew James, Jonny Aldous, @cliolloydjacob @sanscottart @nooralichagani @_annabelfraser @animatedtales @mujtaba__asif #artexhibition #adolescence #motherhood #contemporaryart #familyrelationships

A few details from the current @artatarb exhibition 'Family Matters: Holding you up'. 18 artists’ photographs, paintings, performances, films, sculptures, toys and drawings offer imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family. Works address childhood experiences, parental strain and persistence, the impacts of social position and migration, how skills and challenges are transmitted across generations, and experiences of family for those who do not have children themselves. Don't miss this exhibition which has been beautifully curated by Clio Lloyd-Jacob, and make sure you visit all four floors! The exhibition runs until 17 December at the Alison Richard Building, Cambridge, CB3 9DP and is open from 9am-7pm on weekdays. You can find out more about the exhibition and participating artists via the link in our bio.

Celebrating the complexity of families... Works from the ongoing exhibition, Family Matters:Holding You Up @artatarb The Prazmari family have collaborated on the work in the first four images. @vaishaliprazmari has created a model theatre set in collaboration with @pollockstoymuseum which is available to buy and decorate. This one she kindly prepared for our exhibition, and her son Kashi cut and coloured the characters. @patrikprazmari worked with their older son, Caspian, on the Maori inspired bone necklace and the small dagger and sheath, also carved in bone. Images 5-7 are Gub by @corrinaeastwood , from her new series "The Scrying Game" which reworks memories of her grandmother's professional crystal ball. She has inserted fragments of her own childhood drawings, including a self portrait, sent in letters to her father in prison. The octagonal stand is made of layers of floor and wall coverings from their family home, and the silver plate holder is inscribed with her father's prison number, as well as the title, which curse or spell. The work reflects on the entwined influences of place and time. 8-10 are my own response, using leftover pipework from the @british_ceramics_biennial work I made with @nooralichagani . I considered them as conduits both connecting generations and distinguishing them. I enjoyed the defined space of the boxed plinth top to explore both connection and separation. 11 is a detail from #JonnyAldous beautiful drawing " Being Productive" ( see earlier post for more on that) 12&13 are Andrew James's ethereal wood block prints of a domestic familiar. 14 is @leadwhite1 The Modernist ( more to come on that) 15 is an installation shot showing @sanscottart Black Home with @_annabelfraser On the Edge ( more to come) 16 detail from Black Home, made from embroidered tissue paper 17 Slipping Away by @nooralichagani It is a huge privilege to have curated this. Many thanks to @judithweikartist for the invitation #imagesoffamily #familymatters #artexhibition #cambridheartexhibition #woodblockprint #ceramicsculpture #curation #collaboration #familywork #artistparents

🍷 One week to go! We are looking forward to the Exhibition Opening of 'Family Matters: Holding you up' next Thursday 16 October, from 6.30-8.30pm. Join us for drinks, perfomances, and a look around the exhibition by 18 artists! The exhibition runs until 17 December and is open weekdays from 9am-7pm. Make sure you visit all four floors, which are accessible via stairs and a lift. Curated by Clio Lloyd-Jacob, the works in the show offer imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family. Works address childhood experiences, parental strain and persistence, the impacts of social position and migration, how skills and challenges are transmitted across generations, and experiences of family for those who do not have children themselves. Jonny Aldous, Mujtaba Asif, Noor Ali Chagani, John Clark, Corrina Eastwood, Annabel Fraser, Tony Gammidge, Andrew James, Carly Juneau, Tanya Kaprielian, Clio Lloyd-Jacob, Caspian Prazmari, Kashi Prazmari, Patrik Prazmari, Vaishali Prazmari, Sandra Scott, Quratulain Shams and Judith Weik Find out more at

I look forward to hanging the second iteration of Family Matters:Holding you Up @artatarb . The show (opening 16 October) will celebrate the powerful energies at play in the growth of parents, children, and their extended worlds across time and generations. A broader range of artists’ work shifts the focus towards the social contexts in which we develop. John Clark @leadwhite1 will be sharing these poignant pieces. He writes : “There is a territory between the epic and the domestic that we all inhabit. It is the place where the breathless sweep of our imaginings mingles with the invisible routines of daily life, where the grand butts up against the humble and the general is embarrassed by the particular. It is a much-visited territory and it is the one from which John’s work, which is as likely to reach for grand narrative as it is to simply notice the people he lives with, emerges. And so it goes for the works in this show. Some grew out of the experience of lockdown, others from a reflection on the consequences of modernism.” Participating artists: #jonnyaldous @mujtaba__asif @nooralichagani @leadwhite1 @corrinaeastwood @_annabelfraser @animatedtales #andrewjames @we.like.it_wild @tanyakaprielian @cliolloydjacob @vaishaliprazmari @patrikprazmari Caspian and Kashi Prazmari, @sanscottart @shamsquratulain and @judithweikartist Curator: @cliolloydjacob The poster image in tissue and thread is by Sandra Scott, "Black Home" in which "...lives are held together sometimes by a string." #home #whatmakesahome #blackhome #wallhanging #contemporaryart #exhibition #cambridgeexhibition #family#familymatters #groupexhibition #domestic

Advance notice...mark your calendars! Please join us on 16th October 6:30-8:30 pm for the opening and performances, or thereafter, to see Family Matters: Holding You Up. The exhibition @artatarb celebrates the powerful energies at play in the growth of parents, children, and their extended worlds. 18 artists’ photographs, paintings, performances, films, sculptures, toys and drawings offer us imaginative and playful ways to consider the impacts of family. Works address childhood experiences, parental strain and persistence, the impacts of social position and migration, how skills and challenges are transmitted across generations, and experiences of family for those who do not have children themselves. This second iteration of Family Matters has evolved from a small show @cambridge.artworks in March 2025. Now exploring family networks more broadly, artist partners, close friends and children are also participating. Their contributions shift the focus towards the social contexts in which we develop, and our creative responses to them. Participating artists: #jonnyaldous @mujtaba__asif @nooralichagani @leadwhite1 @corrinaeastwood @_annabelfraser @animatedtales #andrewjames @we.like.it_wild @tanyakaprielian @cliolloydjacob @vaishaliprazmari @patrikprazmari Caspian and Kashi Prazmari, @sanscottart @shamsquratulain and @judithweikartist Curator: @cliolloydjacob The poster image comes from this beautiful recent work in tissue and thread by Sandra Scott, "Black Home" in which "...lives are held together sometimes by a string." #home #whatmakesahome #blackhome #wallhanging #contemporaryart #exhibition #cambridgeexhibition #family #familymatters #groupexhibition

Hurry! You only have a few more days to visit Kirsten Lavers' beautiful exhibition 'Admitting the Possibilities of Error' which closes on Friday 29 August. Each of Kirsten's drawing has emerged from a meditative process that begins with the perimeter line of a perfect circle, evolving thereafter from repeated attempts to perfectly copy the preceding line. Small mistakes accumulate, creating images reminiscent of fingerprints or tree rings. Over 15 years this simple approach has grown from doodling into an in depth engagement with a range of experiences and issues creating possibilities for conversations around our desire for perfection and discomfort with fallibility. The Alison Richard Building is open to the public from 9am - 5pm, and the exhibition extends over all four floors.