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Time Spent in SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling

• 4 July 2024 6.00pm - 7.30pm
• Norwich Castle Museum & Art Gallery
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This is a free event! Please email RSVP.museums@norfolk.gov.uk to reserve your place.

Join Amanda Geitner in conversation with Dr Rosy Gray for an exclusive insight to the making of the current exhibition SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling.

SUNLIGHT is the first survey of British artist Roger Ackling (1947-2014) and the most significant exhibition of his work to date. Reappraising Ackling’s practice 10 years after his death, SUNLIGHT is an unprecedented examination of one of the most quietly influential artists of the late 20^th century.

For 50 years, Ackling consistently made objects by burning wood - focussing sunlight through the lens of a hand-held magnifying glass to scorch repeated patterns of lines on the surface. Collecting driftwood from the beach at Weybourne near his home on the Norfolk coast, as well as reclaimed broken and discarded materials, Ackling took little from the world to make his work and left nothing beyond a wisp of smoke in the air.

The exhibition forms the practice outcome of Amanda's current PhD at Norwich University of the Arts and University Arts London, and traces the significance of Ackling's work and teaching to Norwich and Norfolk.

This is a free event! Please email RSVP.museums@norfolk.gov.uk to reserve your place.

SUNLIGHT is realised with the critical support of key funders, to whom we are immensely grateful: Norfolk Museums Service, Arts Council England, the National Lottery Heritage Fund, Norwich City Council, Norfolk County Council, East Anglia Art Fund, Henry Moore Foundation, Norwich University of the Arts, and Art Fund.

5.00pm	Doors open, time to view SUNLIGHT: Roger Ackling
6.00pm	Curators' talk, Town Close Auditorium Norwich Castle
7.30pm	Event close

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