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Artworks 25th Annual Exhibition at Blackthorpe Barn

Artworks celebrates twenty five years at its spiritual home (where it all began!) at Blackthorpe Barn, with the opening of Artworks 25th Annual Exhibition in September 2025.

Artworks 25th Annual Exhibition
13th to 28th September 2025
Blackthorpe Barn at Rougham Estate
Rougham, Nr Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP30 9HZ

An established annual event in the East Anglian art scene, Artworks welcome thousands of visitors to its annual exhibition, where elected Artworks members and guest artists showcase new & recent work. This is a wonderful opportunity to see fresh, contemporary art in the form of paintings, prints, textile art and sculpture by 28 East Anglian artists all under one roof.

  • Over 300 new & original artworks
  • Daily opportunities to meet the artists
  • Mini Artworks Prize Draw in support of EACH
  • Refreshments at Roots Café, open 9am – 4pm
  • Free entry, free parking
  • Nature trails on the Rougham Estate

Artworks Shop: greetings cards & smaller artworks that you can purchase & take away on the day. Wooden browsers (racks) throughout the exhibition display original drawings, prints & paintings, all at unframed prices – art for every budget.

Exhibiting artists: Valerie Armstrong, Lillias August, Lyn Aylward, Hazel Bradshaw, Terry Bryan (shop only), Sue Caddy, Louise Chapman, Martin Coe, Nicola Coe, Gillian Crossley-Holland, Cathy D’Arcy, Nicci Dedman, Janet French, Chris Gamble, Judith Glover, Jazz Green, Julia Groves, Simon Kimmins, Lucy Lutyens, Christine McKechnie, Kit Price Moss, Joe Pattison, Lucy Perry, Eileen Revett, Elisabeth Rutt, Rick Tomasi.

Artworks 25th Annual Exhibition
Saturday 13th to Sunday 28th September 2025
Blackthorpe Barn, Rougham, Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, IP30 9HZ.

TWO WEEKS, THREE WEEKENDS.

Exhibition open daily from 10am to 4pm* (please note earlier closing time, in line with other businesses on the Rougham estate).

How to find us: Tap IP30 9HZ into your SatNav or follow the signs from Junction 45, east of Bury St Edmunds on the A14. Look out for the entrance gates at the ‘White House’ T junction, and the tree-lined avenue that leads up to Blackthorpe Barn with visitor parking signposted on the right-hand side.

Visit the Rougham Estate website for more information on the location, including the café & garden shop, crafts fair, local public transport & other amenities.

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Contact us via artworkseast.com/contact with any queries or follow us @artworkseast on Instagram for regular exhibition news & updates.

Artworks 24th Annual Exhibition at Blackthorpe Barn – thank you!

A month has now passed since the opening of Artworks 24th Annual Exhibition at Blackthorpe Barn on the Rougham Estate.

We are delighted to report that this year’s exhibition has been a great success, and we are already making plans for our landmark 25th Annual Exhibition in September 2025!

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If you have not done so already, sign up to our email list (powered by Mailchimp) where you will be the first to be notified about a smaller group exhibition in Spring 2025, following on from the success of ‘Artworks at Woodbridge‘ in 2024. Joining the email list confirms your invitation to the Private View of our 25th Annual Exhibition at Blackthorpe Barn in September 2025.

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To share your views about Artworks, you can also write to us at artworkseast.com/contact.

Thank you from everyone at Artworks.

Quick links to the exhibiting artists:

Artworks Mini Artworks Prize Draw 2024 in support of The Alfie Carpenter Charity for Creative Arts

Artworks Mini Artworks Prize Draw

Win an Original Artwork by one of our Artists.  You can see the display of 28 Mini Artworks in the Artworks exhibition.

The Prize Draw takes place at 3pm on Saturday 28th September 2024.

Every year our artists create a small artwork for the Mini Artworks Prize Draw, to support a local charity that benefits local communities. The charity we have elected to support in 2024 is the newly incorporated Alfie Carpenter Charity for Creative Arts. The Mini Artworks Prize Draw also supports our Schools Programme which encourages schools to visit the Artworks exhibition and arranges school visits by our artists to deliver workshops.

The Alfie Carpenter Charity for Creative Arts

Vision: to enable young creatives to take the next step to develop their artistic work by supplying small grants for one off projects or capital costs for training or materials and further the development of the creative arts in East Anglia.

Aims: to advance education for the public benefit in East Anglia by the provision of grants that nurture talent and raise the standard of artistic skills and by providing opportunities for people who might otherwise be excluded, in particular but not exclusively for creative artists aged 20-35 years with low income.

More information: www.alfiecarpenter.com

Artworks Mini Artworks Prize Draw

Tickets are available at the Artworks sales desk, £2.00 each. All proceeds support the Artworks Schools programme and this year’s charity.

Artworks 24th Annual Exhibition
21st to 29th September 2024
Blackthorpe Barn
Rougham
Bury St Edmunds
Suffolk
IP30 9HZ