The Assembly House has been a centre for the arts since 1945. The Trust organises and supports exhibitions and events both at The House and through a free online arts programme.
For information on arts events and open calls please join the Mailing List or follow us on Instagram.
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There is no dedicated gallery space at The Assembly House but several of the rooms are available to hire, click here for the prices. The Trust has a fund that can help cover the costs of hiring rooms for events, for information on how to apply visit Community Fund.
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There are three cases in the Noverre corridor that host exhibitions organised by The Trust, these are not available for hire. Information on the current show can be found further down this page.
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The Assembly House Trust are working with the Norwich-based Reel Connections to revive one of Norwich’s long-lost cinemas for three special screenings this summer. The programme launches with the multi award-winning homage to the love of cinema Cinema Paradiso on Thursday 2 May. The short season continues in June with the return of one of the Noverre’s most fondly remembered Kid’s Club titles, Bugsy Malone and cult comedy classic Withnail & I.
View the programme
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You can find out more about the Summer Open 2023 exhibition here.
We were very pleased to welcome visitors back to the House in 2021 for the return of our Open exhibition. The open call received 900 submissions, and 40 artworks were selected. The works in the show included paintings, drawings, sculpture, prints, textiles and ceramics. The Summer Open will happen every two years.
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A free programme of visual arts, sound, poetry and performance. The regular programme of online events has now ended but you can rewatch all of the previous events on YouTube. We will continue to host events on our YouTube channel along with in-person events at The House.
The Noverre Cases
There are three cases in the Noverre corridor that host exhibitions organised by The Trust, these are not available for hire. Information on the current and recent shows can be found below. If you are interested in purchasing work that is on display, please contact Henry.
February 2024 – May 2024
Tor Falcon
These pastel drawings are a small selection from a bigger exhibition I had in Cumbria last year. We live and work in Norfolk but my husband’s family were originally from Cumbria, their farming roots are deep and we spend a lot of time there. I first came to Loweswater 30 years ago, when I met my husband. There are things, like the lone thorn at the bottom of Low Fell or the sagging zig-zag of wall behind the house that I’ve drawn over and over again. There are places that I’ll never tire of, like the curve of the fold of the ground above the beck. Unlike many of my projects, in which I move through an unfamiliar landscape using drawing as a way of exploring, these Cumbrian pictures are of somewhere I now know well. The whole world is here, everyone’s got a view. To add to the cacophony, here are my drawings of a farm in the fells.
November 2023 – February 2024
Simon Newby
Simon Newby manipulates modular objects and materials to create works that play with pattern and movement within two and three-dimensional spaces. Diverse materials are altered or concealed, triggering new ambiguous surfaces and forms.
Underpinned by a haphazard linearity, his sculptures have been imagined as drawings in space. In these fleeting sketches, once functional objects and materials slip between the rational and ridiculous, in various states of completion. They begin to offer up a visually enticing logic of their own, which is awkward, unsettling and usually quite funny.
June 2023 – October 2023
Ali Hewson, Rachel Kurdynowska, and Rya Nicholson
Exhibited in the Noverre corridor cabinets are pieces that provide inspiration and information, acting as a reminder to successes or failures within their ceramic journeys. These include wood fired kiln props, ring pulls, wadding and cone packs, slipware experiments, glaze texts, found objects, investigation into wheel thrown forms and sketches.
Exhibiting at The Assembly House
There is no dedicated gallery space at The Assembly House but several of the rooms are available to hire, click here for the prices. The Trust has a fund that can help cover the costs of hiring rooms for events, for information on how to apply visit Community Fund. Every other year the Trust holds an Open Submission exhibition, join the mailing list to hear about upcoming opportunities and events.
Photograph from the Pride 2023 exhibition in The Noverre Ballroom
Other events
June 14–19, 11am–5pm
There were 1000 works submitted by over 350 artists from local Norwich to Northern Ireland. 48 works have been selected for the exhibition including: drawings, ceramics, paintings, photographs, prints, sculptures, and textiles.
The exhibition was free to visit, and was open daily 11am-5pm until Monday 19 June 2023.
Archive
A free programme of visual arts, sound, poetry and performance that launched in April 2020. The regular programme of online events has ended but you can rewatch all of the previous events on YouTube.