Our ‘Conversation with the Artist’ programme is delivered in partnership with Wisbech Gallery. These events offer an opportunity for creatives, and members of the public, to attend open discussions with professional artists, to learn more about their practice and view their artworks. During the evening events, creatives also get time to network with other practitioners, discuss ideas for future works and collaborate on new projects.
Conversation With The Artist – Tim Mann, ‘I Am Different’
Join us on Thursday 26th March, for an evening of conversation with Tim Mann.
“Tim Mann is a visual artist with 40 years of experience, passionate about promoting the arts and supporting fellow artists. Driven by curiosity, empathy, and a neurodiverse way of seeing the world, he creates work that explores what it is to be human. Over the years, he has shaped his practice through making original artworks, taking on commissions, exhibiting, and finding creative ways to keep doing what he finds important. Tim understands the importance of making a living as a working creative practitioner and believes deeply in valuing the skills, experience, and insight that artists bring to the world. Aware that there are many ways to build a life—and that art is just one of them—he approaches his work with balance, openness, and genuine passion.”
Thursday 26th February
Doors open from 6:30pm, talk begins 7pm
Free entry, no booking required.
Conversation With The Artist – ‘Unseen Perspectives’ Dawn Boon & Tony Lumb
Join us on Thursday 12th February, for an evening of conversation with Dawn Boon & Tony Lumb.
Boon and Lumb will be sharing some insight into their creative journeys and more about the inspiration behind their joint exhibition, ‘Unseen Perspectives’, which is currently showing in Wisbech Gallery.
Thursday 12th February
Doors open from 6:30pm, talk begins 7pm
Free entry, no booking required.
Conversation With The Artist – ‘What is Drawing?’
Join us on Thursday 15th January, for our first Conversation With The Artist event of 2026!
We will be joined by four practicing artists to discuss ‘what is drawing’. Come along to join the conversation, and find out more about the Wisbech Gallery Drawing Open exhibition, DRAW26.
Thursday 15th January
Doors open from 6:30pm, talk begins 7pm
Free entry, no booking required.
Past Events
Conversation With The Artist – Emily Richardson
Join us on Thursday 23rd October 2025, for our Conversation with the Artist. This month, we will be joined by PhD student, Emily Richardson, who will be exploring her research into gothic literature and woodcut illustrations. A Scare for Every Season: ‘The Calendar of Horrors’ & 1830s Gothic Visual Culture. Paying special attention to George Drake and Thomas Prest’s serial ‘The Calendar of Horrors’, this talk will explore the history of the penny blood, from the chapbooks and bluebooks of the early 1800s to the explosion in popularity of crime broadsides in the 1830s; all with a focus on their fabulously spooky woodcuts and illustrations! Thursday 23rd October, doors open 6:30pm, talk from 7pm-9pm. Entry is free with no booking required.
Conversation With The Artist – Peter Swann & Paul Ebbens
Our ‘Conversation with the Artist’ event in August will be with artists Paul Ebbens and Peter Swanwho will be sharing ideas and concepts as well as their long term working collaboration.
The event will be from 7pm-9pm on Thursday 21st August 2025, with doors opening from 6.30pm. Entry is free and no booking is required
Conversation With The Artist – Ruby Bellamy
Our ‘Conversation with the Artist’ event in July will be with artist Ruby Bellamy who will be sharing her research into the relationship between craft and fine art.
To see more of Ruby’s work visit her website, here.
The event will be from 7pm-9pm on Thursday 31st July 2025, with doors opening from 6.30pm. Entry is free and no booking is required
Conversation with the Artist – Eves
Our Conversation with the Artist event on Thursday 29th May 2025 is ‘Vandal with a box of crayons and a Ball point pen’. Our Guest Speaker is Eves, a professional artist, teacher, illustrator and photographer for more than 20 years, who is inspired by landscape, urban arts, colour and movement. Eves’ work tries to capture not only the essence of the moment but to record its historical footprint too.
The Conversation with the Artist is from 7pm – 9pm, with the doors opening from 6.30pm. Entry is free and there is no booking required, but we recommend you get here early to get a seat!
Conversation With The Artist – Tim Mann
In preparation for our next exhibition ‘DRAW 25’ Artist and Blackfield Creatives Creative Director, Tim Mann, will be leading a discussion about ‘What Is Drawing?’
Join us for what we anticipate is going to be a lively conversation. Doors open from 6:30pm on Thursday 24th April 2025, and the talk starts promptly at 7pm! Entry is free and there is no need to book.
Conversation with The Artist – Carry Akroyd
Thursday 27th March 2025, 7pm
This is a great opportunity to not only hear about Carry’s Artistic practice, and inspiration, John Clare, but also see her exhibition ‘Found in The Fields’ at Wisbech Gallery.
Conversation With The Artist – Peter Swann
Thursday 27th February 2025, 7pm
A majority of Peter’s work contains provoking and nostalgic items which were previously discarded. He quotes: “My aim is to gather unrelated objects and materials and then organise, balance, and harmonise the uncertainty and disorder I see in front of me. I seek to touch and transform the observer – to infect and inspire them with my creative vision”.
Find out more on Peter Swann’s Website and join us at the event.
Conversation With The Artist – Jaine Laine
Thursday 30th January 2025, 7pm
You will recognise this piece, ‘Self Portrait on Woolwich Common with circus elephants’, as one of our Judge’s Special Mentions from our 2024 Annual Open Exhibition!! We can’t wait to invite photographer, Jaine Laine, back to the Gallery to learn about her creative practice and see more of her stunning work.
Conversation with the Artist – HAG
Join us on Thursday 24th October 2024 for our very first Conversation with the Artist!
This is a new programme that we are introducing with Wisbech Gallery, to allow visitors, and fellow creatives, to attend open discussions with professional artists. The first Artist to join us is photographer Hag Hagis who is known for his precise use of printing techniques to create surreal imagery. Hag is currently exhibiting two of his artworks in the Wisbech Gallery Open Exhibition.
Our Conversation with HAG will be an open space to hear more about HAG’s creative practice. He will also answer questions and offer the audience an opportunity to engage with his art.
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