Firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex, which opened in 1993 as Colchester and District Visual Arts Trust, changing its name to Firstsite in 1995.[1] Its current building was opened in 2011.[2]
It was the national Art Fund's Museum of the Year in 2021.[3]
The building Firstsite occupies as a tenant was designed by Rafael Viñoly and the freehold is retained by Colchester Council.[4] The building is situated in Colchester's "Cultural Quarter" near The Minories, Colchester, fifteen Queen Street (a creative business hub), the Norman Colchester Castle, the Natural History Museum, Hollytrees Museum and Colchester's Roman Wall.
Its exhibits are on a rolling six-monthly basis, starting with Camulodunum.[5] It cooperated with Essex University to show South American art until 2013.[6][7][8] Firstsite has no permanent art collection of its own.[9]
It was awarded the national Art Fund Museum of the Year prize in 2021.[3] Firstsite is a registered charity under English law.[10]
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^"firstsite". Colchester Borough Council. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 26 January 2018.
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^"University of Essex to rehouse its Latin American collection". artinternet.net. 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
^"Works on Display". ESCALA University of Essex. Retrieved 11 June 2016.
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^"Firstsite Limited, registered charity no. 1031800". Charity Commission for England and Wales.
Firstsite is a visual arts organisation based in Colchester, Essex, which opened in 1993 as Colchester and District Visual Arts Trust, changing its name...
Colchester and Ipswich Hospitals Charity. The first exhibition was held at Firstsite, Colchester, in October 2020. The artwork displayed "the thoughts, feelings...
Tapestry of Essex Everywoman’s life caught at Grayson Perry’s Firstsite show", Firstsite. Accessed 9 January 2018 "Royal Television Society Regional Centres'...
Colchester’s Firstsite gallery into special measures in 2015 because of concerns over governance and the company’s proposed business model. Firstsite subsequently...
New Art Centre, Wiltshire, 1995. Journeys West, University Gallery and Firstsite at the Minories, Colchester; touring exhibition organised by University...
Pageot, Harley R. "Out Of The Woods: Bowmanville Band Takes Flight". firstsite.oshawhat.ca. Archived from the original on March 25, 2016. Retrieved April...
Banana. Numerous works by Lucas feature in the exhibition Big Women at the firstsite gallery in Colchester in the UK in Spring 2023. In September 2023 an exhibition...
President on 9 November 2016. From November 2016 to February 2017 the Firstsite art gallery in Colchester, hosted a retrospective of Gee Vaucher's artwork...
Colchester Beer Festival. The Headgate Theatre is also located in Colchester. Firstsite is a contemporary art organisation, based in the Visual Arts Facility...
(2011) Invisible Strategies, Modern Art Oxford (2016–2017) Warp and Weft, Firstsite, Colchester (2017) Our Kisses are Petals, Baltic Centre for Contemporary...
and District Visual Arts Forum) that later led to the development of Firstsite. In 2013, The Minories Galleries presented a body of work that was developed...
End and the East Anglian School of Painting and Drawing" was held at Firstsite, in Colchester, Essex, from 11 December 2021 to 18 April 2022, featuring...
UK art exhibition The Great Big Art Exhibition, which was organised by Firstsite. Ai's piece, called Postcard for Political Prisoners, incorporated a photograph...
and broadcaster. Millard is Chair of BBC Children in Need and Chair of Firstsite gallery in Colchester. She is vice Chair of Opera North. Previous roles...
large-scale installations. Her exhibitions have included Sorry I'm Late at Firstsite. In 2017 she became the first black woman to be awarded a commission to...
Business as Usual, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, Angel Row, Nottingham; Firstsite, Colchester (curated and organised by Film & Video Umbrella) 2001 My Megastore...
(Afghanistan 2011) Mark Neville, born 1966 (Afghanistan 2011; commission by firstsite, Colchester, in association with the IWM) Steve McQueen (director) (Iraq...
Sculpture Notable work Miniature Worlds at the Jerwood Space, The Mouse That Roared at Project 133 in Peckham, and The Terror at Firstsite in Colchester....
California. 2012. Retrieved 12 June 2016. "Wivenhoe artist James Dodds back at Firstsite Art Gallery". Colchester Gazette. 10 December 2015. Retrieved 27 January...
c076-3b27-38c2-975b-976aa3fad234 "Edward Bawden: Essex Watercolours". Firstsite: Contemporary Visual Arts in Colchester. Archived from the original on...
and numerous others. Another Cultural Traffic event took place at the Firstsite contemporary art gallery in Colchester on 18 February 2017. The event's...
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