Fen Ditton Gallery

This conversation was recording with Agnes Treherne live at Fen Ditton Gallery on Wednesday 25th February 2026 as part of the Kindred Land exhibition. Gallery Manager / Curator Hannah discusses with Agnes the landscape as her continual inspiration, her creative upbringing and the influence of her mother and the family on her work. You can view the exhibition and discussed works online at fenditton...

Hello and welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, with gallery manager Hannah Munby This episode features a conversation with ceramicist Claire Curneen, who is currently exhibiting at the gallery as part of our exhibition ‘A Conversation with Trees’. The exhibition is open until Sunday 27th October. Find out more and view the show online at fendittongallery.com/a-conversation-with-trees Cl...

Before completing the Drawing Year in 2021, Otis Blease studied Drawing and Printmaking at Bristol’s University of the West of England, where he was awarded the Dumfries House residency upon graduation. Having grown up in rural Cornwall, the move to London to study at The Royal Drawing School had a considerable impact on his work and the city’s constant state of motion added an energy and spontane...

Olly Williamson was born in 1994 and grew up in a village just outside of Preston.  He completed the Drawing ear at the Royal Drawing School in 2023, after graduating from Manchester School of Art with a first-class honours in Fine Art in 2016. Olly makes work about quiet situations in life, utilising intense observation and experimental structures of composition. His images reflect the underlying...

Originally from Cambridge, Felix Higham studied at Central St Martin’s before completing The Drawing Year in 2021. His artistic focus centres on the intricate study of people and the dynamics of life within the spaces we construct for our use. His observational drawings conducted in pubs and cafés provide material from which Felix constructs narrative works back in the studio. Through the placemen...

This conversation was recorded with emerging artist Ellie Lonsdale who is currently exhibiting at Fen Ditton Gallery as part our Voices in Drawing exhibition. The exhibition showcases the work of six recent graduates and alumni from The Royal Drawing School and is open until Sunday 25th February 2024. You can find out more and view the exhibition online at ⁠⁠fendittongallery.com⁠⁠ Ellie Lonsdale g...

Hello and welcome to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, with me Hannah Munby. This conversation was recorded with emerging artist Euan Evans on my recent visit to his studio in Stoke Newington, to collect the paintings and drawings that are currently on show at Fen Ditton Gallery as part our Voices in Drawing exhibition. The exhibition showcases the work of six recent graduates and alumni from The Ro...

Agnes Treherne was born in Sussex in 1987. She studied Fine Art and History of Art at the University of Edinburgh, and went on to complete The Drawing Year at The Royal Drawing School, graduating in 2021. In was in the September following her graduation that Agnes first exhibited at Fen Ditton Gallery.  Agnes’ work is concerned with how our thoughts and articulations are informed by the environmen...

Hello and welcome to this episode of the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, with me, Hannah Munby.   My conversation today is with textile artist Ptolemy Mann, whose exquisite bold woven works will be shown in our upcoming exhibition ‘Going Yellow’. In this conversation, Ptolemy and I discuss her bohemian upbringing; how her extensive colour theory training allows her to break the rules, how she has owne...

Hello and welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast   In this episode, I speak to Cambridge artist David Emond, whose exhibition ‘Light, Colour, Pattern’ is currently on display at Fen Ditton Gallery. This is David’s first solo exhibition and includes works that spans the last 45 years of his artistic journey.   You can view the exhibition online at fendittongallery.com/light-colour-pattern o...

Thank you for listening to this episode of the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast that was recorded at the gallery as part of our current exhibition Willard Boepple 'Shards and Sources'. We are very grateful to Elenor Ling and Kip Gresham, both of whom have been incredibly generous with their time and knowledge not just for this exhibition but for other projects at the gallery too – namely the Con...

Hello and welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, hosted by Hannah Munby. In this episode, I was delighted to interview artist and printmaker Sarah Gillespie who is currently exhibiting at the gallery as part of our Art, Science and the Natural World exhibition. The exhibition brings together three artists who have recently completed an invited residency with the Cambridge Conservation Ini...

In this episode, I’m joined by artist Wycliffe Stutchbury who is currently exhibiting in our Water/Land exhibition. Formerly a furniture maker, Wycliffe has chosen to continue to work with wood in his artistic career too. The works start with a hunt for the timber, whether that be foraging or searching dealers for the piece that will inspire his next project. The piece that we are lucky enough to...

Welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, with me, Hannah Munby. This episode features a recent conversation with Otis Blease, who is one of three recent graduates from Royal Drawing School that will be exhibited in our Voices in Drawing exhibition this autumn. Otis completed a Drawing and Printmaking degree at Bristol UWE, before going on to study on the prestigious Drawing Year at the Roya...

Fen Ditton Gallery is delighted to be hosting a new exhibition of photographs by former Head of Photography at Central St Martins, Graham Murrell, 20 YEARS ON. It was twenty years ago that Graham Murrell completed his first major exhibition, Lights Spells, made and exhibited at Kettle’s Yard in collaboration with his Central St Martin’s colleague, Kathryn Faulkner. The two photographers visited Ji...

Welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast hosted by Hannah Munby. This episode features a recent conversation with Past President of the Royal Society of British Artists, James Horton. James was elected as the president in 2009 and stood down in 2017, returning back to, as he says, the indulgence of being a painter once again. During his time as president of the society, he was a pioneer for...

This episode features a recent conversation with ceramicist Frances Priest, who I caught up with towards the end of January. Drawing is an important part of Frances’ practice and we have been lucky enough to show a selection of these works in our Plantlife exhibition last year and will soon be exhibiting a selection of newly developed works from her India series in our upcoming Spring show. Thank...

Welcome back to the Fen Ditton Gallery podcast, hosted by Hannah Munby. I’m delighted to bring you my recent conversation with painter, printmaker and collage artist, Rebecca Jewell. The daughter of a zoologist and an archaeo-zoologist, Rebecca spent her childhood immersed in the natural world and this interest has followed her through life. Her work is a cross-cultural examination of the human ex...

Welcome back to this series of conversations with artists and makers we’ve had the pleasure of working with at Fen Ditton Gallery.  This month, gallery manager Hannah has been chatting to Kate Jones, one half of contemporary glass-making duo, Studio Gillies Jones. Working from their studio in the North York Moors, Kate and Stephen are partners in life and art, and their hand-blown, hand-engra...

Welcome back to our new podcast from Hannah, gallery manager at Fen Ditton Gallery, featuring her conversations with some of the artists and makers we have had the pleasure to work with. This episode features a recent interview with Paul Hart, as we prepare for his next exhibition at Fen Ditton Gallery, Edgelands. For the past decade, the Fens have become the central focus of Paul’s work, resultin...

In the second episode in a new series of interviews with contemporary artists and makers, hosted by gallery manager, Hannah Munby, we have been lucky enough to catch up with textile artist and designer, Pauline Burbidge, whose 2sqm quilt, Starscape, will be exhibited as part of our Plantlife exhibition. I hope you enjoy listening to this interview with Pauline and discovering more about the inspir...

As lockdown continues, we’re constantly on the look out for ways to bring you interesting news and stories from our artists and makers. This week, I had a chat with former Head of Photography at Central St Martins, Graham Murrell , whose sensitive recording of the resilience of County Mayo, Ireland is the third and final exhibition of our inaugural Festival of Photography. Here we spoke about his...