The Art Station is an arts charity located in a historic market town in rural East Suffolk. The Art Station’s two unique venues on the high street have become a base for a FREE dynamic and engaging Art and Learning programme that serves the local community and coastal rural Suffolk and provides access to unique creative opportunities.
We aim to unlock potential and effect real change – enabling people to come together to form communities around creative experiences. By developing a professional network for creatives and offering affordable workspace The Art Station is developing the local creative industries in the region.
The Art Station’s innovative Art and Learning Programme comprises exhibitions, events, talks, walks, tours and screenings, with sessions for all ages built around the programme to offer access to and increase engagement with contemporary creative practice.
Our community activities offer a range of accessible creative opportunities for different social groups in the local area with an emphasis on art, wellbeing and collaboration. Our riverside garden engages people in our local natural heritage and how we can all value and support the increase of biodiversity and protection of local habitats.
“The creation of studios, work spaces and a meeting point for the cultural and creative community in rural East Suffolk, has the potential to build the local economy and sense of place.”
Jayne Knight (arts development manager, Suffolk County Council)