Since Lockdown and 2022 Meg has decided not to perform shows or employ puppeteers any longer, so our most popular recent shows Apple Pip and Pip’s Wildlife Garden will no longer be available to tour. Apple Pip clocked up 217 performances in two different versions, with the original puppeteer Suzanne Arnold, and later Steve Peck …read more…
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Remembering Guy
Following the Exhibition in Lowestoft in 2023, Meg has made a film about the event and Guy Richardson’s life as an artist.More information the sister site https://www.meg-amsden.co.uk
Memorial exhibition for Guy Richardson continues 7th – 8th October
A memorial event and exhibition curated by Meg Amsden and held on the weekend of 9th to 10th September 2023 was such a success that it will be open again for the weekend of 7th and 8th October.
PeopleSCATtered
A project begun in the winter of 21/22 to chase away the blues of having no work on the horizon, when Meg and long time collaborator, composer Jane Wells, sat outside the Forum in Norwich, watching people passing in the square below and Jane came up with the idea of making a piece about what …read more…
Sad news of death of Guy Richardson
Guy Richardson. 6.9.1933 – 13.9.2021 My dear friend, colleague and teacher Guy Richardson died on 13th September, peacefully in his sleep, at his daughter’s house in Lowestoft. He was 88 and had achieved his wish to “just fade away”. Guy playing the part of Mr Noah in Noah’s Park, the last show that we …read more…
Wild puppet-making workshop Saturday 4th Sept.
Come and make wild puppets in between train rides at: The Country Railway Gala at “The Middy” Mid Suffolk Light Railway, Wetheringsett, Suffolk. https://www.mslr.org.uk/find us Saturday 4 Sep 2021 11.15 – 1.15, 2 – 4 (The Gala is a celebration of how the Middy served its largely rural/farming community for nearly 50 years with all …read more…
Sculpture Trails 2021 dates announced!
Meg will be exhibiting in 2021 at: Sculpture in the Valley 28th May – 27th June https://waveneyandblytharts.com/ Raveningham Sculpture Trail 1st August – 5th September. https://www.raveninghamsculpturetrail.com More information will be found on Nutmeg’s sister site: https://www.meg-amsden.co.uk
New for 2021 – 2 Birds by Zoom
Meg has established a regular relationship with the Red House Aldeburgh (Britten Pears Arts) Mini Music Makers group, performing a show and a workshop in the winter of 2019/2020 and expecting to work there again in the summer, but Covid 19 lock-down brought that to a halt. In January 2021, she was asked by Joe …read more…
Raveningham Sculpture Trail 2020
Only one week left to see the Sculpture Trail at Raveningham, where Meg is showing six new pieces of work. Trail closes on Monday 31st August. https://www.raveninghamsculpturetrail.com (more) Three pieces can be found at site 37 – Rebirth (bronze), Infant/Soul and Locked In (Jesmonite). Three refugees from the cancelled Sculpture in the Valley Exhibition – …read more…
New website launched
My new website is now published and ready for viewing at; https://www.meg-amsden.co.uk It’s about Meg’s own work in sculpture, drawing, film and sound, and features updates about exhibitions and installations. Infant/Soul on display at Raveningham Sculpture Trail 1st – 31st August 2020. https://www.raveninghamsculpturetrail.com Meanwhile the Nutmeg site will continue to function as an archive of …read more…