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Events & Exhibitions at The Nottage

Every summer The Nottage hosts a variety of events driven by local demand. Artists book weekends or whole weeks to display and sell their work knowing that our popular venue will always attract visitors from far and wide.

Pop up shops, book launches, helping to facilitate the annual regatta. Our modern kitchen is also equipped to either cook a meal from scratch or facilitate a banquet ( as in the picture ) that are regular occurrences here as the building is flexible enough to accommodate all these different events. The Nottage also puts on an annual exhibition of its own, drawing from its extensive archive of local Wivenhoe history, photographs, and memorabilia.

The winter months see the return of the much-loved monthly talks. Heating up, screen down and the chairs set out for an interesting and informative delivery from experts in their field on many and diverse subjects. Always punctuated by tea, coffee, and biscuits. These talks are free to people who have become ‘Friends of The Nottage’, £3.00 per talk to everyone else.

Maybe you have an event we could help promote with our unique venue – just let us know.

Upcoming Events

Ernie Turner – A Wivenhoe Artist

6/7, 13/14, 20/21 June. 1.00 – 4.00 p.m.
This exhibition marks the 20th anniversary of a major exhibition that we held in 2006 at the Nottage of the works of Ernie Turner, one of Wivenhoe’s many artists. Ernie was born in Brook Street in 1899 and spent most of his working life in Wivenhoe’s shipyard. Upon retiring, and in the prolific artistic community that was beginning to flourish in the early 1960s, he decided to join in and take up painting. His work was well-known in the community and even further abroad, as he was encouraged by other local artists, notably Dickie Chopping and Denis Wirth-Miller, who lived next door to the Nottage on the Quay. For the next 12 years until his death in 1977 Ernie produced many pictures of Wivenhoe scenes and the boats he’d known on the river Colne. His work fell into the “naïve” category and can be compared to the work of Alfred Wallis, the Cornish artist whose life was also linked to boats and the sea. Like Wallis, (though not in the same price league!), Ernie’s paintings and ship models are now collectable and the Nottage has several of each on display. For our new exhibition we hope to show even more of Ernie’s work than the 70 or so pieces we displayed last time.