RETURN
Marion Piper

15-24th May 2025
The Crypt Gallery
The Close, Norwich

Press Release


For her first solo exhibition in Norwich Marion Piper presents a sequence of paintings for RETURN at the Crypt Gallery, which is situated in the Cathedral Close. Just over thirty  works on canvas were made during the past two years for this specific vaulted medieval space.
With her long held interest in early Italian Renaissance painting and through her geometric drawing process Piper explore rhythms, narrative loops and spaces; both real and imaginary. The paintings with their grey grounds play host to colourful forms which she finds by employing semi-circles within a gridded surface.
RETURN is supported by NCAS Small Grants programme.
The exhibition is open daily (except Sundays) 11am-4pm. There will be an informal artist talk in the gallery on Saturday 24th May at 2pm, no booking required.  
Accessibility details, please note there is a short flight of steep stairs to access the building.


Marion Piper is a British artist (b.1963 Norwich) Studied at Croydon College of Art, Wolverhampton School of Art and Buckinghamshire New University, from which she graduated in 2012. The artist’s first solo show was as part of the CVAN Platform Graduate award at MK Gallery in 2012.
Other exhibitions include  RA Summer Exhibition 2024, LUX Cromer Artspace 2023, Confluence of Lines, Abstract Project, Paris 2023, OMBRA, The Inspection Pit, East Harting UK, READER, Magdalen Art Space 2019, Coventry Biennial 2019, BE Absolutely Concrete, Osnabrück Germany 2019, Drawing Now, ICA Maine 2019, Beyond the Surface, Square Projects, London 2018, Louder than Bombs, New York  2018, Seasons, Autour de la Poesie d’Etel Adnan, Espace Dessales Paris 2017, Creekside Open 2017 selected by Alison Wilding, Phantom, Ruskin Gallery, Cambridge 2017, Jerwood Drawing Prize Show 2016, The B&W Project Transmitter, Brooklyn NY 2016, Contemporary British Abstraction SE9 Gallery London 2015.
Upcoming, June 2025, Fenestration, A Drawing Collective show at DRAW Space, Sydney