Return of Black Shuck & Friends
Our latest exhibition features selected artists from the 2024 Black Shuck Festival Open Call. The Black Shuck Festival is hosted in Bungay from 2nd, 3rd and 4th August, celebrating the folklore, myths and legends of East Anglia.
The legend of Black Shuck tells of a wild black dog that entered Bungay’s St Mary’s Church during a violent storm on 4 August 1577. The animal then reappeared at Blythburgh church, where the beast was trapped and its claw marks, burned into the surface of the door, can be seen to this day.
Return of Black Shuck & Friends
Exhibition Prizes Sponsored By:
Evening Drinks Sponsored By:
Congratulations to our prize winners
First Prize
Lauren Sharples
Shadows of the Shuck
Second Prize
Sarah Lee
The Business of Nobody
Third Prize
Aine Corr
Wild Things
A selection of works in the exhibition:
The following images are a small sample of the artwork on show in the gallery, we are sorry there are too many to show them all here, come and visit us to see the full exhibition with over 150 exhibits!
Sandy Horsely
Shucky Dogs
Ben Edge
Wild Man of Orford
Kate Green
Black Shuck Gazing at his Own Reflection
Jackie Bell
Mark Copeland
Black Shuck
Kaz Binney
The Orford Wildman
Moph
Sally Jones
Demon to Some, Guardian to Others
Kerry Timewell
Louise Bird
Black Shuck
Nicola Slattery
Mere Wife
Tamsin Abbott
Strangeness Abounds
Morag Bassingthwaighte
The Black Shuck
Tulane Richards
Dunwich Atlantis
Becky Munting
Shucks
Ava Groves Webster
Iza Mieszkowska
Night Watcher
Liz Goulding
Dexter by the Lake
Polly Martin
Black Shuck Howls to the Moon on Outney Common
Peter Rodulfo
The Beast of Bungay
Nancy Bevington
The Encounter
James Johnston
Blythburgh Holy Trinity
Kasia Posen
Kirstin Barrett
The Ludham Dragon
Jim Anderson
Jessica Pearce
Libby Leftwich
Eva’s Heart
Helen Derbyshire
Who? Me?
Eloise Hanikene
Ella Goodwin
Craig Humpston
Black Dog
Haychley Webb
Solstice
Natural Alchemist
Shuck
James Mayhew
Nicola Eastell
Weeping Horse
Patrick Will Baker
Shadow Lurker
Lizzie Ault
The Tiddy Munn
Kerina Strevens
Secret Witch
Adam Batchelor
Aedamer Long
Hilary Bartholomew
Sleepy Schuck
Alison Croucher
Owd Rugman
Pam Richards
Taken Hearts
Tym Lawrence
Green Children
Lucinda Cheshire
Zoe Ansari
Friend or Foe
Meraylah Allwood
Elsa Habben
St Osgyth’s Head
Hilary Barry
The Power of Dreams
Emily Tomasi
Black Shuck Party
Nick Lerner
Spadge Hopkins
Sutton Hoo Ship
Sally Watson
Terrible Wunder
Marie Noelle van Berkel-Chargois
Encounter
Amy Silburn-Slater
Green Man Bellarmine
Andy Midgley
Black Shuck, Horsey
Anna Badar
Dark Forebodings over Blythburgh Marshes
Calyx Allerton-Bullard
Black Shuck in the Cathedral of the Marshes