Snape Maltings

 

One of the world’s leading centres of music, Snape Maltings brings together a creative campus buzzing with activity, outstanding concerts and events, and distinctive independent shops, cafés, galleries and walks, all set within a breathtaking expanse of reeds, water and sky on the Suffolk coast.

Snape Maltings has grown out of the Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten in 1948, and Britten’s vision for Snape Maltings remains at the heart of its work – a place international in its reach while rooted in its local communities.

Ever since Snape Maltings Concert Hall was created in 1967 artists have exhibited and installed work throughout the site, notably pieces by Barbara Hepworth, Henry Moore, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume and Sarah Lucas.

The Maltings Gallery at Snape Maltings is a treasure box of wonderful finds from the paintings of the celebrated Maggi Hambling CBE – created in her studio just a few miles away – to new work from up-and-coming printmakers based in local villages.

Innovative Forms - The Lettering of John Skelton at The Lettering Arts Centre celebrates John Skelton's innovative approach to Alphabet and lettering design and explores the large variety of commissions he produced. John Stephen Skelton MBE (8 July 1923 – 26 November 1999) was a British sculptor and letter-cutter whose work embraced a range of disciplines including stone and wood carving, heraldry, calligraphy and metalwork.

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Benjamin Britten - A Hymn To The Virgin.