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12:02 PM April 21, 2021
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The Babylon Gallery and gift shop, on Ely’s riverside, reopens on Friday April 23 with the No Frost at Night exhibition. Amber s sculptures are pictured.
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Five artworks created in response to a 1963 weather diary written by lifelong Soham resident Betty Mann form the first exhibition at Babylon Gallery in Ely as it re-opens post-lockdown on Friday April 23.
Visitors to the No Frost at Night exhibition - inspired by The Big Freeze of 63 - can expect to see variations on the winter landscape with abstract depictions of mist, frost, ice and snow.
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