This list holds the details of
the galleries that are regularly holding curated exhibitions and their
current shows / events. Some current Exhibitions are listed here.
More current exhibitions are now listed in our events calendar and venues and artists are very welcome to post details of exhibitions there.
Located in the heart of historic Lancaster, Arteria is housed in a recently restored 1800s building with the shop distinctively integrated over two open plan floors. Throughout the ground floor beautiful creative displays illustrate the best of contemporary living and located on the first floor is Gallery 23 exhibiting a diverse range of contemporary artwork and crafts from leading and national artists.
The
Dukes, Moor Lane, Lancaster LA1 1QE
- (01524) 598500
The Dukes Gallery is
generally open Monday - Saturday 10am to 10pm but please call
the Dukes on 01524 598505 to check if you are travelling specifically.
Free
Lancaster office:
Unit 6.4.4, Alston House, White Cross, Lancaster, LA1 4XQ
Tel: 01524
388550
E-mail: Contact
folly
Web site: www.folly.co.uk
folly is a leading digital arts organisation. Working in Lancashire, Cumbria and online, folly is committed to enabling new audiences to explore art through technology.
folly delivers creative projects, events, workshops and exhibitions in Lancashire and Cumbria. Specialising in new media, folly is involved with projects involving moving image, the web, creative and open source software, mobile communications and animation.
folly has embarked on an ambitious development process as part of Lancaster City Council's project to establish a new Storey Creative Industry Centre (SCIC), a dynamic new cultural quarter for the city. It is envisaged that the development will provide space for a new exhibition venue and media lab for folly, due to re-open in 2007/08.
As a result, folly is currently non-venue based and resident in a new office space at White Cross, Lancaster.
folly offers events, training and education opportunities including computer applications, creative photography, moving image, sound, digital image manipulation and more. See their site for details - where you can also subscribe free to their fortnightly folly eNewsletter or to the weekly FOIL (folly Opportunities, Information and Listings).
Entry
£2 / £1 (Charges may vary.) Children (accompanied)
free. Season Ticket: Adult £5 / Family + Friends £8.
Opening times:
From Good Friday - 30 June: Mon - Fri 1-4pm, Sat + Sun 12-4pm.
1st July - 30th Sep: Mon - Fri 10am-4pm; Sat + Sun 12-4pm
1st - 31st Oct: Mon - Fri 1-4pm, Sat + Sun 12-4pm
Permanent: Old master + impressionist paintings. Museum of Childhood includes 'Out of the
Showcase' Playroom and a collection of dolls toys + games from the
18C to present day. Attend class in the Edwardian schoolroom.
Acclaimed collection of Gillow furniture.
Lancaster's 18C connections with the slave-trade are explored in
a series of portraits.
Trace the history of the 'beastly' Thomas Covell, witch-hunter and
jailer, central in the capture, trial and execution of the Pendle
Witches.
St Peter’s Cathedral,
Cathedral House,
Balmoral Road,
Lancaster LA1 3BT
Tel: 01524 384820
Fax: 01524 384831 events@lancastercathedral.org.uk
Open Mon - Fri 4 - 6pm, Sat + Sun 1 - 4pm. Free Admission (donations to the Anne Frank Trust welcomed)
Full disabled access.
The City Museum is
housed in Lancaster's former Town Hall, built in 1781-3 to the
designs of Major Thomas Jarrett and Thomas Harrison. The Museum
itself was founded in 1923 and its newly redisplayed collections
illustrate the history and archaeology of the city of Lancaster,
the most northerly and rural part of Lancashire. It contains the
King's Own Regimental Museum
Permanent: 'Dressed to
Kill' Lancaster Military Meritage Group, King's Own Royal Border
Regt.
Open Daily. Easter to October:
11am - 5pm
November to Easter: 12.30 - 4pm
Admission: £3 adults, £2 concessions.
Free to children and Lancaster residents.
This museum occupies two
historic buildings on St. George's Quay, the main 18th century harbour.
It was opened in 1985 and has won many awards. The former Custom
House of 1764, designed by Richard Gillow, contains displays on
the history of the Port of Lancaster and the local fishing industry,
with a gallery for exhibitions. In the adjacent warehouse are displays
on the Lancaster Canal and the ecology of Morecambe Bay. Several
preserved vessels are also displayed, including 'Sir William Priestley'
and 'Coronation Rose'. There is a cafeteria and shop and parking
is available at the rear.
The Storey Gallery in Lancaster is an artist-centred gallery which presents high quality contemporary visual art. The programme includes exhibitions and projects by artists with national or international reputations, together with educational activities, workshops and talks.
The Gallery is housed in a splendid Victorian art gallery in the Storey Institute, a grade II-listed building in the centre of Lancaster. Plans are underway for the whole building to be refurbished as a Creative industries Centre.
The adjoining walled garden includes The Tasting Garden, a permanent environmental artwork by Mark Dion.
After a £3million renovation project, The Storey Creative Industries Centre (SCIC) is what Lancaster has been longing for; The building where art and industry spark. The SCIC contains a theatrical auditorium, lecture theatre, tasting gardens, rentable offices, workshop spaces and meeting rooms - giving room to house all the many different events covered throughout the year.
With the NICE café bar & restaurant on the ground floor, providing a cosy courtyard with which to take your drinks on, this building really does provide Lancaster, and the whole of the North West with a creative platform from which to work.
50 North Road Lancaster
England LA1 1LT UK
Tel: +44 (0)1524 68014 Fax: +44 (0)1524 68013
Local art shop and gallery
- "Our Gallery features a wide selection of self published Limited
Edition Prints and originals." Features arts, crafts, graphics,
gallery and art materials.
The
Sultan of Lancaster Art Gallery displays work by local and international
artists on a regular basis as well as a thought-provoking
insight into art inspired by Islamic values and principles. The gallery also contains a spacious
Booker-award winning food court and is a lovely place to eat or
take a coffee.
"We combine a diverse collection
of art from some of the finest collectable artists with handcrafted
framing. Our selection includes the finest figurative, landscape,
sporting and contemporary work. We try to make collecting art easy.
We offer many services including home viewing, free delivery and
you can even spread the cost over 3 months."
Alexandra Gallery, Alexandra
Building, University of Cumbria,
Bowerham Road Lancaster LA1 3JD
Tel: +44 (0) 1524 384312
Open Mon - Fri: 9am-5pm. Free.
At weekends and holidays viewing is by arrangement
(07793 200542).
email info@cumbriaarts.co.uk If you want to find out more about studying Art at the
University of Cumbria, visit the website at www.cumbria.ac.uk
or call 08080 024 024.
c/o Bar-Eleven, 60-62 Church Street, Lancaster, LA1 1LH
Opening hours: Fri / Sat: 1pm - 6pm or by appointment.
Email: vaultgallery[AT]gmail.com
VAULT provides an exciting new show every calendar month, with a preview the first Thursday of the month.
It is situated beneath Café-Bar Eleven, free entrance through the bar.
VAULT Gallery is an artist-led exhibition space designed for emerging contemporary artists working in any medium. Supporting emerging contemporary artists by providing accessible and affordable exhibition space, the VAULT is run entirely by volunteers and admission is free to the general public. It is a non-profit organisation
The award-winning building
Ruskin Library holds the world's largest collection of material
relating to the great writer, artist and social critic John Ruskin
(1819-1900).
now on
The
History Of Hest Bank Wharf The Hest Bank Hotel
Shifting channels and sands have suddenly exposed the stonework
of this nineteenth century wharf. A further shift could lead to
its being buried again - possibly for ever! Exhibition of images
and artefacts at the Hest Bank Hotel, by arrangement with the Slyne-with-Hest
Local History group, relating to this once key - and now almost
forgotten - feature of the village life and economy.
12 Main Street, Kirkby Lonsdale, Cumbria LA6
2AE
Tel: 015242 73747
Email: info@finestragallery.co.uk
Open Mon - Sat: 10am to 5pm, Sun: 11am - 5pm.
Late night opening each Thursday in December. Free.
In addition to the free exhibitions listed below, there is a continuous
display of original paintings, contemporary glass, jewellery and
furniture on show at the gallery.
Contemporary and traditional
artwork is available by comission or just simply come and visit
the studio and browse in my gallery on the first floor. My studio
is available for other local artists to exhibit a selection of artwork,
at my discretion, for a set fee. We also stock limited edition prints,
hand crafted, locally made silver jewellery and Charles Rennie-Macintosh
style silver jewellery.
'We make the experience of buying Modern art a pleasurable
one, either by purchasing our paintings directly from our gallery,
or commissioning your own style of artwork.'
Image: Coffee Lounge Art No 1 by Kevin Pearson.
Poulton Heritage
Group Display Case. Some items of historic interest such
as share certificates for the Winter Gardens and the West End pier;
there are also souvenir programmes and a collection of china, porcelain
and bottles.
MORECAMBE
PROMENADE
The City Council and the
RSPB have commissioned work from local primary schools, which has
been made into 'globos' projecting images onto the pavement after
dark. The winning selection of images come from St Peters CP School,
Morecambe Bay CP School and Morecambe Rd CP School - their entries
for the Tern public art project.
MORECAMBE
COMMUNITY SHOP
Yorkshire
St, Morecambe
Opening times are 10am to 4pm Mon-Friday. Info tel: 01524 413064.
Perm.
Photography by Rob Daniels Morecambe Community Shop, Part of the Folly Contact
Scheme. Rob Daniels has two bodies of work showing at the space,
An Aesthetic Evaluation of the Cooling Tower and Six Works on Water,
both of which are abstract but also beautiful and accessible.
Mona House, 1 Deansgate St, Morecambe LA4 5LZ
(behind the Bradford Arms on Queen St).
tel: Joe Cowell 01524 410361
Email: joecowell@hotmail.com
qsand is the name given to a collective of artists who are based at Mona house which owned and being currently restored by the heritage trust of the northwest. Mona house which adjoins the Bradford arms is situated within the historic part of morecambe known as Poulton. Just like Poulton, qsand, now under new management, is currently undergoing both restoration and rejuvenation. Gone are the days of knitted christmas cards, we at qsands are hoping to push away ideas of the past and move the group forward to more exciting ventures associated with art within the community. Currently on the look out for fresh artistic talent to join. qsand is looking once more to put ourselves on the map by holding exciting exhibitions in the coming months - hoping to bring back Mona House back to life with creativity.
Miklos Bansaghi Fine Art
8 Wyresdale Road, Lancaster, LA1 3EA
Tel: 01524 383408
Mob: 07939159942
email: mbansaghi@gmail.com
Research, examination, restoration, conservation and sale of European Paintings (from Old Masters to 20th century) and sculptures. 16 years of experience ranging from the Canadian National Gallery to the well known Grassi Studio in New York City. Rare combination of two master's degrees in the field of fine art conservation, one in sculpture, and one in paintings conservation. Experience in architectural restoration. Member of the International Institute for Conservation (IIC). Museum quality restoration, Lancaster and London locations, free estimates.
Donald
Taylor www.donaldtaylor.org.uk/gallery Donald Taylor's online gallery features work by several
artists from this area and all around the UK.
Wolf House Gallery Gibraltar, Silverdale, Carnforth LA5 0TX
Tel/Fax: 01524 701405
Open April to December, daily ex Mon: 10:30am - 5:30pm.
Surrounded by ancient woodlands, wells and coastal meadows this
uniquely beautiful and tranquil place attracts visitors from far
and wide, while regular visitors and local people drop in for a
coffee or a light lunch and to see what's new in the fantastic collection
of both traditional and contemporary arts and crafts.
.Permanent
Landscape,
Natural and Still Life Photography by Jeff Woodman in
the Jeff Woodman Hallway, Stairs + Landing Gallery, Regent St, Lancaster.
Viewing by appt. No parking for coaches, sorry. tel: 01524 33410.
Check out our Location
Maps for most places in and around town.
N.B. Images on the web have a maximum resolution of 72dpi and a limited colour range. The average holiday snap is several thousand times better quality - so sadly, images of artists' work shown here are just vague shadows of the real thing - which will generally be a lot bigger, have much richer detail and colour tones and, well, reallness. Go to the shows and see for yourself!
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'We make the experience of buying Modern art a pleasurable
one, either by purchasing our paintings directly from our gallery,
or commissioning your own style of artwork.'
