News — contemporary art

At last, we have a date for our gallery opening. Well, actually, we have three dates. You could say that we are doing things on a grand scale, but in all honesty, the space is quite small, so it fills quite quickly. And it would be nice to dedicate some time to chat with everyone who has made an effort to visit on what could be another wet and windy night, rather than the brief hello you manage at a wedding. With the date in the diary and mayor now invited, the behind the scene machine has now started. All...

Wow-what a week it's been. Since the lovely Ella Carty agreed to show her work at the gallery in April, we have had a string of enquiries and our 2020 exhibition schedule is gradually filling with some very talented artists. The whole process of attracting artists to supply work has opened up some interesting conversations concerning our vision for the gallery and our business ethics. It has also given us a unique insight into the process of exhibiting in galleries that we hadn't been party to before. Exclusivity and high gallery commissions seem to be amongst the biggest bugbears with the...

Well, it's been a week since we picked the keys up for the gallery and we've been busy renovating the spaces as we work towards a February opening.  It took quite a while to get the physical point of moving in, but we didn't sit on our laurels while we were witing. Confident that it was going to happen we set about designing our branding and creating a website. Luckily the team behind the Terrace Gallery have a lot of personal experience with design, content writing, photography and website creation, so it was easier for us than most start-ups. However,...