These galleries and venues show the work of mainly early or mid career artists and craftspeople. Some will still not, however, accept unsolicited applications, and you would be well advised to contact them individually to enquire how they can be approached. Best of all would be to visit the galleries you are interested in to see first-hand how they operate, and to talk to members of staff.
There is further information on approaching galleries in this section.
194-198 Railton Rd, Herne Hill, London SE24 0LU - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7978 8309
Fax: 020 7652 1418
Email: gallery@198gallery.co.uk
Website: www.198gallery.co.uk
198 Gallery provides education and training resources. Contemporary art by artists from diverse cultural backgrounds, wide range of media including new technologies. Gallery space for hire. Commissioning service. Wheelchair accessible.
Listing ID: 421
27 Arcola Street, London E8 2DJ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7503 1646
Email: info@theagencygallery.co.uk
Website: www.arcolatheatre.com
The Arcola Theatre organises exhibition on varied themes. Although the gallery showcases mostly paintings and photographs special arrangements can be made for other types of work.
Listing ID: 424
59a Bethwin Rd, London SE5 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7701 0100
Email: antonio@blueelephanttheatre.co.uk
Website: www.blueelephanttheatre.co.uk
Small gallery part of the Blue Elephant Theatre.
Listing ID: 429
Level 5, Sherfield Building, Imperial College, Exhibition Road London SW7 2 AZ - Google Maps
Mindy Lee
Email: gallery@imperial.ac.uk
Website: www.re-title.com/exhibitions/BlythGallery.asp
Blyth Gallery is an artists' run project space at Imperial College. Open to proposals from emerging London Based artists. There are 5 shows a year.
Listing ID: 430
49-59 Old Street, London EC1V 9HX - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7251 6114
Email: art@cabinetltd.demon.co.uk
Listing ID: 431
47 Great Eastern Street, London, EC2A 3HP - Google Maps
Beulah Davies
Tel: 020 7613 5727
Gallery founded by Julie Brown of photography agency M.A.P and Andrew Waugh of Waugh Thistleton Architects. As the name suggests, CuratorSpace centres on curatorial practice. Somewhere between a space run by curators and a commercial gallery, it provides a meaningful collaboration between curator and artist. Proposals are sought from curators in the broadest sense of the word. Innovative approaches to installation and display are welcomed, as are those that promote the work of new and emerging artists. A programme of monthly changeovers ensures a plurality of ideas and a wide range of exhibiting artists, while the gallery's selection process - valuing diversity, creativity and quality - provides continuity throughout.
Listing ID: 437
140 Vaughan Road, Harrow, Middlesex HA1 4EB - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8357 2924
Website: www.foveagallery.co.uk
Fovea gives contemporary artists, working in any medium, an opportunity to show in a dedicated space.
Listing ID: 444
22/27 The Oval, Bethnal Green, London E2 9DT - Google Maps
Maxine Shannon
Email: gonetomorrowgallery@hotmail.co.uk
Website: www.gonetomorrowgallery.co.uk
The Gone Tomorrow Gallery promotes emerging artists at the start of their career and aims to be a catalyst in the career development of artists. Proposals are sometimes accepted.
Listing ID: 446
16-18 Paddington Street, London W1M 4AS - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7487 5060
Website: www.helleniccentre.org/index.htm
The Hellenic Centre, founded as a charity in 1994, has the complementary aims of providing a focus for the Hellenic community and promoting an awareness of Hellenic Culture in the UK. The London conference venue offers a programme of exhibitions, lectures, concerts and cultural events and Greek language courses
Listing ID: 448
Raymond Burton House, 129-131 Albert Street, London NW1 7NB - Google Maps
While the new Jewish Museum is under development, the Museum offices will be based at: 4 Shakespeare Road, London N3 1XE
Tel: 020 7284 1997
Email: admin@jmus.org.uk
Website: www.jewishmuseum.org.uk
The Jewish Museum is undertaking a major expansion and will re-open in 2009.
Listing ID: 451
Unit 7, Brighton House, Brighton Terrace, London SW9 8DJ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7738 7841
Website: www.londonprintworks.com
A specialist textile printing resource with a technical support. London Printworks Trust stimulates cross-disciplinary and culturally diverse projects through mounting a programme of contemporary art, craft and design commissions with artists and designers, using both the resource and public spaces. The trust often works in partnership with other organisations regionally, nationally and internationally and also runs an education programme providing opportunities for the acquisition of new skills in printed textiles.
Listing ID: 454
Menier Chocolate Factory, 51 Southwark Street, London SE1 1RU - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7407 3222
Fax: 020 7403 7721
Website: www.paintingsinhospitals.org.uk
Owned and managed by Paintings in Hospitals.
Listing ID: 456
61 Westminster Bridge Rd, London SE1 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7450 9226
Fax: 020 7298 4074
Email: gallery@morleycollege.ac.uk
Website: www.morleycollege.ac.uk
Morley Gallery opened in 1968 as part of the Arts Centre in Morley College for part-time Adult Education. The Gallery committee meets formally once a year to select work for the following year. The committee considers all applications and from them select a short-list. It is also possible to have group exhibitions. The committee decides the space allocated to each artist.
Listing ID: 458
Rosebery Avenue, London EC1 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7863 8114
Website: www.sadlerswells.com
Exhibition venue in the foyer of Sadler's Wells theatre.
Listing ID: 470
77 Broadway Market, London Fields, London E8 4PH - Google Maps
Alan Bond
Mobile: 07808 166 215
Email: info@sevenseven.org.uk
Website: www.sevenseven.org.uk
Seven Seven is a not for profit gallery, with strong international links, showing emerging and established artists. Artists and curators predominately show via invitation, however some slots are kept open specifically for new proposals.
Listing ID: 471
384-386 Lee High Road, London SE12 8RW - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8318 4040
Fax: 020 8318 4040
Website: www.starkgallery.com
Gallery with a twin location in Canterbury. Also offer bespoke framing service.
Listing ID: 474
67 Clapton Common, London E5 9AA - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8880 5507
Email: on@thecentreofattention.org
Website: www.thecentreofattention.org
The Centre of Attention has no fixed premises and though many of the early shows took place at 15 Cotton's Gardens, (Shoreditch, London) most have been presented in different venues across London and internationally.
Pierre Coinde and Gary O'Dwyer are Directors.
Listing ID: 477
84-86 Great Eastern Street, London EC2A 3JL - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7739 6900
Website: www.foundry.tv
Busy bar near Old Street tube station, owned by ex-members of the KLF. Displays contemporary art in a small gallery downstairs.
Listing ID: 479
74 High Street, Oxford OX1 4BG - Google Maps
Tel: 01865 276 944
Fax: 01865 276 949
Website: www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/About/lab.php
Website: www.ruskin-sch.ox.ac.uk/Research/Laboratory/
Listing ID: 480
181 - 183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8983 9737
Tel: 020 8980 7774
Fax: 020 8980 7770
Email: mbaettig@bowarts.com
Website: www.bowarts.org/thenunnery/index.php?code=41
The Nunnery is part of the Bow Arts Trust and is a contemporary project gallery. The gallery initiates and develops projects that reflect and address issues in contemporary art, and in doing so, works with a range artists, curators, writers and arts organisations.
Listing ID: 481
The Verger's Cottage, St. Mary of Eton Church,
Eastway, London E9 5JA - Google Maps
Ingrid Z
Tel: 020 8986 2324
Email: info@residence-gallery.com
Website: www.residence-gallery.com
The Residence is committed to exhibiting contemporary art by emerging and newly established artists, encouraging challenging ideas and experiments. Accepting proposals for the shop (magazines / t-shirts / bags / badges / small works).
Listing ID: 482
44 Bonner Rd, London E2 9JS - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8983 4115
Email: tellmemore@theshowroom.org
Website: www.theshowroom.org
The Showroom presents a programme of contemporary art focusing on the overlap between visual and live art. The gallery commissions new work, often from lesser-known artists, and organizes public talks and events to accompany exhibitions. Send proposal to Kirsty Ogg with copies of work.
Listing ID: 483
Unit 25 Regents Studios, 8 Andrews Road, London E8 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7254 4202
Mobile: 07941 208566
Website: www.transitiongallery.co.uk
The gallery is run by artist Cathy Lomax and shows work by both emerging and established contemporary artists.
Listing ID: 485
Tricycle Theatre, 269 Kilburn High Road, London NW6 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7328 1000
Fax: 020 7328 0795
Email: gallery@tricycle.co.uk
Website: www.tricycle.co.uk
The Tricycle Gallery selects ten exhibitions each year for a program of contemporary visual arts in a variety of traditional and new media. Exhibitions are chosen through our open submission once a year.
Listing ID: 486
20 Fordham Street, London E1 1HS - Google Maps
Mobile: 07748 235428
Email: info@whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk
Website: www.whitechapelprojectspace.org.uk
Open Sat - Sun 1-6pm
Listing ID: 490
Derbyshire Street, London E2 6HG - Google Maps
Terre Brock-Davis, Arts Administrator
Tel: 020 7739 9001
Fax: 020 7729 0435
Email: terre.brockdavis@oxfordhouse.org.uk
Website: www.oxfordhouse.org.uk
The arts team manages a programme of Somali cultural events and work with a team of studio artists based at Oxford House who are supported in exchange for work with and for the community. Oxford House also offer a Citizen Advice Bureau every Tuesday afternoon.
Listing ID: 508
209a Coldharbour Lane, London, SW9 8RU - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7326 0993
Email: redgategallery@hotmail.com
Website: www.redgategallery.co.uk
Red Gallery was founded in 1998 as a non-profit making organisation. It not only hosts regular events/exhibitions, but also has studios on site. Located within Loughborough Junction, the Gallery aims to raise the awareness and profile of all arts also within the area.
Listing ID: 615
104 Cromer Street, London WC1H 8BZ - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7278 4404
Fax: 020 7278 4404
Email: info@scarletmaguire.com
Website: www.scarletmaguire.com
Established independent art gallery in central London. 600 sq ft and 35 linear meters of hanging space with clip rail hanging system on 2 floors. Hire occasionally available.
Listing ID: 616
112-116 Old Street, London EC1C 9BG - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7336 0766
Fax: 020 7366 0966
Website: www.dazeddigital.com
Listing ID: 809
425 Harrow Road, London W10 4RE - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8969 3247
Fax: 020 8964 0008
Minicom: 020 8964 8271
Email: info@londonprintstudio.org.uk
Website: www.londonprintstudio.org.uk
London Print Studio is an open access workshop space for printmakers, incorporating a gallery and digital resource. They offer short courses and one-to-one tuition in etching, screenprinting and lithography. Also provides some training through the digital resource, mainly software.
Listing ID: 1883
94 Webster Road, London SE16 - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7237 9120
Email: mail@colemanprojects.org.uk
Website: www.colemanprojects.org.uk
Open Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm
Listing ID: 2277
92 Hoxton Street, London N1 6LP - Google Maps
Rebecca May Marston
Tel: 020 7729 8173
Email: rebecca@associatesgallery.co.uk
Website: www.associatesgallery.co.uk
Associates is a non-profit gallery occupying the former STORE gallery on Hoxton Street, initiated and directed by artist Ryan Gander. A one-year project of twelve solo exhibitions by artists who have not previously had a solo show in London, Associates offers the artists 100% of their sales profits.
Listing ID: 2301
C4RD, 2-4 Highbury Station Road, London N1 1SB - Google Maps
Email: info@c4rd.org.uk
Website: www.c4rd.org.uk
C4RD welcomes submissions from those with a particular interest in drawing as a core experience from within and outside the arts. Open Wednesday to Friday 12.30 - 5.30pm
Listing ID: 2302
6 Cyprus Street, London E2 0NN - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8983 0708
Email: info@wiebkemorgan.com
Website: www.wiebkemorgan.com
Listing ID: 2313
Unit 106, 301 Kingsland Road, London E8 4DS - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7272 0757
Email: info@rachmaninoffs.com
Website: www.rachmaninoffs.com
Listing ID: 2314
53A Old Bethnal Green Road, London E2 6QA - Google Maps
Email: email@generalhotel.org
Website: www.generalhotel.org
HOTEL began as an independent exhibition space located within the home of Darren Flook and Christabel Stewart, where exhibiting artists not located in London were invited to stay during the production period of their project. HOTEL is now located in the ground floor shop space of the same building.
Listing ID: 2320
74 Buttesland Street, London N1 - Google Maps
Email: info@dicksmithgallery.co.uk
Website: www.dicksmithgallery.co.uk
Listing ID: 2321
Unit 66 - 6th Floor, Regent Studios, 8 Andrews Street, London E8 - Google Maps
Email: info@fiveyears.org.uk
Website: www.fiveyears.org.uk
New space in the East End. Five Years previous space in Underwood Street operated between 1998 and 2002.
Listing ID: 2366
2-4 Tudor Road, London E9 7SN - Google Maps
Tel: 020 8986 2181
Email: keith.talent@tiscali.co.uk
Website: www.keithtalent.com
Also publish the magazine Miser and Now
Listing ID: 2473
43 Denmark Hill, London SE5 8SR - Google Maps
Email: info@gxgallery.com
Website: www.gxgallery.com
Listing ID: 2627
347 Beck Road (under the arch, off Mare St.), London E8 4RE - Google Maps
Email: info@formcontent.org
Website: www.formcontent.org
FormContent is a curatorial project space situated under a brick arch, on Beck Road, between London Fields and Mare Street. The urgency to tackle curating and the importance of developing a dialogue with the artists invited are at the core of FormContent's aim.
Listing ID: 2686
23 Charlotte Road, Shoreditch, EC2A 3PB - Google Maps
Christian Ferreira
Tel: 020 7033 3788
Mobile: 07792 531 226
Email: christian@ferreiraprojects.com
Website: www.ferreiraprojects.com
New gallery showcasing up-and-coming artists. The gallery is also for hire for a limited number of exhibitions per year.
Listing ID: 2775
31 Waterson Street, London E2 8HT - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7613 2636
Email: sandie.macrae@netgates.co.uk
Website: www.roomartspace.co.uk
ROOM opened in Bristol in April 2003 and moved to its current London base in 2007. Open Thursday - Sunday 12-6.
Listing ID: 3067
5 Nether Street, Tally Ho Corner, N12 0GA - Google Maps
Website: www.artsdepot.co.uk
The Apthorp gallery at 'artsdepot' exhibits the work of emerging and established artists in its annual series of eight professional exhibitions. The process of sourcing, selecting, curating and programming exhibitions for the gallery is overseen by 'artsdepot's' Visual Art Programmer.
Listing ID: 3314
52-54 Kennington Oval, London SE11 5SW - Google Maps
Email: debbie.vannozzi@ovalhouse.com
Website: www.ovalhouse.com
Oval House's Cafe Gallery space welcomes submissions from all artists, as well as from groups. Most exhibitions last for a month and are organised on a D.I.Y. basis. There is no fee to exhibit but they take 25% commission on anything you sell. Curator is Debbie Vannozzi.
Listing ID: 3603
Mother Studios, Queens Yard, White Post Lane E9 5EN - Google Maps
Website: www.elevatorgallery.co.uk
Open Thurs to Sunday 12-5pm
Listing ID: 3754
Main Yard, 90A Wallis Road, Hackney Wick, London E9 5LN - Google Maps
Tel: 020 7193 2880
Email: info@thewallisgallery.eu
Website: www.thewallisgallery.eu/info/about
The Wallis Gallery is a project space dedicated to creating an ongoing, reputable and critical showcase for undiscovered talent. The gallery space is a 5,000 square foot warehouse in Hackney Wick. It's lifetime is limited as it may be demolished as early as 2009 to make way for the 2012 Olympic Games' Media Centre.
Listing ID: 3755
21 Vyner Street, London E2 9DG - Google Maps
Email: info@ibidprojects.com
Website: www.ibidprojects.com
Listing ID: 3792