Promoting Creative Exchange.
Gallery No.32 is an artist-led outdoor art space in SE London. Championing creative exchange, Gallery No.32 offers a free exhibition space for artists to explore the broadest possibilities of their practice whilst minimising financial risk. Free to show and free to view, art is offered to new audiences directly in the public realm, upturning the typical white-wall model. By taking artists out of the institution and placing them in the public landscape, Gallery No.32 is altering how art is seen, and who art is for, digging the tracks for a new art-world. Through opportunity, connection and access, Gallery No.32 is rewilding the art scene from its [grass]roots.
By encouraging participatory and site-specific exhibitions, artists directly engage with the challenges and differences that become apparent within the public realm. The public engage with the work in a new way, that is far from the limiting experience of the institution.
Gallery No.32 is at the height of the grassroots creative scene, championing talent by presenting artists at various stages of their career alongside the work of celebrated UK and international sculptors. Alongside this project, an indispensable network is building that provides support, and acts as a springboard for those involved.
The projects undertaken at Gallery No.32 support artists at any stage of their career or practice, promoting and heralding inclusivity and accessibility for all.
By encouraging participatory and site-specific exhibitions, artists directly engage with the challenges and differences that become apparent within the public realm. The public engage with the work in a new way, that is far from the limiting experience of the institution.
Gallery No.32 is at the height of the grassroots creative scene, championing talent by presenting artists at various stages of their career alongside the work of celebrated UK and international sculptors. Alongside this project, an indispensable network is building that provides support, and acts as a springboard for those involved.
The projects undertaken at Gallery No.32 support artists at any stage of their career or practice, promoting and heralding inclusivity and accessibility for all.
Gallery No.32 was born in June 2020, during the first national lockdown in the UK in response to 3 pressing factors;
- The closure of galleries meaning there was no art to see, less art to make and less creativity to feed minds.
- The lack of financially viable opportunity for emerging artists.
- The hierarchic system of exchange within the art world.
Since its beginning in 2020, Gallery No.32 has so far produced over 15 self-funded, free to view exhibitions. In addition to this portfolio, Meg Stuart and Kieran Idle have facilitated creative projects with a host of local groups, community enterprises and charities.
Gallery No.32 will always offer a free to apply, free to show, free to view exhibition space to artists and creatives. In providing a free exhibition space, we are providing artists with the opportunity to take risks. Set against the unaffordable premiums of the art scene, this is an incredibly valuable chance to actualise ambitious ideas without financial consequence.
Gallery No.32 will always offer a free to apply, free to show, free to view exhibition space to artists and creatives. In providing a free exhibition space, we are providing artists with the opportunity to take risks. Set against the unaffordable premiums of the art scene, this is an incredibly valuable chance to actualise ambitious ideas without financial consequence.
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Megan Stuart, Co-Director and Developer of Gallery No.32:
'We are DIY artists creating our own opportunities, not waiting for the system to answer them; it’s getting much busier as DIY is becoming more of a necessity. The response we have had so far to the gallery is direct proof of this and it's incredibly exciting.’ |
Kieran Idle, Co-Director and Developer of Gallery No.32:
‘Why start small? – there’s less limitation, less constriction and more scope to explore and experiment. Small gets in the gaps.' |
Header Image: Patrick Colhoun - Always Watching Over You, (2020) Installation exhibited at Gallery No.32 in London, Bexley.