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30th September – 22nd December 2023

Williamson Art Gallery & Museum

Slatey Road
Birkenhead
Wirral
CH43 4UE

The New Light Prize Exhibition launched at the Williamson Art Gallery, with final judging and announcing of the winners taking place on 29th September. Open to the public from 30th September 2023.

The Williamson Art Gallery & Museum is minutes from the heart of Birkenhead, on the edge of Oxton village. It opened to the public in 1928. The Williamson was funded through Birkenhead Borough Council by the philanthropists John Williamson, a Director of the Cunard Steamship Company Ltd, and his son Patrick Williamson.

The gallery displays include artworks, ceramics, sculptures, and maritime history. It is also home to the largest public collection of Della Robbia pottery in the UK and to some internationally important paintings.

Exhibitions at the Williamson Art Gallery & Museum are always free. It is centrally located and easily accessible by car and local transport, with free parking.

https://williamsonartgallery.org

27th February – 3rd March 2024

Bankside Gallery, Southbank

48 Hopton St
London
SE1 9JB

The New Light Prize Exhibition will be at Bankside Gallery for one week only. Bankside Gallery is the home of the Royal Watercolour Society (RWS), and the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers (RE). Together, they are proud to deliver a vibrant programme of exhibitions, workshops, talks and events celebrating the very best in contemporary water-based media and original prints, championing the work of both new and established artists.

https://www.banksidegallery.com

15th March – 2nd June 2024

Rheged Arts Centre, Penrith

Redhills
Penrith
CA11 0DQ

The New Light Prize Exhibition tours to its 3rd venue for 15 Mar – 2 Jun 2024.

Rheged was built by the Westmorland Family, the local family business behind Tebay Services on the M6.

It opened in 2000 close to the M6 at Penrith, a thriving market town between the Eden Valley and Northern Lake District. Built discreetly into a hillside with three-storey window overlooking an 18th-century lime kiln, Rheged has been cherished for two decades by locals and visitors alike.

The giant-screen cinema offers an immersive escape into the latest movies and live-streamed events from theatres and opera houses around the world. The gallery is a leading venue in our region for both touring and original exhibitions. The shops sell a collection of clothing, design and craft chosen for its provenance and beauty.

During 2020, the ground floor was redesigned, creating a relaxed and spacious new cafe and deli at the heart of Rheged. A new first-floor meeting space (with table service via an app) can be used flexibly for work or gathering socially, while new meeting rooms and work spaces on the second floor are coming soon.

 

https://rheged.com

29th June –  22nd September 2024

The Biscuit Factory, Newcastle

16 Stoddart Street
Newcastle upon Tyne
NE2 1AN

The Biscuit Factory is an independent art gallery, founded in 2002 and located in the cultural quarter of Newcastle, Ouseburn. A former Victorian biscuit manufacturing warehouse, The Biscuit Factory underwent a sympathetic refurbishment, ensuring that many of the original and characterful facets of the building such as the beams and brickwork were maintained. Adding an upper floor, accessible by a bespoke staircase, provided a treble height atrium that allows natural daylight to flood through the centre of the gallery and provides what is now our headline artist’s exhibition space. A number of artist studios were also developed on the lower 2 floors of the building housing 25 creative work spaces.

The ethos of the gallery has always been to provide a platform for local and national artists, to support emergent makers, to showcase established artists and to add to the cultural landscape of the region. The huge scale of the gallery means that it is able to display the work of over 250 artists at any time, with a team of Curators hand selecting work.

The business has also grown over the years in many exciting ways. The gallery launched its own charity; The Biscuit Factory Foundation; which aims to nurture and develop the careers of emerging artists. The business also boasts a number of hireable spaces, including a purpose-built function suite, The Biscuit Room, and design-led space Artisan, and the gallery also features an independent in-house cafe, The Factory Kitchen, with its own rooftop terrace.

 

https://www.thebiscuitfactory.com

12th October – 31st December 2024

The Mercer Art Gallery, Harrogate

31 Swan Rd
Harrogate
HG1 2SA

The New Light Prize Exhibition‘s final leg of the tour will return to the Mercer Art Gallery, where the first New Light Prize was awarded in 2011.

The Mercer Art Gallery opened in 1991 in the 200 year old Harrogate Promenade Rooms, one of Harrogate’s first purpose built spa buildings. In the Georgian period, more and more visitors flocked to Harrogate to take the ‘Harrogate Cure’, drinking and bathing in the town’s mineral waters. The Promenade Rooms provided an indoor space where visitors could socialise, opening on the 16th June 1806 with ‘some select pieces of music on the organ’. Well-to-do visitors could see and be seen: chatting to fellow well-drinkers, showing off their fashionable clothing and perhaps even looking for romance.

In 1839 the Promenade Rooms was renamed the Victoria Reading Rooms and Library, and used for public meetings and lectures. In 1875 -1900 it became a theatre, hosting many Victorian celebrities such as Lily Langtry, Sarah Bernhardt and Oscar Wilde. Later it became the Town Hall, and in the 1980s it was the rates and housing benefits office until it was reborn as the Mercer Art Gallery.

The Mercer replaced the first Harrogate Art Gallery that had opened in 1930 in a single room of a first-floor extension to Harrogate Library. As early as the 1950s there was talk of relocating the expanding art collection. A crisis point for the District’s art collection was reached in 1984 when several paintings from the collection were found lying in the flooded basement of the Royal Baths, so in 1985 work began on plans for a splendid new art gallery.

The gallery’s name comes from the water-colourist Sidney Agnew Mercer who lived most of his life in Yorkshire, whose sons gave £50,000 towards the new art gallery. Other magnificent funds came from the hard work of the Friends ofthe Mercer Art Gallery, English Heritage and Harrogate Borough Council.

 

https://www.visitharrogate.co.uk/business-directory/mercer-art-gallery

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