Exhibitions

Great ideas?  Good business skills? Passion for visual art and craft?

Yorkshire Artspace has today announced a thirty day period for individuals and/or organisations to submit an expression of interest in running a commercial gallery at Persistence Works as a stand alone business but with a mutually supportive relationship with our charitable organisation.

Expressions of Interest should be emailed to kate@artspace.org.uk and make reference to the Vision for the gallery (below) in relation to both your previous experience and your ideas.  The deadline for receipt of emails is 5pm on 27th March 2012.  The gallery can be viewed by appointment between 10am and 4pm, Monday to Friday.

In 2011 we ran two selling shows in the gallery at Persistence Works, 'Prints and Ceramics in the City' in partnership with Gallery Top in Rowsley and 'PW10' showcasing the work of 32 of Yorkshire Artspace's 94 studio holders. Gross sales for PW10 were £5,700 with 55 items sold and 334 visitors over 19 days (outside the November Open Studios event which attracted an additional 900 visitors).  There are images of previous shows in the space above to give an idea of the space - 'White' Penny Withers and Neil Woodall, 'Come up to my place and live it up' Emilie Taylor, 'Prints & Ceramics in the City' and 'PW10'.

The gallery is prominently situated at the prow of this award winning building in Sheffield's Cultural Industries Quarter, a stone's throw from both the station, the retail centre and the gallery/theatres quarter.  Close neighbours include Site Gallery, the Showroom Cinema, Sheffield Hallam University and SIA Gallery, the BBC and the Workstation.

The gallery is a triple height, 90 sq m  space with full height windows across the full length of the Brown Street facade, 6.94m. The ceiling height is 5.59m except to the curved canopy area.  There is a main entrance direct from Brown Street and a secured connecting door to the studios Atrium.  The heating is from ceiling mounted fans.  There are 7 floor socket s and 4 wall sockets.  There is a wall of storage cupboards.  The finish is very high with a slate floor with bonded gravel detail.

Vision for the Yorkshire Artspace Gallery

·         Showing contemporary visual art and craft for sale.

·         Exciting, high quality content and professional presentation.

·         Showing an element of high profile work.

·         Showing the work of emerging and established artists makers.

·         Having a sense of context within our creative production space.

·         Attractive to a variety of audiences.

·         Demonstrating exemplary sales and marketing skills.

·         Potential to make a financial contribution to Yorkshire Artspace once established.

·         Well managed and well run and open regularly and consistently.