Galleries Live is the Visual Art Network project to create high street venues for art in Shropshire, Telford and Wrekin.
The Market Hall Art Gallery is run by volunteers from the charity The Visual Art Network and is part of their Galleries Live programme.
Opportunities
We are looking for members to exhibit in the gallery, who may wish to curate an exhibition, run a workshop or just put work in the browsers or cabinets to sell. Also volunteers are wanted to man the gallery and meet other artists and members of the public.
The gallery normally has 75 to 100 visitors on a Saturday so is an ideal venue to show your work to wider audience. Contact Keith on 07904908311 for information or email the address below.
Don't forget membership of the Visual Art Network gives you a free Artist Page on this website.
Email admin@vanetwork.co.uk
NAN “Go and See” bursary report for Visual Art Network 20/4/11
This report begins with a summary of the VAN Market Hall Gallery as it functions in 2011. This is followed by outline summaries of the three galleries visited in Birmingham, Stoke on Trent and Worcester, and resulting recommendations for future development of VAN Galleries Live Project.
Report is available as a PDF email admin@sculpturelogic.co.uk
Exhibitions at The Market Hall Art Gallery.
Shropshire Landscape Paintings By Diane Murr.
Tuesday 29th November to Saturday 10th December. Lunchtime Launch Saturday 3rd December. 12 to 2pm
This is the first exhibition of Shropshire born artist Diane who grew up on a farm near Cardington.
"I have always drawn inspiration from the beautiful Shropshire countryside. I count myself lucky to have easy access to the endless variety of shapes and colours to be found in the local landscape through the changing seasons and weathers, be it a springtime walk through Helmeth Wood in Church Stretton (the ‘Bluebells’ paintings), a mid-summer scramble up the sides of Carding Mill Valley (‘Twisted Trees’) or an October drive from Broome to Acton Burnell (‘Autumn Lawley’).
My heartfelt thanks go to Bobby Britnell and the ‘Girls’ at Moor Art 2 for their artistic advice and guidance. Without their encouragement and support, this exhibition would have remained a pipe dream."
Death and Life
Exhibition of photographs by Pat Jones
At The Market Hall Art Gallery.
25th October to 12 th November 2011
Launch Friday 28th October 1pm to 4pm
Open Space. Work in progress.
One week only 18 to 22 october.
Keith Ashford Video installation project. Videos of comercial spaces in central Shrewsbury filmed using moving mechanical systems.
Orrery. Aluminium frame, stepper motor and digital picture frame.
Chains
Sven Dahlberg. HMP Shrewsbury.
Until October 15th
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Peter Williams and Tony Stokes set up Sven's Exhibition.
AN EXHIBITION OF COLLAGE AND MONTAGE
IMAGES BY PETER WILLIAMS September 6th ---24th 2011
‘Paper, Scissors, Glue!’
CHEESE AND WINE OPENING 1.00 pm onwards
Saturday 10th September
The Gallery is on the top floor of the Market Hall
OPEN Tuesday/Wednesday/Friday/Saturday 10.00am—4.00pm
Peter works mainly with collage and montage, taking found objects, often paper
ephemera, and transforming them into pieces which have a real connection with the
place visited or remembered.
A keen traveller, his eye is drawn to the detail, dust and debris of the lands he
travels through and his works are an assembly of memories, thoughts and concrete
images joined by the items he has selected to mount inside the frame. The picture then
becomes more than just a depiction of a place, it is the place.
Throughout a long and interesting career in Special Education, Mental Health
and latterly in the Prison Service, Peter has always recognised the importance of self
expression and creative processes in helping those he has worked with; processes over
which they have full control and the elements of satisfaction and enjoyment in the
creative activity are generally found. In Peter's own work too there exists an element
of play and experimentation.
An eleven-plus failure, he left school at fifteen to work in a bank, where he
left before they could sack him, becoming a meat porter, debt collection clerk, play
scheme leader and volunteer worker with disabled children. This last opportunity led
to him applying to do a Cert. Ed, then a post-graduate diploma in Special Education, a
BA with the Open University in Architecture and Design and later still an Art
Psychotherapy MA. He has been married to Mary, a writer, for a long time now and
together they have four sons and two granddaughters and live in an inconvenient
cottage in Shropshire. A keen sportsman and committed family man, Peter's work
reflects the experiences and events he has witnessed during his lifetime; happily he is
willing to share these with us.
Train Journey
Alex Case. Exhibition of Photographs at the Market Hall Gallery
Launch event midday Saturday 20th August. Exhibition runs fromTuesday 16th August to Saturday 3rd September
"Ever since Muybridge's photographs of horses, photography has been fascinated by moving images or images from a moving camera. In both cases the camera sees what the eye cannot. Certainly the moving camera creates effects and compositions undreamt of by the photographer and very different from those taken by a camera that is still. The sense of movement creates not omly a sense of passing space but passing time: a fleeting glimpse, an evanescence."
The Whooshing Flowing Project by Poplar Class Woodfield School.
1st April to 16th April 2011 at the Market Hall Art Gallery
An exhibition of the Creative Partnership project at Woodfield school. Children from Poplar class explored the River Severn with video cameras and then made a model of the river to film. There were 151 visitors on Saturday 2nd April to the exhibition. A lunchtime workshop saw children make 28 model boats to sail down Poplar Class model River.
INSIDE STORY
an exhibition of Prison Art from
HMP Shrewsbury
Proceeds from the recent Market Hall Art Gallery Exhibition will be given to the charity “Fresh Start,
New Beginnings”, which helps released prisoners to begin a new life in the community.
Registered Charity No. 11030368
October 2010 at the Market Hall Art Gallery
To celebrate National Campaign for drawing "Big Draw" and Shrewsbury's "Love your Bike" month the gallery put on a number of drawing activities based around bikes and drawing incollaboration with Cycle Shrewsbury.
 
The gallery had over 600 visitors in October.
The Visual Arts Network
Galleries Live project at the Market Hall, Shrewsbury. Development of the project over the summer.
A model was made.
Some interesting ideas explored.
Conversion work under taken.
The development of the Market Hall Art Gallery has been supported by Sculpturelogic.
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