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ANGEL ROW GALLERY
Angel Row Gallery is a dedicated contemporary art space, located
on the first-floor of Nottingham's Central Library and offering an increasingly ambitious programme
of exhibitions, events, activities and audience development projects.
The gallery is run by Nottingham City Council and receives additional
revenue funding (Fixed Term Funding) from East Midlands Arts. It is part of Nottingham Museums
& Galleries Service, currently within the Museums, Libraries & Information Division of the Department
of Leisure & Community Services.
The
gallery's accommodation in the Central Library comprises: - Approx
300 square metres of gallery space, divided into
three, sometimes four, areas and entered either from inside the library on the first floor or from its
own separate entrance with stairs from street level (the 'Foyer' - also used for exhibitions relating
to the main spaces or as an extension of the exhibition in the main spaces). The gallery has a
reception desk and (limited) sales area.
- Four storage areas, of varying size, including temporary storage for
artworks, a store for catalogues/shop stock and a store for educational materials.·A fully-equipped
technician's workshop (adjacent to the building's loading bay).·An office for seven full-time staff
(including an area for meetings).
- A fully-equipped technician's workshop (adjacent to the building's loading
bay).
- ·An office for seven full-time staff (including an area for meetings).·
The gallery is given limited access to library meeting rooms,
the largest of which can be booked for large group visits (schools workshops, etc).
Gallery visitors also have access to the library's facilities
- including lifts, toilets and nappy changing room - during library opening hours (so are not accessible
on Saturday afternoons when the Library is closed). These facilities, along with the overall maintenance
of the building, are managed by the Library.
Angel Row Gallery’s programme is divided into approximately six
'slots' per year and the gallery closes for 7-14 days between each slot for exhibition installation.
An access, education and audience development programme is organised
alongside the exhibitions programme and is key to the gallery's work as a whole. It includes a
public programme of talks, events and workshops, as well as work with the formal education sector and
specific outreach and audience development projects.
Other smaller, but nevertheless, key areas of Angel Row Gallery's
work are publishing and distribution (exhibition catalogues: approx 4-5 per annum); sales (both of works
of art/craft and cards, magazines, publications); advisory work (emerging artists, volunteers, people
seeking careers in galleries, other organisations and professionals etc).
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