Gallery Town is pleased and excited to announce that two new Directors have joined the board who will be helping to steer the project forward. Jamie Sharp, the Managing Director of MTL Advanced Ltd. (Rotherham) and Nick Alexander, the Chief Executive of the Rotherham Advertiser both bring a wealth of business knowledge to the project […] Read more

At the end of April the newest addition to the Gallery Town project was installed on College Walk in Rotherham town centre. The piece displays Richard Sayles winning image from the Gallery Town & Rotherham Advertiser competition ‘Views of Rotherham’. The image on display is of fire breather Dr Diablo performing at the RMBC Victorian […] Read more

In February Gallery Town delivered two artistic workshops at Blackburn Youth Club as part of a RotherFed funded initiative to help promote recycling and sustainable living. One of the workshops saw young people creating a mosaic for their youth club using recycled materials whilst the other saw youths create a large scale artwork promoting sustainable […] Read more

Here is the winning image for the Gallery Town & Rotherham Advertiser competition ‘Views of Rotherham’. The competition which started in 2016 recieved lots of fantastic entries from all across the borough. These were narrowed down to just three finalists including Lee Evans & Nigel Toohey who each won a framed copy of their photography. […] Read more

The Gallery Town project in Rotherham has used street art to help transform a precinct into a fun and vibrant area. Riverside Precinct in Rotherham town centre has only a handful of shops still open after being affected by the relocation of Tesco’s and the flow of shopper footfall and had become rundown. With lots […] Read more

You may have noticed in February that some of the Gallery Town artworks moved locations? Following the work carried out on Riverside Precinct some artworks that were previously on display in the underpass from Corporation Street were taken down. As they had not been weathered due to being protected by the overhanging building the works […] Read more

In January 2017 Gallery Town commissioned Sheffield Urban Artist Casper Kennedy Carr to create an artistic mural on an alleyway wall leading from the High Street to Rotherham Minster. The exterior wall of La Bella Lingerie shop was previously painted solid black and despite being a potentially exciting feature of the High Street looked uninviting. […] Read more

Rotherham regeneration project Gallery Town has generated a large model of Rotherham town centre and some of the boroughs iconic buildings, using recycled materials. The project Downtown Junk to Uptown Funk revolved around running workshops in some of the boroughs primary schools and working with children investigating sustainability and upcycling. The schools that took part […] Read more

Author of the world famous children’s book ‘The Gruffalo’ has donated an original work of art to help raise funds for Rotherham Hospice and the Gallery Town project in South Yorkshire. The image is of the Gruffalo and is drawn by Julia Donaldson and not its illustrator Axel Scheffler. The artwork is postcard sized (A5) […] Read more