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2012 EXHIBITIONS ...



WELCOME!

19 May 2012

Welcome to the website for
Pop-Atelier, a new gallery - and new type of gallery - set up in Winchester to serve the various creative and artistic communities - professional and otherwise - of the city and surrounding towns and villages ...


The gallery, at 44 STOCKBRIDGE ROAD, WINCHESTER (right next to the railway station) - was launched on April 21st.  Because of the way the gallery works there is a guaranteed monthly change to the array of works available - which is brilliant for the buyer, of course - and means that appointments for submissions continue as a matter of course.

Work is invited from any of the arts media, from drawing and painting, calligraphy, photography, ceramics and sculpture, through to jewellery, embroidery, knitting and stained glass - any art you have to offer, indeed, whether yours or the work of another! 

Signed up so far ...

Chris Brown - Clare Goodman - 
Stuart Bundy - Trevor Burton -
Joan Willingham - Madeleine David - 
Georgina Hall - Stephen Boyce -
Sally Ingram - Kate Theodore - 
Kate Bartlett - Matt Watson - 
Jacqueline Rolls - Jo New - 
Louise Kydd - Gill Robinson - 
David Miles - Joey Lamb -
Clarissa Russell - Tom Lamb - 
David Sutcliffe - Graham Marsden - 
Jacqueline Edwards - Chris James -
Gill Richards - Juliet Verney -
Pedro Alves - Zoe Hemsley - 
Simon Mann - Craig Harvey - 
Annabel Lee - Ulla Munro - 
Nick @ Nanoo - Stephen Gould -
Adaliza - Gene Fearon - 
Becky Glaister - Maria Medstad - 
Arkadiusz Siarkowski - John Marshall -
Mark Dodd - Heidi Crocker -
Christine Marlow - Matt Chalk -
Stephen Gould - Martin Collis -
Edvin Adam - Andy Linaker -
Catherine Macintosh - George Finch -
Kristina Richards - Stephen Cook - 
Judith Handford - Eileen Sey -
Ian Temple - Phillip Lumley-Smith -
Vivienne Smith - Michael Laws -
Jakob Belbin - Tom Hunt -
Deborah Savage - Geoff Cruttenden -
Keith Pattison - Renate West -
Mark Lloyd - Sarah Potts -
Roger Francis - James Roney -
Alex Hoare - Elizabeth Weir -
Billie Davis - Ron Allen -
Ian Dorsett - Vivienne Smith -
Becky Glaister - Paul Wearn -
Victoria Atkinson - Katherine Bell - 
Lucy Pick - Caroline Tollyfield -
Andrea Arengo-Jones ...  


HARD TIMES ... NEED ART ...

Just as every artist needs a room of their own, so too any creative community should have a space of its own where anyone and everyone can show and/or sell their work and it is in answer to this need that Pop-Atelier has been set up.  It is immensely frustrating for any creative artist – career or otherwise - to find they are piling up work with no hope of exhibition or sale. 

Where, normally, our City or County authorities might hope to be able to offer this community facility, these are hard times, as we all know, and the public purse is shrinking such that an ‘everyman’ gallery, as Pop-Atelier intends to be, if not in place now, is unlikely to be launched any time soon.  So, it seems that ‘popular’ authority must answer and we – the people - must do it for ourselves!


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Juliet Verney / MADAME GOOSE


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T H E  G A L L E R Y

One of the driving principles for the operation of the gallery is to seek to maximise the profit and minimise the cost for the artist – of whatever type, be they career professional or 'quiet' practitioner – and to meet with this variety of artistic ‘sources’, each with different and varying needs, an equal variety of contracts will have to evolve.
 

It is intended that, with support from the artistic communities that exist across the city, a range of contracts and costs can be developed that would effectively reward the seller/artist as well as ensure the continued self-funding of the gallery.


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Heart of Chaos

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The gallery is a proof-of-concept trial to see if such a business can work here.  Other cities do have 'self-supporting gallery' models, but these are then in general run by the artists themselves.  This could be something that emerges as being a workable option as a result of this experiment, so who knows?  First impression for now seems to be that artists are best left to concentrate on their art ...


More ...?

If you want to know more about the gallery - or the owner - there is a long article on the Hantsarts website (http://www.hantsarts.com/wordpress)
and an arts news article on the Cafe Culture website (http://cafeculture.org.uk/2011/04/04/pop-atelier-opens-this-month/)


ARTSPACE FOR ALL ...

It has been pointed out that the gallery could, in the evenings, offer useful space to a wide variety of possible users ... art classes, poetry readings, book groups, etc. 

If you are looking for an intimate venue within easy reach of the city and railway station do feel free to get in touch and discuss ...

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Mandelbrot geranium


If you are interested in getting your
work shown, have further questions
or want to make an appointment to
submit your work or other artwork for
sale, please feel free to call me -
Sally - on 01962 842188 
or you can e-mail via
pop-atwinch@hotmail.co.uk


I very much look forward to hearing from you!