We offer artists a unique opportunity to make work in-situ at Bank Street as opposed to just temporarily hanging work on the gallery walls. As part of our Residency Programme or by simple informal agreement artists are free to make their mark and help contribute to the idea of the whole building as an evolving gallery space.
Ken Horne
Bank Street’s first Artist In Residence created this facade for the cafe out of waste materials unearthed while he was assisting us with building work in the centre.
Artist’s Book Collection
We have a growing collection of artist’s books from makers around the world. These are soon to be placed on permanent display in our Education space and can currently be viewed at any time by appointment. They are available to individuals, groups etc. for reference, seminars, critiques or just to simply browse through at leisure.
Paul Matosic
Artist In Residence Paul Matosic created a large scale installation using scrap timber and old maps in one of the empty galleries in 2009 and later re-installed a smaller version of the work elsewhere in the centre.
Mikk Murray
Mikk just popped in and asked us if he could do some painting in the Centre and we thought it was a good idea.
Bryan Eccleshall
As part of his residency at Bank Street Arts, Bryan painted a mural on one of the gallery walls which was then hidden when new gallery walls were built inside the existing structure. The mural depicted a missing painting and a plaque now records the presence and absence of the missing painting of the missing painting!
Textile Collection
Textile artist, Nicola Smalley, put out an open call to designers to send in their fabric designs to recover the ‘tub-chairs’ in our cafe. The winning fabrics by Genevieve Browne, Jennifer D’Eugenio, Laura Footman and Joanna Januszajtis were printed by Cassie Limb, studio holder at Bank Street Arts and upholstered by Nicola herself and are without doubt the most comfortable of our Permanent works. Special thanks go to Graces’ Fabrics at Castle Market in Sheffield for supplying the fabric.
Coming soon – new works by Ann Rook, Claire Tindale, Lorna Barrowclough, Katherine Johnson, Laura Potter and Ken Horne
