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Find out more

To find out more about any of the events listed on this page, or to book, please contact Harrogate Museums and Arts.

email

phone:01423 556188

fax: 01423 556130

Mercer Art Gallery,
Swan Road,
Harrogate,
HG1 2SA

or by calling in to any of our venues.

Our events are either free or very reasonably priced.  Payment is requested in advance.  Refunds by arrangement with more than 14 days' written notice.

If cancelling within the 14 day notice period, we regret that monetary refunds can only be guaranteed for payments over £10 due to the administrative costs involved.  If cancelling a booking for under £10 the monies spent can be held as payment towards a future event.


See our Visitor information for all Harrogate Borough Council run museums and galleries.

Mercer Art Gallery Events

All events are bookable in advance, unless otherwise stated.  Booking is advised due to limited capacity. 
 
Gabriele Koch - Ceramics
 Friday 24th October 2pm

£5Ceramics by Gabriele Koch
 
Mercer Art Gallery
 
Illustrated talk by artist Gabriele Koch about thedevelopment of her work, her practice and process.  Her work is on show at the gallery. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
Thoughts on Abstraction
 
 Thursday 30th October 2pm
 
£5

Mercer Art Gallery
 
Work by Simon Crawford 
Gallery talk and presentation by artists Simon Crawford and John Creighton, two local abstract painters on show in Into Abstraction.
 
The artists will discuss their work and studio practice and the wider concept of abstract art.
 
Into Abstraction - Curator's Choice
 Thursday 27th November 2pm

£4
 
Mercer Art GalleryTangled Pool 1948 by Ivon Hitchens (1893-1979)

Gallery talk by Curator of Art, Jane Sellars.  Find out how this exhbition was put together, and hear about Jane's favourite paintings, including works by Patrick Heron and Ivon Hitchens.
 

 

Urban Evolution
 Thursday 26th February 2pm


£5
 
Mercer Art Gallery
 
Gallery talk by Anne Desmet on her exhibition on show at the Mercer inspired by the restoration of Manchester's Victoria Baths.
 
Anne is one of the most original talents in contemporary printmaking with a passion for architecture and buildings.
 
 
Seeing in the Night Time - Victoria Brookland's paintings
 
 Thursday 19th March 2pm
 
£5

Mercer Art Gallery
 
 Painting by Victoria Brookland
Meet artist Victoria Brookland as Jane Sellars, Curator of Art, interviews her about her work on show at the Mercer.
 
Her paintings explore the power of the domestic interior as a setting for images of enclosure and escape, and how women poets have looked for freedom from restrictive lives through their own creativity and imagination
 
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