The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent

We created the gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent in 2013 as part of the Whole Story Project. This initiative reunited No.1 Royal Crescent with its original service wing in No.1a. It was generously funded by local supporter Andrew Brownsword.

From September 2024, the gallery will host a new programme of exhibitions under the name The Gallery at No.1 Royal Crescent.

The first exhibition is Being There. It showcases four recently acquired portraits by Thomas Gainsborough, alongside portraits by 18 contemporary British artists. Ingrid Swenson MBE has curated the show.

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Being There: selected images 

Celia Paul, Kate in White, 2009 Watercolour, pastel and ink on paper © Celia Paul. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Chantal Joffe, Esme and Gori, 2007 Oil on cardboard © Chantal Joffe. Courtesy the artist and Victoria Miro

Claudette Johnson Self Study (Blue Hat on Green), 2024 Oil pastel on paper © Andy Keate. Courtesy Hollybush Gardens.

Joy Labinjo, She is my wife and truly the best part, 2022 Oil on canvas © Joy Labinjo. Courtesy Tiwani Contemporary and the artist

Paul Graham, Television Potraits (Ryo, Japan), 1995 Colour coupler print © Paul Graham. Courtesy Anthony Reynolds and the artist

Thomas Gainsborough, Humphrey Tugwell c.1763. Oil on canvas © Dan Weill