Storey Gallery is an independent artist-centred publicly-funded gallery. It commissions, promotes, and presents a programme of challenging contemporary visual art by nationally and internationally significant artists.

The programme includes exhibitions, installations, residencies, talks, discussions, projects in the public realm, practical workshops and professional development sessions. Education, learning, and participation are integral to all activities. The Gallery encourages participants, particularly young people, to engage with artistic practice and to develop their own creativity and reflective skills.

All aspects of the programme aim to foster and stimulate critical thought, debate, and reflection, both about contemporary art practice and a wider range of intellectual and social issues.

The Storey Gallery was started in 1991 by a group of Lancaster-based artists and is run by people who all are, or have been, practising artists. This staffing and ethos gives a very flexible and artist-centred approach to all activities, and provides close support for artists working with the Gallery.

Storey Gallery provides access for local residents to a broad range of high quality contemporary visual art. Visitors have welcomed and appreciated this provision, praising the delivery of, and access to, such a high quality programme outside the major urban centres. It has attracted many people to visit Lancaster, and has been cited as a reason by individuals relocating to the area.

The Gallery is now a significant cultural asset for the district. It plays a key role in the pattern of visual arts provision, not only in North Lancashire and South Lakeland, but also in the North West region. It is becoming a gallery with a national and international reputation, and a prime visitor destination.

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