The Storey Gallery is an independent artist-centred publicly-funded gallery. It commissions, promotes and presents a programme of contemporary visual art by nationally and internationally significant artists. The Gallery aims to nurture, commission and research innovative and challenging practice in visual art. All activity is centred around engagement with audiences, and aims to stimulate critical thought, debate and reflection.

The Storey Gallery is located in the Storey Institute, a grand nineteenth century building in the centre of Lancaster. The Gallery occupies one of the finest visual arts spaces in North West England, which is admired by artists and curators from across the UK.

The Storey Gallery has been established as a contemporary art gallery since 1991 and has delivered a high quality programme, including over 100 exhibitions.

The Storey Gallery aims to stimulate, challenge, involve and entertain visitors and artists alike. The programme is composed of a variety of strands which address audiences in different ways. It includes exhibitions, installations, residencies, talks, discussions, projects in the public realm, practical workshops and professional development sessions. All strands are interlinked and integrated. Education, learning, and participation are integral to all activities. The Gallery encourages participants, particularly young people, to engage with art and artistic practice, contributing to the meaning and value of the art process, and developing their own creativity and reflective skills. All aspects of the programme aim to foster and stimulate critical debate and reflection about contemporary art practice and a wider range of intellectual and social issues.

The whole Storey Institute building has recently been refurbished to become a centre for creative industries. The Storey Gallery is exploring a variety of opportunities created by this new context, including the potential to become a research organisation. As the first step, Storey Gallery initiated a research project with Lancaster University into the potential for collaboration and synergy between a publicly funded arts organisation and commercial creative businesses for their mutual benefit.

The Storey Gallery is grateful to Business in the Arts for support through its mentoring programme.

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