Floor One Gallery - Rugby Art Gallery & Museum
The Floor One Gallery and Balcony Gallery
Exhibition remembering the New Cross Fire 1981
4 - 21 January 2022
Geoffrey's Acrylic Pouring Art
7 - 18 March 2023
This is Geoff's first exhibition as an artist. Geoff is a local resident of Brinklow and started his artistic journey in February 2020. He specialises in acrylic pouring art using a variety of styles. There is a dutch pour, swipes, blooms, flip cup and many more. All are finished with resin to protect the colours. Geoff takes commissions so do come along and see the range of works he has which include deep edge canvases, ceramic tiles, small table tops and jewellery boxes.
The Floor One Gallery
Satwant Rai: The Finest of Arts
29 July - 16 August 2025
A collection of work by local visual artist Satwant Rai, reflecting a deep connection with nature and a continuing search for stillness and serenity. With over six years of experience working across various mediums—painting, drawing, and mixed media—Satwant’s art captures moments of calm inspired by the natural world.
The Balcony Gallery
Sean Wilson: Marching to the Beat of a Different Drum
2 - 30 August 2025
Sean Wilson’s career has been enigmatic at the very least. Since waving goodbye to his character Martin Platt in Coronation Street in 2005, he has shown that true culture is at his very core.
Sean is now a professional artist and thrives in a style of freedom and thus demonstrates his chance to pull a strong narrative from his sometimes-strong views. His first exhibition at Rugby Art Gallery, takes the viewer on a foray into varying voyages of creativity.
Sean really does “March to the Beat of a Different Drum” and Rugby Art Gallery and Museum are delighted that as a local artist living in Lutterworth Sean has chosen to exhibit in The Balcony Gallery, Rugby Art Gallery and Museum.
The Floor One Gallery
Mark Tweedie and Clint Hamilton: Raw Sky
19 August - 6 September 2025
"Raw Sky" depicts the wonder of the night sky in unusual and imaginative ways using mixed media, cyanotypes, poetry, photography, sketching and photogravure etchings.
Clint Hamilton's work focuses on time, space and connection. The moon and its many themes feature heavily within his current practice which he uses to explore our waning relationship with our constant satellite, the environment and ourselves. His works included in the Raw Sky exhibition includes examples of experimenting with the elements of drawing and camera-less photography techniques and their historical significance with capturing the image of the moon along with addition of sculptural collage.
Mark Tweedie's work straddles the gulf between art and science with high-resolution photographs, lunar sketches, poetry and an artist's book of 3.2 metres in length which visualises the scale of the distance between the Moon and the Earth. In addition to this, he is showing photogravures of deep sky objects beyond our solar system.
Photogravure is a modern take on the ancient printing method of etching which uses photosensitive plates to make an etched original which can then be inked and passed through a high-pressure printing press.
The Floor One and Balcony Galleries Programme 2025
20 January - 1 February 2025: Rugby Artists and Makers
4 February - 28 February 2025: Paint 2 Impress: Annual Exhbition
18 February - 1 March: Harmarium: Journey of a Character
4 March - 15 March: John Thompson, Clare Pentlow, Vikki Skinner: Rock, Paper, Scissors:
18 March - 29 March: Huyen Phan: Community Arts Project UK: Flourishing
1 April - 12 April: Pete Thornley
15 April - 3 May: Rugby Artists' Group: Seasons
6 May - 17 May : Mike Gale: A rural perspective
20 May - 31 May: Eric Gaskell: Ten years of Linocut in the Balcony Gallery
4 June - 14 June: Percival Guildhouse : Centenary Exhibition
17 June - 28 June : Mark Curtis Hughes: Ocean of Noise
17 June - 26 July : Future Faces : Self portraits by Rugby young artists in the Balcony Gallery
31 June - 12 July : Warwickshire Open Studios
15 July - 26 July : Frances Holmes
29 July - 16 August: Satwant Rai
2 August - 30 August: Sean Wilson 'Marching to the beat of a different drum'
19 August - 6 September: Mark Tweedie and Clint Hamilton - "Raw Sky"
9 September - 20 September : Harris School
23 September - 4 October : The Broadway Group
30 September - 25 October: The Batik Guild 'Connections: Threads, Journeys’
14 October - 25 October : Alchemy
28 October - 8 November : Dunchurch Photographic Society
11 November - 22 November : Rugby College TBC
27 November - 13 December : Anya Kalsi, Winner of the Rugby 2024 Open Art Exhibition
Exhibition remembering the New Cross Fire 1981
4 - 21 January 2022
Geoffrey's Acrylic Pouring Art
7 - 18 March 2023
This is Geoff's first exhibition as an artist. Geoff is a local resident of Brinklow and started his artistic journey in February 2020. He specialises in acrylic pouring art using a variety of styles. There is a dutch pour, swipes, blooms, flip cup and many more. All are finished with resin to protect the colours. Geoff takes commissions so do come along and see the range of works he has which include deep edge canvases, ceramic tiles, small table tops and jewellery boxes.
Hiring Gallery Space
Floor One Gallery was established in September 2001 to provide more exhibiting opportunities for artists within Warwickshire and beyond. Individual artists and groups of artists can hire the space for two week slots to stage self-organised exhibitions. Artists get the use of 17.75 linear metres of wall space clad to the same standard as the Art Gallery on the second floor. All areas of exhibition organisation are the responsibility of the hirer, including the marketing, installation and supervision of the exhibition. The two or three week slots run from MONDAY to MONDAY.
The current fee for a 2 week hire period is £152.50. Public liability insurance is required (available to purchase for £32.40).
We now hire the Balcony Gallery as a space for freelance artists. The Balcony Gallery has a total of 10.98 linear wall space and is available for hire for 4 week periods. The hire fee for 4 weeks is currently £192.00.
Exhibition remembering the New Cross Fire 1981
4 - 21 January 2022