Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG) unveils plans for refurbishment
The gallery will take a three-month break for much-needed improvements to the gallery spaces.
Thelma Hulbert Gallery (THG) announced that the gallery will temporarily close from 25 December 2024 until 22 March 2025 for a long overdue refurbishment of their gallery spaces.
The Honiton-based gallery will undertake essential repairs to the gallery, improvements to the gallery spaces, incorporate a dedicated new space for volunteers and improved toilet facilities.
This temporary closure will not affect THG's award-winning engagement programme with schools and community groups, which will continue at offsite locations across East Devon. The gallery was recently awarded a grant from Arts Council England for its Create Our Space project working with young people with a particular focus on the towns of Axminster, Honiton and Exmouth.
The gallery will reopen in March with Sensing the Planet, a key new exhibition by Ashish Ghadiali, a prolific artist and curator of art that speaks to the environmental crisis and racial inequity. The exhibition has been built out of a public programme and brings together work from institutions across the South West including Dartington Hall, the Box in Plymouth and Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter as well as London institutions, the Serpentine and the South Bank Centre.
This will be followed in May by a much-anticipated exhibition of the photography of James Ravilious, revealing an intimate portrait of rural and farming life in Devon.
For THG's full exhibition programme, please visit thelmahulbert.com/exhibitions.
The gallery will be available to contact via email: info@thelmahulbert.com. For updates, please visit thelmahulbert.com, subscribe to the THG newsletter and follow their Instagram and Facebook channels: @thelmahulbertgallery.
Councillor Nick Hookway, Portfolio Holder for Culture, Sport, Leisure & Tourism, East Devon District Council, commented,
These repairs are much needed and will breathe new life into the gallery. We look forward with anticipation to their reopening in March next year.
Programme of exhibitions:
Present Makers 2024 until 24 December 2024
Ashish Ghadiali: Sensing the Planet (22 March - 26 April 2025)
James Ravilious exhibition (10 May - 28 June 2025)
THG Open 2025 (12 July - 23 August 2025)
CAMP and Emerging Artists (6 September - 25 October 2025)
Present Makers 2025 (8 November - 24 December 2025)
