Sladers Yard

Contemporary Art, Furniture & Craft Gallery

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Our new website will be ready very soon but please continue to use this one for now.

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Sladers Yard is a private art gallery dedicated to exhibiting and selling contemporary British art, handmade furniture designed by Petter Southall and designer craft by leading artists, designers and makers. Sladers Yard presents a high quality changing programme of selling exhibitions throughout the year. We sell work directly from the artist so customers know when they buy from us that the artwork is genuine and that the money they spend  supports and provides a living for some of the most talented artists and makers working today. Between exhibitions we represent artists, often holding their artworks in stock and available to buy from this website, and where appropriate taking commissions for bespoke pieces. Please see individual artist pages for more information or contact the gallery on gallery@sladersyard.co.uk

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SHOWING NOW: TWO SOLO SHOWS

David Inshaw

REMEMBER – recent paintings and previously unseen etchings

23 March – 12 May 2024

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David Inshaw’s most recent paintings with etchings from his archives. Any enquiries please contact us on tel:01308 459511 or email: gallery@sladersyard.co.uk

David Inshaw Stonehenge 20″ x 20″ / 51 x 51cm. £12,000

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Louise Balaam NEAC RWA

Under Ancient Skies

23 March – 12 May 2024

Louise Balaam is a painter of expressive, gestural landscapes, communicating an intense emotional response to the experience of being in the landscape. For this exhibition she explores ancient sites – standing stones, hill forts – ‘I like the idea of tapping into the sense of reverence and meaning that the whole space around these ancient sites, including the sky, would have held to people in the past, which we have (for the most part) so sadly lost. I’m not generally painting the megaliths or stone circles themselves, but trying to evoke a sense of the atmosphere of the place.’

ARTIST’S TALK: Louise Balaam in conversation on Wednesday 10 April at 7pm (Doors 6pm hot supper available from the bar). Tickets: £12. Please call 01308 459511

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Towards the sea, Mull (in Turner’s footsteps) oil on canvas. oil on canvas. 150 x 150cm. £15,000

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ONGOING EXHIBITIONS:

Petter Southall furniture, Pod and Wave

Petter Southall’s handmade furniture and garden features are available to view at the gallery and on this website. Commissions are welcome for existing or new designs. Some furniture is the garden features are available to buy now from the gallery.

Petter Southall Treble Zero Chair and Small Screen Desk in solid oak, steam bent curves.[/caption]

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Bent-wood eco-pod by Petter Southall available to buy now. More…

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The gallery’s changing exhibitions are accompanied by an ongoing and continuously renewed exhibitions of craft and accessories including ceramics, sculpture, glassware, leather and textiles by leading British designer craftspeople. Please see the individual designers and maker’s pages. Housed in an historic Georgian rope warehouse, with pillared galleries and flower-filled courtyard, Sladers Yard is five minutes walk from the beach and harbour in West Bay, Dorset. Don’t forget to reserve a table/takeaway at our acclaimed Café/restaurant.

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CAFÉ SLADERS

Open for outdoor table service in our lovely yard and for Takeaway. We are delighted to offer all kinds of delicious treats. See our Menus. Phone 01308 459511 or email to reserve a table.

Chunky Fish Stew, mussels, prawns, white fish, fennel with Mediterranean veg

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Regular and varied live evening events with dinners are on hold at the present time. The venue is also usually available for catered private parties, weddings and celebrations. Evening events are limited to artists and literary talks for the moment.

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What the press say…

‘Visit this wonderful place.’ Financial Times HTSI 2012 Read more…

‘Sladers Yard in Bridport, a gallery increasingly celebrated for its spirited showing of contemporary British art, furniture and craft…’ Andrew Lambirth, The Spectator 2014

‘This artist-owned gallery, situated in an 18th century warehouse near the harbour, has become a focal point for the county’s creatives since it opened in 2006.’ FT 2011

‘An idyllic gallery in West Bay… Everything looks exciting in the sunlight that floods in, especially [Petter Southall’s] pieces whose generous curves seem to have come straight out of the boat yard.’ Paul Atterbury (Antiques Roadshow) in BBC Homes & Antiques ‘Antiques of the Future’

‘Bridport and West Bay, the place that probably set the whole Dorset art-scene off back in the Noughties… The place that has set the pace here is Sladers Yard. Their series of immaculately curated solo shows by the region’s leading artists and crafts people are held almost all the year round, and complemented by regular top-notch jazz concerts, poetry events and a terrific restaurant.’  Nicholas Usherwood, Galleries Magazine July 2015

CAFÉ SLADERS has won eight Gold Awards from Taste of the West.

‘There is a growing and loyal following for Sladers’ inventive, exciting and uplifting presentation of exceptional art and craft in a space that is in tune with, and celebrates, its environment.’ Coast magazine 2015

The first floor gallery at Sladers Yard with Petter Southall’s furniture

‘This splendid gallery… Its unreconstructed corn-scented timber interior makes an elegant setting…’ The Week

‘Simple and beautiful’ Mary Miers, Country Life

David Inshaw solo show with Petter Southall furniture

The cliffs at West Bay with the traditional Norwegian double-ended Oselvar Færing Petter built as his apprentice piece when he was 21.

The Southall family in Petter’s Oselvar Faering off Burton Bradstock.

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