December 5th, 2020 – January 24th, 2021 Opening December 5th, 10am – 5pm       Exhibition Statement This years annual Winter Exhibition will feature a diverse collection of paintings, limited edition prints and sculpture by local artists; Andrew Macara, Gareth Buxton, Shirley Stevenson, Peter Clayton, Deb Allitt, Richard Perry, Jo McChesney and Serena Smith. The exhibition… Continue Reading

8th August – 13th September        

August 10th – September 29th, 2019     Exhibition Statement We are excited to present our 2019 Summer Exhibition, we have selected our favourite pieces from eight of our represented artists studios to curate a diverse selection of some of the finest painting, sculpture and printmaking in the East Midlands.   Peter Clayton’s collection of… Continue Reading

10th November – 21st December, 2018 Opening Invitation – Saturday 10th November, 6 – 8pm    

31st May  – July 8th, 2018 Opening Event – 2nd June 2018, 2pm – 5pm     Exhibition Statement The work that has been produced here derives from a project I originally started work on in the 1970s although all the work produced for this exhibition was completed in 2018.   Applying the Bauhaus theatre concept whose plots… Continue Reading

March 17th – April 22nd, 2018       Exhibition Statement Featuring three local painters; David Crouch, Catherine Headley and Kerri Pratt ‘Impact and Interpretation’ sees the artists share an intention not to produce a realistic, photographic image, instead the focus is to create something that has an element of familiarity to intrigue and engage the… Continue Reading

December 9th – January 28th       Exhibition Statement A selection of artwork by newly joined and long standing represented artists, the exhibition will have a focus on contemporary painting, print and sculpture from a select group of seven local artists.   Andrew Macara, Colin Halliday, Lois Wallace, Michelle Keegan, David Sprakes, Matthew Strong… Continue Reading

September 30th – October 22nd, 2017 Opening Evening, September 30th, 6 – 8pm   Exhibition Statement Tarpey Gallery is excited to present ‘A Study in Stone’, an exhibition of Stone Lithography in collaboration with Leicester Print Workshop that will take place between September 30th – October 22nd, 2017. The exhibition will be showing work from five… Continue Reading

24th June – 29th July Opening Evening, 24th June, 6 – 8pm     Exhibition Statement Tarpey Gallery is proud to present ‘Language of Form’, taking place from 24th June – 29th July. The exhibition features work by four local artists with national reputations. Whilst each artist brings their own unique perspective to landscape painting the… Continue Reading

February 11th – March 18th, 2017 Opening Evening, February 11th, 6 – 8pm     Exhibition Statement Tarpey Gallery is pleased to present ‘Cut and Paste’ a group show with work by three Midlands based artists; Clay Smith, Luke Tarpey and Mark Watkins, who each bring an individual take on the art of collage. The exhibition will… Continue Reading

24th September – 30th October, 2016 Opening Evening, 24th September, 5 – 8pm      

June 25th – 7th August, 2016 Opening Evening, June 25th, 6 – 8pm      

March 26th – May 1st, 2016 Opening, March 26th, 5 – 8pm    

November 28th – December 20th, 2015 Opening, November 28th, 2 – 5pm    

October 10th – December 20th, 2015 Opening, October 10th, 2 – 5pm    

August 23rd – September 19th, 2015 Opening, August 23rd, 12 – 3pm    

May 23rd – June 27th, 2015 Poetry Reading by Jo Bell, May 29th, 6 – 8pm    

February 28th – April 4th, 2015 Opening Night, February 28th, 6 – 8pm.     Exhibition information From 28th February 2015, Tarpey Gallery in Castle Donnington, Derbyshire will be showing the new exhibition by international British artist Nick Hersey. Entitled ‘Specialists in Failure’, the collection of paintings explores the current grand narrative of a market-driven… Continue Reading

January 24th – February 21st, 2015 Opening Night, January 24th, 6 – 8pm.     Tarpey Gallery is thrilled to host an exhibition of new work by Derbyshire painter Mark Gordon from January 24th – February 21st, 2015   For his inaugural solo show at Tarpey Gallery Mark is creating a new body of work… Continue Reading

27th September – 8th November, Opening Night, 27th September, 6 – 8pm.   Tarpey Gallery is thrilled to host an exhibition of new work by Colin Halliday from 27th September – 1st November, 2014. Painted on location in his native Derbyshire, these new works are not only a reflection of the joy of being in… Continue Reading

7th June – 26th July, Opening Night, 7th June, 6 – 8pm.   Tarpey Gallery is excited to announce an exhibition of new work by East Midlands based fine art printmaker Laine Tomkinson. Laine’s practice has developed over thirty years, experimenting with all aspects of printmaking and painting, now specialising in silkscreen and intaglio processes.… Continue Reading

Before The Past And Beyond The Future 8th March – 19th April Opening Night, 8th March, 6 – 8pm   Tarpey Gallery, Castle Donington, Sat 8 Mar to 19 Apr Dermot Punnett overlays abstract forms on to recognisable landscapes to turn them into places of obscurity and intrigue. Woodland undergrowth is superimposed with mysterious geometric diagrams… Continue Reading

Annual Open Submissions Exhibition 30th November, 2013 – 11th January, 2014 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Midlands Open, 2013   Press Release   Midlands Open 2013 is Tarpey Gallery’s annual open submissions exhibition, this year taking place from 30th November, 2013 – 11th January, 2014. The fifth annual Midlands Open aims to… Continue Reading

Wealth of Ages 7th September – 5th October, 2013 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Sarah R Key,Planters, 2013   Press Release   Midlands based artist Sarah R Key is exhibiting a new series of paintings at Tarpey Gallery from 7th September to 5th October, 2013. Titled Wealth of Ages, the new work… Continue Reading

Between Object and Place 1st June – 13th July, 2013 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Tom Pitt, Steep Drive, 2013   Press Release   Tarpey Gallery is proud to introduce Up-and-Coming Nottingham based painter Tom Pitt, selected for last years prestigious John Moores Painting Prize he is about to embark on the… Continue Reading

New Work 9th March – 13th April, 2013 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Andrew Bird, Distance to the horizon, 2012   Press Release   Tarpey Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new work by Andrew Bird. Based in Derbyshire, and a frequent visitor to Cornwall, Andrew finds inspiration from both… Continue Reading

Annual Open Submissions Exhibition 24th November – 22nd December, 2012 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Tom Pitt, Church, 2012   Press Release   Midlands Open 2012 is Tarpey Gallery’s annual open submissions exhibition, this year taking place from 24th November – 22nd December 2012. Heading into its Fourth successful year, the exhibition… Continue Reading

Group Exhibition 8th September – 29th September, 2012 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Dorothy Dexter, 2012   Press Release   Tarpey Gallery presents a diverse group exhibition with works by 13 artists from visual arts collective Socket.   Socket, formed in 2011, is a visual arts collective based in the East Midlands.… Continue Reading

Group Show 30th June – 4th August, 2012 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Denise Weston, 2012   Denise Weston   From 30th June to the 4th August 2012, Nottingham based Artists Denise Western and Inge Tong will be exhibiting their new bodies of work at Tarpey Gallery.   The Djanogly Art Gallery… Continue Reading

Group Show 11th April – 12th May, 2012 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: David Crouch, 2012   Press Release   The first mixed show at Tarpey Gallery, this intimate exhibition will be made up of a diverse selection of work by artists of international standing, whilst also introducing and supporting artists at… Continue Reading

Retrospective 21st January – 25th February Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Paul Mason   Press Release   Paul Mason (1952 – 2006) was a leading figure in sculpture, and especially public art projects, in the Midlands for much of the last quarter of the twentieth century. This exhibition features works drawn from… Continue Reading

Museum of No Fixed Agenda 1st October – 5th November, 2011 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Sarah R Key, We Ride Tonight, 2011     No Fixed Agenda: Paintings by Sarah R Key   Sometimes masked, the creatures in my work are often indiscernible in their identity. The paintings combine an open… Continue Reading

From The Earth Wealth 16th July – 20th august, 2011 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: David Manley, Diseworth, 2011   Press Release   From Castle Donington in the north east to Chilcote in the south west, David Manley draws inspiration from the district of North west Leicestershire to create some 90 small… Continue Reading

Contrivances 30th April – 28th May, 2011 Contact us for full catalogue     Image: Simon Withers, Contrivance, 2010   Press Release   “I could see the sky and there was no horizon and I imagine the world is a lovely place”   Contrivances are a series of absent landscapes. They are a search for… Continue Reading

Group Show 5th February – 12th March, 2011 Contact us for full catalogue   Image: Luke Tarpey, Forward Through the Rearview Mirror, 2011     Luke Tarpey : Forward Through the Rearview Mirror   ‘Forward Through the Rearview Mirror’ represents the beginning of my study into pattern recognition. The work is concerned with deconstructing the… Continue Reading

The Eye of Time Rewrites History 30th October – 4th December, 2010 Contact us for full catalogue       Press Release   This new group of works is the second in the series ‘Portraits without Pictures, Sound without Noise’ and will be juxtaposed with a range of earlier pieces in a variety of media… Continue Reading

The Archaelogy of Warrens and Other Habitats 3rd July – 7th August, 2010 Contact us for full catalogue       Press Release   Sarah’s work is rooted in the anthropomorphic tendencies of childhood imagination.   This, combined with darker narrative wanderings and filmic recollections, develops through a more complex adult response to the world.… Continue Reading

Touring Exhibition 17th April – 15th May, 2010 Contact us for full catalogue       Press Release   The exhibition name Digitalis takes its title from the genus of which the Foxglove is the most well known. The scientific name of Digitalis means ‘finger-like’, and the title evokes the manual skills and crafts of… Continue Reading

Current Work 30th October – 5th December, 2009 Contact us for full catalogue       Press Release   It is my intention that every work creates some kind of connections or relationships with the viewer.   My works focus on articulating ambiguous boundaries between dream and reality in the modern world. Although choosing motifs… Continue Reading