Cubitt Gallery
What Visitors Say
I recently saw The Landscape along with its closing event which featured a live painting. The space is small and tucked away which feels very escapist. The raw materials of the walls and floor make it feel far less clinical than some gallery spaces - it is however slightly colder due to this. The exhibition itself was very minimal but expertly curated resulting in a show which kept the viewer’s interest throughout. The live painting was to say the least, magical. Being able to sit quietly, welcomed into another artist’s creative process is quite simply amazing and it’s something I now hope to do more of. The Cubitt gallery is excellent and Id highly recommend it for anyone who wants to see art portrayed a little differently and escape the generic layout seen across any major art space.
This is mainly a studio, with one small room used as as gallery of sorts. Don't make this a trip to see unless you are in the area already. My friend and I did and were very disappointed. Your experience of it will depends on the exhibit at the time really, so it's hard to rate. My rating is based on the space, experience and current exhibit by Dean Blunt. The exhibit nothing more than a high pitched sound used to disperse crowds. Nothing else at all (we didn't even know that was it until the girl working there told us).
Highlights
Artist-Run Model
Shows how a co-operative sustains emerging practice outside commercial pressures.Exhibitions are selected by a resident curator and made with on-site artists, so the programme reads like a live lab rather than a fixed ‘house style’.
Main gallery and adjacent studios
Curatorial Residency Archive
Documents a lineage of curators whose one-year tenures shape the gallery’s identity.Each resident leaves a paper trail—posters, essays, event scores—mapping shifts in contemporary concerns from one season to the next.
Desk/reading material near entrance (varies by show)
Live & Time-Based Works
The space regularly hosts performance, readings and sound pieces that re-compose the exhibition over time.A ‘finished’ show becomes a stage; objects turn into instruments and back again.
Performance slots within current exhibition run
Opening Hours
Fun Facts
Cubitt Artists was founded in the early 1990s as a non-profit studio co-operative with a public gallery; its rotating curatorial bursary became a model widely copied by UK artist-run spaces.
The gallery’s commissioning approach means many exhibitions function as first presentations of brand-new work in London, often accompanied by editioned prints or publications produced in-house.
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