#Wirral2024 Left Bank of the Mersey Tour

#Wirral2024 The Caravan Gallery Left Bank of the Mersey Tour   We’re made up to have been awarded a Wirral Borough of…

Burnley Pride of Place Project

Burnley Pride of Place Project Autumn 2023 – Summer 2024 EXHIBITION OPENING CELEBRATION:  55 The Mall, Charter Walk under the main Market…

Blyth Pride of Place Project

Blyth Pride of Place Project   Project Space (former Shoezone), Keel Row Shopping Centre, Blyth NE24 1AH Saturday 30 September – Saturday…

Tile Hill Pride of Place Project

Tile Hill Pride of Place Project Newsflash! Saturday 2nd July: Jan and Chris of The Caravan Gallery will be at Central Library,…

Barnsley: Two exhibitions

We are delighted to announce that we have two exhibitions at the Cooper Gallery Barnsley. 19th February – 14th May 2022 Galleries…

Openshaw Pride of Place Project

Openshaw Pride of Place Project (exhibition and alternative visitor information centre!) New Roundhouse (aka Manchester Settlement) 1328 – 1330 Ashton Old Road,…

Barrow Pride of Place Project 

UPDATE:  Chapter One, June 2021:  Online postcard making workshops . Chapter Two, October 2021:  Barrow Pride of Place Project exhibition + workshops…

Saving Ron’s Place

We urgently need to save and conserve Ron’s Place as an extraordinary example of an immersive visionary art environment and make it…

Transforming Places From The Inside Out

Transforming Places From The Inside Out. The Caravan Gallery will be presenting workshops focusing on their Pride of Place Projects at this free conference…

Wombwell Pride of Place Project

Barnsley Museums have commissioned The Caravan Gallery to shine a spotlight on the South Yorkshire town of Wombwell which lies 5 miles…

Sandwell Pride of Place Project

The Caravan Gallery is thrilled to be working on the Sandwell Pride of Place Project, a major commission from West Bromwich-based arts…

Photography and Wellbeing Talk

We will be giving talk about our work at this special event “Photography and Wellbeing” with Paul Sanders and Jim Hawkins, BBC…

Talk at the Martin Parr Foundation

We are pleased to announce that we will be giving a talk at the Martin Parr Foundation in May 2018, ‘Photographing the…

Sneinton Pride of Place Project Book

Sneinton Pride of Place Project Book Launch Thursday 25th January, 4.30pm – 6.30pm at Place, 25 Avenue C, Sneinton Market, Nottingham NG1…

NIDA 2017 International Photography Symposium

We’re thrilled to be going to NIDA, Lithuania, where we will be giving a talk at the 40th International Photography Symposium – details…

The Caravan Gallery in China

We were invited to show photographs of Britain to accompany this craft fair. China Craft Week 2017

Pride of Place Projects: Overview

Pride of Place Projects: Participatory projects exploring people’s relationship to place. Pride of Place Projects are part exhibition, part reverse visitor information…

The Caravan Gallery Publications

The Caravan Gallery produces a wide range of publications including the best selling Is Britain Great? series. Some books such as Aberdeenshire Ways…

Past projects & Exhibitions

Derby – Format International Photo Festival

Format Festival 24 – 26 March 2017 Launch 23 March 2017 The Caravan Gallery will be popping up outside Pearson’s, showing photographs…

Sneinton Pride of Place Project

Saturday 4th – Saturday 18th March 2017 Sneinton Pride of Place Project: Unit 5, Sneinton Market, Nelson Street NG1 1DR Open: Tuesday to Saturday…

Solent Showcase, Southampton

The next stop on our National Tour is SOUTHAMPTON. Exhibition dates: 21st October – 1st December 2016. extra{ordinary} – Photographs of Britain by The Caravan…

Traditional Lithuanian singing in our Savanoriai Museum, Kaunas

During May 2016 Kaunas Photo Festival hosted The Caravan Gallery for a 3 week residency as part of  ‘Flaneur: new urban narratives‘ , a network…

mima, Middlesbrough

Exhibition dates: 30th July – 18th September 2016. extra{ordinary} – Photographs of Britain by The Caravan Gallery, Middlesbrough Pride of Place Project and the Middlesbrough…

Museum of Lancashire, Preston

The next stop on our National Tour… PRESTON. Exhibition dates: 30th January – 16th April 2016. extra{ordinary} – Photographs of Britain by The Caravan…

Diffusion Festival, Cardiff

The Caravan Gallery Touring Exhibition, Cardiff Pride of Place Project and The Caravan Gallery Tour. TOURING EXHIBITION 2015 – 2016. extra{ordinary} Photographs of Britain by The Caravan…

Impressions Gallery, Bradford

The Caravan Gallery Touring Exhibition, Bradford Pride of Place Project and The Caravan Gallery Tour. TOURING EXHIBITION 2015 – 2016. extra{ordinary} Photographs of Britain by The Caravan…

NGCA, Sunderland

The Caravan Gallery Touring Exhibition, Sunderland Pride of Place Project and The Caravan Gallery Tour. TOURING EXHIBITION 2015 – 2016. extra{ordinary} Photographs of Britain by The…

Watch this Space Festival

29th August – 31st August 2014. To see the programme – click here: Watch This Space, St Johns and Waterloo. The Caravan…

Huntly Pride of Place Project

15th July – 11th August 2013. The Town was the venue! Deveron Arts Residency, Huntly, Aberdeenshire. A project recording the ordinary and…

Wirral Pride of Place Project

8th June – 23rd June 2013. Over the course of a fortnight, The Caravan Gallery transformed an empty unit (a Momentary Art Project space)…

Liverpool Pride of Place Project

17th May – 16th June 2013. During the course of a month The Caravan Gallery transformed two storeys of an empty shop…

Chassepierre International Street Arts Festival, Belgium

18th August – 19th August 2012. Chassepierre, Florenville, Belgium. Postcards of Chassepierre:                    …

Lytham St Annes Pride of Place Project

13th July – 22nd July 2012. The Caravan Gallery transformed an empty shop in St Annes into a temporary gallery-cum-visitor information centre…

Oxford Pride of Place Project

3rd May – 27th May 2012. This project and exhibition took place at the O3 Gallery and Old Fire Station, Oxford. The…

Wetteren Pride of Place Project, Belgium

21st April – 29th April 2012. The Caravan Gallery was commissioned to make a photographic response to the Flemish town of Wetteren,…

Look/11 International Photography Festival, Liverpool

18th June – 19th June 2011. A day in Lark Lane exhibiting photos of Liverpool and, rather unusually, a People’s Map of…

Guernsey Pride of Place Project

1st June – 15th June 2011. Guernsey Photographic Festival, St. Peter Port. This project was a 2-week residency that took place in…

Portsmouth Pride of Place Project

18th April – 18th May 2011. Our first Pride of Place Project was a month-long evolving exhibition featuring new and archival images of…

‘Nice Cuppa Tea’, South Kilburn, London

26th March 2011. An Empty Shops Network project supported by South Kilburn Neighbourhood Trust. Made in South Kilburn article. Peel Precinct, outside…

Focus on Imaging (with Panasonic), Birmingham

6th March 2011 – 9th March 2011. The Caravan Gallery had pride of place on the Panasonic stand with an exhibition of…

Fulbridge School Residency

The Caravan Gallery create tailor-made projects for schools exploring ‘sense of place’ through art and creativity to help young people appreciate the community in…

Empty Shop Network Tour

1st February – 19th December 2010. A Revolutionary Arts / Empty Shops Network initiative organised by Dan Thompson. Brixton – Coventry –…

Edinburgh Art Festival

5th – 9th August 2009. Exhibition of new work exploring the Edinburgh region – as well as Glasgow and around. Part of…

White Stuff, London and Chichester

June – July 2009. White Stuff invited The Caravan Gallery to exhibit outside three of their stores to complement their caravanning theme for…

The Caravan Gallery at Burbidges Bakery

Freddie Rostand from the BBC followed us for a special outing to the amazing shop of Mr ‘Bakerman’ Burbidge in Andover.

The Other South Bank

Pilgrim films (Paul Kelly & Andrew Hinton) invited The Caravan Gallery to collaborate on a project about South Bank, Middlesbrough comparing its fortunes with South…

Glasgow International Festival

Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Art. 10th April – 14th April 2008. Street Level Photoworks commission to create a new body of…

‘Is Britain Great?’ Aspex, Portsmouth

2nd December 2006 – 11th February 2007. ‘Is Britain Great?’: The Caravan Gallery UK tour. An comprehensive collection of photographs and documentation…

Liverpool Stories

Liverpool Stories: