Astley Cheetham Art Gallery Exhibitions

A Picture of Tameside

27 April – 15 June

An exhibition of artworks exploring the varied landscape sand urban scenes of Tameside to mark the 50th anniversary of the creation of the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside. From rolling hills and windswept moorland, to bustling markets and industrial panoramas, the towns and countryside of Tameside have inspired many generations. The exhibition explores how artists have depicted the area from Victorian times to the present day, and includes work by local born artists Harry Rutherford and Simeon Stafford.
 

Open Art 2024

It is time to get your paintbrushes and creativity at the ready as we launch this year’s Open Art call out. This is your chance to have your artwork on display in the gallery. It could be a painting, a sculpture, photograph, textile, poem, and much more. We’ll be accepting artworks at the gallery between Saturday 8 June and Saturday 15 June during opening hours. Please see the entry form for more details of how to enter and eligibility.  Email us at portland.basin@tameside.gov.uk if you have any queries or would like us to post the entry form to you.
 

• Open Art 24 application leaflet

Art UK

You can find many of the paintings from the Astley Cheetham Art Collection on the Art UK website - Art UK | Discover Artworks

You can also buy prints of some of our artworks via Art UK, including ‘Mill Girls’ and ‘Northern Saturday’ by Harry Rutherford. Prints are printed to a high quality in a variety of sizes and with options for framing. Proceeds from sales help support the gallery. You can browse prints for sale here: Search Art UK for Books, Art Prints & Framed Prints
 

NICE Paintings (The National Inventory of Continental European Paintings)

You can now see some of the artworks held by the Astley Cheetham Art Collection online. 

This is the first phase of the National Inventory Research Project's aim of creating a searchable illustrated inventory of all 22,000 pre-1900 Continental European oil paintings in the UK's public collections.

The database currently contains nearly 8,000 records and over 2,500 images from 200 museums across the UK.

Paintings inventory

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