Messums West is a multi-purpose gallery and arts centre based at the Tithe Barn, Place Farm, Tisbury in Wiltshire. The venue opened in Autumn 2016 after a two-year restoration project to bring a thirteenth century monastic barn, the largest thatched building in the country, back to life as an exhibition and event space. The gallery’s one year anniversary was marked by the opening of the Long Gallery, a former dairy that lies perpendicular to the main barn, and a space to present two-dimensional works of art and objects of scale. The Mess Restaurant was opened in the same year and the exterior courtyard was remodelled in 2021 with extensive presentational space for sculpture.
Messums London is the capital focus to the exhibition programming. It is a destination for a rolling programme of solo and thematic shows reflecting the support and progress of our represented artists and other interests. Presentations throughout the year reflect core specialisms within the breadth of the arts represented, encompassing architecture, painting, drawing, ceramic, sculpture, film, photography, performance, textiles and more. The programme celebrates the exceptional and outstanding in all these genres and complements the events that take place across our other venues.
The Mess is at the heart of Messums West and is an ideal place to reflect on the art on display whilst catching up with friends and family over a freshly ground coffee or speciality tea with homemade cake.Our courtyard garden offers our guests the chance to soak up more of the beautiful surroundings here at Messums.
Opening in Spring 2025, the former Post Office building in London Road North will be refurbished and transformed into a 21st century hub for creativity and, in so doing, will maintain the heritage of this historically important building in the heart of the town. Working with Lowestoft Town Council and internationally renowned local sculptor Laurence Edwards the hub, known as Messums East, will provide exhibition space, a shop for ideas and a working studio for a long-term residency programme. It will offer a meeting place for minds steeped in a range of genre, together with exhibition spaces, a screening room and a café/ restaurant.
In theatrical circles, the ‘green room’ is the place where artists prepare to go on stage, traditionally painted green with low lighting to encourage an environment of relaxed contemplation. Inspired by this concept, The Green Room at Messums London is an unique space in the Cork Street gallery dedicated to showcasing innovative new and emerging contemporary art from around the world; a place to find exciting world-class talent before it takes centre stage.
The intimate solo and mixed exhibitions in The Green Room will operate separately from the main programme in the gallery, rotating regularly, creating a dynamic centre for emerging contemporary art at the heart of the London art world’s most prestigious street.
Watch this space.
As specialists in twentieth century and contemporary sculpture, Messums have an unrivalled collection of Elisabeth Frink’s available to the art market along with many other fine examples of figurative sculptures in bronze, stone and marble.
Our collections and newly arrived artworks are housed at the Blackbarn storage facility and can be viewed by appointment at The Elisabeth Frink Studio.
In 2016, Messums saved Elisabeth Frink’s Woolland studio from demolition and in 2019 it was reconstructed in the tithe barn in Tisbury before finding a permanent home in Sutton Mandeville, Wiltshire.
Founded by the team at Messums West, MW Art Services is an independent company of specialists in the arts industry.
Bringing together the unique range of expertise and skill sets that have driven the Messums West programming, MW Art Services is now available directly to individuals and institutions to help with the storage, maintenance and management of your artworks and collections.
From March 2024, supplementing our specialist art services, we are delighted to launch art photography for artists and collectors. In partnership with Steve Russell studios. We can offer high resolution photography on Hasselblad multishot for publication, website, social media, documentation and archiving. If you are an artist or small business owner looking to add products to a website, we can provide the professional looking images that you need.
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