Room Hire

Floor Plans

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Spaces available to hire (please call 01795 535515 for prices & bookings. Detailed Floor Plans are available for each area):

  • Upper Gallery (Ground Level off Abbey Street): 94.6 sq m (1017.5 sq ft)
  • Lower Gallery (Basement Level): 50.86 sq m (547.3 sq ft) + Restricted Area (Sub-Yard & Tunnel) 121.87 sq m (1311.3 sq ft)

 

VIEW OVER THE FRONT YARD AND MAIN ENTRANCE (FROM ABBEY STREET)

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ANY INTERESTED ARTISTS AND POTENTIAL EXHIBITORS SHOULD CHECK OUR ONLINE CALENDAR FOR FUTURE EXHIBITION DATE RANGE AVAILABILITY

Find a slot and contact us to book your next exhibition in either the Upper Gallery (current hire price: £324.60 per week inc VAT) or Lower Gallery (from £255.60 per week inc VAT). Perhaps it’s time to organise a joint or group show to get your latest work seen, and hopefully encourage some significant purchases from visitors. Any questions please email info@creek-creative.org or call 01795 535515.

Our premises is built into a slope which can be confusing, as our hireable exhibition, project, teaching and event facilities are arranged on two “Ground Floors”. The Basement Level is the lowest floor (aka ‘Zone G’ or Lower Ground Floor) accessed either directly from Belvedere Road at the back, or via the Main Entrance on Abbey street and front stairs. The Ground Level is the middle floor (aka ‘Zone 1’ or Ground Floor) accessed from Abbey Street at the front, and the Top Level (aka ‘Zone 2′ or 1st/Top Floor) is reserved for the private artists’ studios above. Our conversion works are ongoing as the project evolves.

Ground Level Space:
The Upper Gallery, accessed by the Main Entrance Lobby on Abbey Street, is our primary meeting and exhibition space, and the first major area any visitor will encounter: it merges with our award-winning Gallery Kitchen Cafe and Artisan Shop in one large and welcoming open plan area. Historically, being our first completed publicly-accessible area, this gallery space has hosted the broadest selection of art exhibitions, events, classes and presentations, although currently availability for such activities is extremely limited. #SocialDistancing regulations continue to prohibit significant gatherings, in addition to our previous limits of hosting outside the Gallery Kitchen Cafe hours (ie 8.30am – 10am and 4.30pm – 10pm).

Basement Level Space:
The multi-function Lower Gallery is accessed via the Front Staircase when exhibitions are running (turn left through double doors in the Front Lobby): this quiet, dedicated gallery space accommodates exhibitions requiring the higher ceiling and a cool, reflective atmosphere, in contrast to the busy, cafe-based Upper Gallery. Since the pandemic this space has had a broader function, providing teaching capacity for workshops and short-courses in between exhibition or presentation bookings, with the adjoining Tunnel Areas for cleaning, temporary storage, and miscellaneous hire activities (such as sound recordings and unusual installation mock-ups) at a modest extra cost.

The Lower Gallery areas are hireable for teaching and/or club activities which in the past have included classes such as painting, drawing, life-drawing, mask-making & cartoons for kids, craft workshops, creative upholstery, ceramics, digital photo manipulation, linocut printing, flower arranging, and experimental sculpture. This range can be seen via our Creek Creative Archive Retrospective Show on YouTube.

Please Note: the Performance Space (which has hosted many exhibitions, Visual Arts classes and various evening events over the years) was converted some years ago into more artist/maker workshop studios: ‘PS Studios 10 & 11’ were completed by December 2019 and ‘PS Studio 12’ by March 2020, and now a ‘PS Studio 13’ is being converted. In addition, by September 2020 we had also partitioned off the former Project / Teaching Space (ZG 05) into a private studio with adjacent kitchen area. The Printmaking Studio (ZG 09) has also just been converted into a private studio (from November 2025), apologies for any inconvenience to would-be print tutors & students, but printing workshops can still be delivered in the Lower Gallery.

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