• SARAH MYERSCOUGH GALLERY

     

     

  • We have officially closed our North Row gallery space, but you can find us this year at various international fairs and exhibitions. To arrange viewings, or for any queries, please contact us as usual. We look forward to welcoming everyone to our new gallery space in 2025.

     

     

    Established in 1998, Sarah Myerscough Gallery represents a distinguished group of contemporary craft and design artists, specialising in material-led processes with a focus on wood and natural materials. The gallery works in both public and private collections, maintains a full programme of exhibitions and participates in leading art fairs around the world, including TEFAF Maastricht, PAD London, London Design Festival, Design Miami and FOG Design + Art San Francisco. 

     

    The gallery represents highly-skilled international artist-designer-makers, whose practices are grounded in craft-making traditions but defined by contemporary innovation and invention. Through diverse making processes, they collectively embrace the complex intersections between history and future; hand and technology; form and function. By curating a specialist programme of exhibitions, the gallery aims to support this movement within the arts, which advocates the importance of retaining elements of the past, to mould a vision of the future.

    The gallery’s aesthetic is clearly centred on material-led processes and relishes the connection to the natural world: organic material and form, with a focus on wood. It embraces the elemental and the imperfect and seeks creative authenticity and integrity, indulging in texture, tactility and sensory experience, which informs each object and unique sculptural furniture piece. Nick Compton in Hole and Corner comments that, 'Myerscough represents a collection of more than 20 artist-makers – and together they represent a unique and compelling take on what contemporary craft can and should be; not perfect or obviously pretty, nor backward looking, but born of an intimate understanding of material and the cause and effect of craft skills'.

    Sarah Myerscough aims to promote this new breed of artist-designer-maker at the highest level by exhibiting at the world’s pre-eminent art, design and craft fairs and placing works within significant private and public collections. It brings their practices to a wider international audience, so that their exceptional creative vision is properly acknowledged.

    Essentially, the ultimate ambition is an engagement with unique art, design and craft pieces, which are imbued with narrative and material intelligence. This concept is perhaps best described by Glenn Adamson in his book Fewer, Better, Things (Bloomsbury New York, 2018): '…What if we were to approach every object according to its potential narrative and meaning - the way that we give a toy to a child or a ring to a spouse? …If we were to bring objects into our lives one by one, each time with genuine care, it would be better for us, better for society, better for the planet.'

  • NEW CHAPTER AT BALDERTON STREET

  • The gallery is thrilled to announce that we will be moving to 18 Balderton Street in Mayfair in 2025. After extensive renovation, the gallery will showcase special editions of contemporary design and craft from our artists in this magnificent, three storey-Victorian schoolhouse. 

     

    The original building was once part of the Central London Polytechnic, an institution that concentrated on applied subjects such as engineering, photography and the sciences. It is located between Gilbert Baye's iconic Queen of Time sculpture above Selfridges and Antony Gormley's magnificent sculpture, Room, an extension to the Beaumont Hotel. 

     

    The educational legacy of the building informs our thinking for the gallery's future. We envision this space as a home for exploring craft knowledge, contemporary design, and art. Building upon the gallery's commitment to platforming innovative material knowledge and practice in contemporary art and design, Balderton Street, fondly named 'The Schoolhouse', will also be the home of our Crafted Arts Foundation. This will offer 2000 sq ft of the space to classrooms, workshops and an open-access library as well as an exciting programme of lectures and publications. 

     

    We look forward to welcoming you at Balderton Street soon.  

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    The UK government introduced Anti-Money Laundering measures as of 10th January 2020, which require auction houses, art galleries and dealerships to conduct due diligence on buyers purchasing artworks above a €10,000 threshold. Therefore, before the completion of any sale over this threshold, we are now legally obliged to carry out identification checks. To do so, we use a highly secure platform called Arcarta which is fully GDPR-compliant. Please do not hesitate to contact the gallery if you would like to receive any additional information about this process.