About the gallery
Chris Williams Art Gallery shows contemporary painting in East London.
The gallery opened in 2009 and represents seven painters from the UK and Europe. It holds five solo exhibitions a year in its ground-floor space on Marlow Yard, Bethnal Green, and runs a three-month studio residency on the floor above.
- Founded
- 2009
- Exhibitions
- 54
- Artists
- 7
- Address
- 14 Marlow Yard, London E2
History
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2009
Opening
Chris Williams opens the gallery in the back room of a picture framer's shop on Marlow Yard, Bethnal Green. The first exhibition, Small Oils, shows eleven paintings by artists from the area.
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2010
Jack Wolfstein
The gallery starts working with Jack Wolfstein and settles on its programme: solo exhibitions only, five or six a year.
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2011
Sea Pieces
Wolfstein's first solo exhibition, Sea Pieces, sells out in its first week. The gallery takes over the whole ground floor of 14 Marlow Yard.
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2012
The ground floor
The new space opens in September after a four-month refit. The concrete floor and the two north-facing windows are kept.
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2013
Mira Lindqvist
Mira Lindqvist joins the gallery. Her first exhibition, Festival, needs temporary walls to hang the largest canvases.
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2014
Exhibition texts
Each exhibition now comes with a printed text written by the artist, free at the front desk.
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2015
Tobias Kern
Tobias Kern's exhibition Restorations opens in April. Three works are later lent to a museum exhibition in Rotterdam.
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2016
Benefit sale
After a rent increase, the gallery's artists donate one work each to a benefit sale in November. The proceeds cover two years of rent.
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2017
Studio residency
The gallery signs a ten-year lease and opens a studio on the first floor. Artists are offered three-month residencies, free of charge.
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2018
Amara Osei
Amara Osei is the first artist in residence. Her street paintings are shown in December.
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2019
River Cole
River Cole paints a temporary mural on the gallery's back wall, painted over when the exhibition closes.
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2020
Closure
The gallery closes from March to August. Instead of online viewing rooms it posts printed postcards of works to anyone who asks; around four thousand are sent.
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2021
Ines Calder
Ines Calder joins the gallery. Exhibitions are extended from six weeks to ten.
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2022
Sam Ferreira
Sam Ferreira's first exhibition at the gallery, Studio Wall, opens in May.
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2024
Online collection
The gallery launches its online collection, arranged by artist rather than by date.
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2026
Today
The gallery represents seven artists and shows five exhibitions a year at 14 Marlow Yard.
Open Wednesday to Sunday. Admission is free.
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Wednesday to Saturday, 11:00 to 18:00 Sunday, 12:00 to 17:00 Admission free
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