Previous Exhibitions

Over the years since we opened in 2009, we have had  more than  70 exhibitions. Some of these are available online. We hope you will enjoy browsing these pages. If you live far from Settle, perhaps it will whet your appetite to pay us a visit. In the summer of 2019 we  staged a special tenth anniversary exhibition at the Folly Museum in Settle. It ran from July 6 to September 6 and told the story of how we established the gallery. It listed all the exhibitions; included many of the posters we used to promote them and included tributes from many of our previous exhibitors, including Brian May  who has shown some of his fascinating collection of Victorian photographs on two separate occasions. The boards from the exhibition are in the NOW WE ARE TEN  section of this page, which you can reach by scrolling back to 2019.





Return of the 12 knitted days of Christmas
Drummers drumming

Drummers drumming

 

10 December 2022 – 7 January 2023

In the winter of 2022,  we were delighted, once again, to show the famous all-knitted 12 days of Christmas as our contribution to the seasonal spirit in Settle. Featuring lords-a leaping, maids a milking, swans a swimming and all the rest, including of course the partridge in its pear tree, would Christmas be Christmas without this excellent work by our local knitters?

Since their first showing in 2014 the 78 tiny all knitted figures that act out the words of the Twelve Days of Christmas have amazed visitors and set many of them reciting the lines about what their true love gave to them on each of those days of Christmas.

The eight ladies knitting who produced the exhibition are Settle residents: Jeanne Carr, Catherine Holland, Shirley Crosby, Alison Tyas, Joyce Elliot, Jacqui Lewington, Betty Beesley and Janet Lillywhite. Credit is due too to Barbara Rigby who designed the window panels, giving the exhibition a truly festival spirit.

It has long been believed that the words of the Twelve Days of Christmas, did not reflect the rather odd collection of gifts given to a fiancée who would probably have preferred a box of chocolates, but were a device used by 16th century Roman Catholics to convey the basics of their belief without arousing the suspicions of non-Catholics.

 

Eight knitters knitting

Eight knitters knitting

 




Portrait of Ingleborough revisited

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25 October 2022- 9 December 2022

This exhibition gave locals and visitors a fresh chance to enjoy the much praised collection of photographs featuring the people who live and work in the shadow of  Ingleborough, the most imposing of Yorkshire’s Three Peaks.

In 2018, local photographer Hilary Fenten photographed people who contribute to the character of the Ingleborough area. The collection aimed to capture a snapshot in time of the landscape’s social history. Hilary has been living for over 25 years in Selside, a small hamlet almost at the head of Ribblesdale in the Yorkshire Dales National Park.

The photographs were published in a book – A Portrait of Ingleborough. The project was part of Stories in Stone, a scheme of conservation and community projects concentrated on the Ingleborough area, which ran from 2016 to 2021 and was developed by the Ingleborough Dales Landscape Partnership, led by Yorkshire Dales Millennium Trust (YDMT), and supported by the National Lottery Heritage Fund.

This exhibition included a selection of those photographs.

For more information about Stories in Stone, including resources such as A Portrait of Ingleborough and a wide range of other books, reports and videos (many of them free!), please visit the scheme website. storiesinstone.org.uk

To find out more about how YDMT works to support the people, landscape and wildlife of the Yorkshire Dales and surrounding areas, and see how you can support us, please visit the YDMT website. ydmt.org

If this project interests you, you might also like: All Our Land An innovative project run by YDMT where young people have come together with artists and environmental scientists to respond creatively to the relationship between our local landscape and the impact of climate change. An exhibition of the work is currently at The Folly, Settle. The project is part of the Wild Ingleborough initiative, led by Natural England and Yorkshire Wildlife Trust, and supported by YDMT.

Our Common Cause: Our Upland Commons YDMT is a regional partner in this project that aims to conserve and enhance the commons heritage in upland England, specifically within the Lake District, Dartmoor, the Yorkshire Dales and the Shropshire Hills. Ingleborough, Grassington Moor and Brant Fell are the three commons of the Yorkshire Dales. The project is led by the Foundation for Common Land (www.foundationforcommonland.org.uk/our-upland-commons) and backed by a further 25 organisations, including YDMT. YDMT Grants YDMT can provide funding for projects that help us to support the people, landscape and wildlife of the Dales and surrounding areas. For more information, please email grants@ydmt.org or phone 015242 51002.




About Energy: Acting Locally Thinking Globally

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10 September- 24 October 2022

For our first exhibition of the autumn, following our summer of maintenance work, Gallery on the Green  teamed up with Action on Climate Emergency – Settle and Area (ACE) to present an  exhibition that addressed the two most pressing issues facing us: how to cope with ever increasing energy bills; and how to build a sustainable, affordable, equitable low carbon future.

The first section of the exhibition was about cutting domestic fuel bills. ACE  assembled the best advice they had seen on reducing household energy usage. Visitors were invited to add their own ideas by use of the post-it notes supplied

The second section featured the local energy plan that is being developed by ACE.
The recent extreme weather experienced locally, nationally and internationally is a warning of serious climate collapse induced by global heating. The frequency and intensity of disastrous events will continue to increase in line with increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations which are trapping heat from escaping our atmosphere. The quicker we act, the more we will limit the eventual severity of the problem.
Local action is being led by Settle and District’s Action on Climate Emergency Group, ACE Settle, who are consulting on how best to decarbonise the energy we use in our homes and businesses. The draft plan displayed in the exhibition and shown below was developed at a workshop held on 21st May by representatives drawn from across our community. Various low carbon technologies to generate electricity and heat homes and businesses were considered along with their potential impact on our landscape.
Again, using the post-it pads provided, the organisers welcomed  feedback
on this plan.

About ACE
Action on Climate Action Settle and Area (ACE Settle) is a group of community activists with local knowledge and relevant expertise who have been taking action on the climate emergency since March 2019.
ACE seeks to raise awareness of the climate emergency through the work of four themed groups (energy, transport, food and biodiversity), monthly Green Cafes, hosting quarterly conferences, and by contributing to consultations and planning applications. ACE works in partnership with statutory authorities, voluntary organisations, community groups and individuals who share the vision and urgency to make a just transition to a sustainable net zero carbon community.
For more on ACE Settle…visit our website ace settle follow our
Facebook and Twitter accounts as @ACESettle, or email us at:
acesettleandarea@gmail.com

Paul Cochrane from ACE installing the exhibition

Paul Cochrane from ACE installing the exhibition

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Summer 2022 – Gallery closed for maintenance

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The gallery was  closed for maintenance during the summer of 2022. After 13 years as an art gallery and before that considerably more in its previous existence as a telephone box, the ‘building’ is starting to show its age and so, for just about the first time since we opened in 2009 we decided it was time for a good clean and some thorough painting.

As you can probably imagine whilst this is not a big building there is quite a lot of intricate work to be done around all those tiny window panes and our painter was a man who takes pride in doing a thorough job so the gallery was closed throughout July and August reopening with an exhibition produced in conjunction with Action on Climate Emergency Settle and Area (ACE).

 

 




Oil pastel north

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 30 April – 24 June 2022

The harsh landscape of the North, from Settle to Shetland, was the inspiration behind Peter Osborne’s second exhibition at Gallery on the Green in two and a half years.

In 2019 he showed his water colours of the out-barns of Bowland, drawing attention to the deteriorating state of buildings that once were central to the local farming economy. For this exhibition he used the deeper and more intense oil pastels to look at the relationship between the hard landscape of the North and its spiritual history.

The Lancaster based artists said: “The title ‘Oil Pastel North’ is two-fold: medium and subject, but they combine in a particular way.  The subject ‘North’ is, physically, from Settle to Shetland, but more deeply something else.  North is hard and challenging, further north more spiritual.  In the exhibition the physical things seen and the spiritual things encountered are juxtaposed:  near a Shetland cliff where the sea smashes into a wound of a geo, is the martyrdom of Edmond (from Pickering Church) into whose flesh tear the arrows.  The weather-beaten rocks of Brimham reflect the damage to an ancient Anglo-Saxon reredos.  Weather-torn posts on the bare fells take on the persona of the ‘old rugged cross’.  Thus images are shown together less by subject than for deeper rapport.

Peter said: “In the small scale of the Gallery on the Green these themes needed more intensity than water-colour can give but which oil pastel can.  It is not good for detail but it has a density in both colour and application.  It offers richness of colour, with clear hues and contrasts, and also the possibility of more expressive marks and handling, even impasto.  It feels more suitable for accommodating the hardness and suffering of the subject.”

Peter Osborne was born in Norfolk. His early memories are of foghorns at sea and bitterns booming!  Aged seven, he was invited by bird artist Roland Green to learn in his studio: cleaning brushes, meeting artist friends and learning to  draw.

After university he undertook post-graduate study at the Courtauld Institute, before going on to lecture at art colleges in Lancaster and Blackpool, eventually becoming  head of school at Blackburn.

Peter has exhibited at Abbot Hall, London Regent Street and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park . He has also featured in the Lunesdale Studio Trail.

He is chairman of Christian Arts, and in that capacity has exhibited  in Worcester Cathedral and Lancaster Priory Church.

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