The Old Workshop Gallery - Delamore Calls 2026

The Old Workshop Gallery - Delamore Calls 2026

New to Delamore Stableyard Arts Quarter 2026, The Old Workshop Gallery welcomes core Devon arts collectives to have a presence at one of the regions best loved arts events. The opportunity offers your organisation and its members to exhibit and sell work, provide workshops and demonstrations, and promote your work and what you do to Delamore’s loyal audience of collectors in person.

Administrative Details

This opportunity is managed by Artizan Collective CIC on behalf of Delamore Arts. All enquiries for this opportunity are made to Artizan Collective CIC.

Offer

The opportunity includes:

• Week long exclusive occupancy of The Old Workshop Gallery for your organisation to curate and activate to your needs;

• Curate your own offer to your members to participate;

• Opportunity to provide workshops, demonstrations and drop-ins;

• Sell your work and activities commission free;

• Meet Delamore’s audiences face to face and share your activity;

• Promotion as part of the Delamore 2026 programme;

• WiFi and core services available;

• Optional support taking payments (5% fee applied).

What we’re looking for

A strong proposal will demonstrate that you will showcase your organisation and its members to a high standard and offer a mix of activity for audiences to engage with (i.e. buying and viewing work, meeting artists, taking part). It would be useful for us to know how you will engage your individual members in participating and what opportunities you plan to offer them. Ultimately, we want to see that all parties are enriched by the experience, your organisation, your members, and Delamore’s audience.

Important requirements to note:

• You are responsible for all communication with your members about how you manage your occupancy and shape the opportunity with them. We can manage this for anadditional fee;

• You are responsible for managing the stewarding of your space and you are required to have your space open to Delamore’s audiences for the entirety of your booked period during their opening hours (10:30-4:30 daily);

• You are responsible for setting and curating your space and whilst some display equipment is available it is your responsibility to ensure you have everything you need;

• You must hold sufficient public liability insurance and we recommend all your participating artists also have their own exhibitions insurance as their work is displayed at their own liability unless you choose otherwise to indemnify them.

Workshops, Demonstrations and Drop-ins

Demonstrations of creative practice have proven really popular with Delamore audiences. We trialled workshops for the first time in 2025 with moderate success, but found drop-ins, with a low fee and no requirement to pre-book, were really popular.

You are welcome to offer pre-booked workshops, and we will support your marketing efforts by sharing any posts you tag us in, but these are largely delivered at your own discretion and our recommendation based on 2025 is that drop-ins and demos are more suited to this setting. Where you do choose to offer pre-booked workshops, you should note that all participants are required to pay entry to Delamore, and your workshop should therefore include time in its schedule for participants to explore the rest of the events offer.

Fees

There is a £600.00 fee for the space which entitles you to exclusive use for a 1-week period with 0% commission fees.

There is no application fee for this opportunity.

Dates

Set up day for all bookings is Monday and in some circumstances, we may be able to receive items the Sunday evening prior to your booking. You are welcome to open on the Monday if you are ready but otherwise slots are considered to be Tuesday-Sunday.

The four available date blocks (inclusive of setup day) are as follows:

• 4^th – 10^th May

• 11^th – 17^th May

• 18^th – 24^th May

• 25^th – 31^st May

The Space

The Old Workshop Gallery is a well-lit, white stone walled, cobble floored space, with large rolling door opening up onto the main arts courtyard. It comes equipped with a Stas Cliprail hanging system and plenty of wires and hooks for the display of hanging work, and a range of tables, plinths, easels and other display equipment, though we recommend bringing your own display resources as well to enable you to properly plan your display. By nature, the cobbled floor us uneven, so a stockpile of packing and blocks will be provided for levelling and stabilising of all surfaces.

There is a sink in the space to support workshops, and a covered entrance awning will be in place for added protection in the case of inclement weather. Stewards will have access to restrooms, small kitchen and WiFi. Food is also available from the onsite café.

The space is fully securable allowing displays to be left overnight and stay up for the duration of the week.

The space is welcoming, bright and spacious, but should not be considered, a “white box” gallery space.

Viewings will be available in January/February.

Applications

Applications can be made to juliebrandon@artizangallery.co.uk by sending the below:

• Full contact details for lead applicant

• A link to your organisation’s website

• Your preferred date block

• Maximum 1 page summary of your proposed use of the space to include as a minimum:

  • How you will use the space

  • How you will offer the opportunity to your members

  • What activity you will deliver (e.g. exhibition, workshops, demonstrations)

    
    

Invitations

We will solicit applications from known organisations. If you represent a group and wish to be invited to make an application, please send details of your work and membership to juliebrandon@artizangallery.co.uk