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GU3 1DQ, United Kingdom

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LAST CHANCE!

24th January 2012

This week is your last chance to see the 'Big Issues: Celebrating Art For All' exhibition, which finishes this Sunday 29th January.

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Bill Oddie Opens Watts Gallery Exhibition

11th January 2012

The latest Watts Gallery exhibition 'A Dedication: To Beauty and Innocence' was opened last night by special guest Bill Oddie.

The exhibition showcases G.F. Watts's painting A Dedication which he bestowed 'To all those who love the beautiful and mourn over the senseless and cruel destruction of bird life and beauty'.

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Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at Watts Gallery

23rd December 2011

Watts Gallery will now close for the Christmas holidays and will re-open again on Monday 2 January 2012.
Wishing you a Merry Christmas and a happy new year from all at Watts Gallery. We look forward to welcoming you back in the new year!

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Thank you to all who have donated via The Big Give!

12th December 2011

Your donations have raised a fantastic £43,281, including Gift Aid. Our Art for All learning and outreach programmes will now continue in 2012.

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Former Prisoner at HMP Send talks about the Art For All Learning programme and the positive impact on her life

6th December 2011

"I would like to tell you about how Watts Gallery has changed my life. First of all I was brought up in care and I left school at 14 years with no education except very basic skills. When I came to prison had never drawn or painted in my life, matchstick men really were my limit! To first learn how to draw and then learn how to use paint was such a joy to me, I felt I had discovered the eighth wonder of the world."

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Miranda Ash, representative of Street Level Arts comments on the Art For All Learning Programme at Watts Gallery

5th December 2011

"The Art for All Programme at Watts Gallery has offered the members of Street Level Art Group a place of focus and stability at time when everything else in their lives often feels in a state of flux."

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Helen Bowcock at the Hazelhurst Trust supports the Big Give Campaign

5th December 2011

“Hazelhurst Trust is a small family trust that my husband and I set up a few years ago when we sold our company and we chose to make the most of our donations to local organisations and one of those is the Watts Gallery."

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Deborah Gourlay exhibition now open. View the catalogue on our website

29th November 2011

The exhibition 'Deborah Gourlay: Liquid Light' has opened to the public today. You can view the catalogue for the exhibition here