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turntable gallery is located in the heart of Grimsby’s historic fish dock, North East Lincolnshire. Founded and directed by two internationally renowned artists - Dale Wells and Darren Neave (RCA), who met whilst studying at the University of Lincoln. Their aim is to promote contemporary arts and through it, build a stronger, more inclusive community.

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In March 2022 we launched turntable gallery on Victoria Street, Grimsby. We hosted many shows and events at this creative space until January 2024. Shows included artists such as Jake Chapman, Jeremy Deller and Chad McCail, to name but a few. Our event programme was busy too, with poetry evenings and a zine festival. We have now moved our gallery/creative space to the Grimsby dock area.

Our Grimsby dock location is kindly being provided by WE1 Heritage.

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Our unique space will be used to continue showing contemporary offerings, with the same passion and the same creativity our audience deserve from everything we do. We will continue to work with exciting, upcoming artists and will always champion our town, and its artistic resurrection! As always, our aim has been to build upon our area’s resilient foundations. To reclaim and repair our artistic heritage, and to forge a new, vibrant art scene which nourishes and reifies art of all stripes.

What's On:

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unloud
Ashley Gallant, Charles Fox & Group Show
15 February - 15 March 2025

Some art is loud, it screams with its politics wears its heart on its sleeve. Other art is quiet and doesn’t say anything at all, its mute in its purposelessness. Curator and photographer Ashley Gallant says ‘I have never been interested in either. I am interested in the un-loud.’

This exhibition brings together three smaller displays of internationally recognised photographers that all share an uneasiness, or a feeling of the unfinished or unsaid in the photographs displayed under the theme of the unloud.

‘The unloud is Images, texts, art works that seem tranquil on the surface but contain a silent deafening scream. The landscape that hides the mass grave.The tree that hung the man.The village green, It’s like an M R James story, Oh, Whistle and I’ll come to you, my lad’ 

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Beneath the Surface
Lucy's Art Club
18 January - 1 February 2025

Private View: Saturday 18 January 2025. Quiet preview at 13:00. Main viewing from 14:00 – 16:00.

Lucy's Art Club's first group exhibition celebrates the culmination of six months of creative sessions, mentorship, and shared discussions about art and exhibition preparation. Together, we’ve learned, experimented, and curated a diverse collection of work that we’re excited to share!

We invite you to look beneath the surface to discover the deeper meanings and stories within each piece.

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GRIMETTE - a prologue
Al Dunham & Jenna Black
8 - 11 January 2025

Poet Al Dunham has spent much of his young life trying to grapple with his own connection to Grimsby culture, finding no definitive answers, but discovering a hell of a lot of conflicting emotions.

To pull back the layers, Al has partnered with local street photographer, Jenna Black, to strip Grimsby down to its kecks – writing poems based on images alone, using the rawest words that come to mind when prompted with photos representing different aspects of Grimsby life: friendship, love, heritage, class and mental health.

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whispers of weight and wind
Sophie Dickinson
30 November - 21 December 2024

With great pleasure, turntable gallery, in conjunction with WE1 Heritage, would like to introduce the gallery’s inaugural artist in residence, Sophie Dickinson. Launching her debut with us at the start of November, Sophie’s practice folds in deep observation with a forensic material enquiry, encompassing sculptural creations, ceramics, and found objects in equal measure.

This marks the turntable’s ongoing commitment to nurturing fresh young talent and promoting exciting new opportunities for contemporary artists to thrive and make their voices heard in an award-winning environment.

Community Projects:

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Renovation of Royal Naval Patrol Service Memorial, Grimsby Docks 
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19 September 2024

turntable gallery was delighted to be awarded the incredible opportunity to preserve the memorial to the memories of those valiant minesweepers who lost their lives, clearing the estuary and beyond, of enemy mines.

As part of the gallery’s ongoing commitment to preserving out material heritage, and restoring the artifacts of our shared past, this project was one we relished. The task required sympathetic cleaning, re-establishing the worn lettering, and replacing the lost badges. The latter involving extensive research and contact with specialists in the field. These new ceramic pieces have been sourced from Italian artisans, and now adorn the central stone.

To restore this important monument, and preserve its legacy for future generations to remember these heroes by, has felt incredibly poignant, considering the hardships people face to this day, in the channel. Working on repainting the lettering of the faded names, and learning a little of the lives they lived, and left behind, has made their stories incredibly immediate. Would that their sacrifices be an end to wars, but sadly, not. All were left with is the too long list of names, etched in marble, defiant against the harsh gales and haunting waters. The least we can do is ensure the record of their passing is preserved.

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Renovation of The Family Group, Immingham
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28 September 2024

Words by restorer Dale Wells:

"It has been an incredible day. In many ways it was the summation of many months of rescuing, researching, and restoring the monumental body of The Family Group and the drawing forth of the memories and emotions it both marks and elicits.

With the help of Darren Neave, Kerry Henderson, Oasis Academy Immingham, Blackrow Group, Grimsby, Cleethorpes & District Civic Society, and a million other amazing souls, not least those who donated to the restoration fund, this iconic work is back where it belongs. Not in a recycling centre, but back and proud on the wall of the Oasis Academy, Immingham.

I feel so incredibly privileged to have had the opportunity to restore the work to something of its former spirit, and will always count it as one of my most important achievements. More importantly, it shows that public sculpture is a force for good, a marker for poignancy and a symbol of place and endurance.

We can never let these things be taken from us, not simply slip from view."

Highlights:

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Erica Eyres - No One Knows I'm Dying
14 September - 25 October 2024
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Chad McCail - Even Rations
16 September - 14 October 2023
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Grimsby Zinefest
19 August 2023
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Red Sail Poetry Night
19 August 2023
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Jake Chapman - HINTERGRUND
10 September - 8 October 2022
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turntable gallery
  • 88 Wharncliffe Road
  • Grimsby
  • North East Lincolnshire
  • DN31 3QJ
  • UK
Opening Hours
  • Thursday to Saturday
  • 11:00 - 14:00
  • or by appointment