Snippets of the journey from dilapidated Victorian pharmacy to contemporary art space

Cue The Black Book

Next couple of weeks were a dusk to dawn blur of adrenaline-laced ideas during the day and scribbles in the middle of the night, formulating an exciting blueprint for a vibrant, successful new gallery.  A wish list of artists, exceptional makers, sitting at the heart of the big plan. Synchronicity of heritage and contemporary.

What better location to promote the wonderful art of making and championing the unique processes used by contemporary artists and makers than an old pharmacy?  And so The Alchemist Gallery was born.