About Us
Classroom Gallery is an artist-led gallery project based in Coventry, UK.
Established in 2011, under the name Pluspace Gallery, by a graduate from Coventry School of Art & Design (Matthew Macaulay) to provide exhibition and studio spaces in Coventry to address a critical gap in the regions art scene.
The gallery initially opened in the old Bridge Restaurant in Broadgate, and focused on developing group exhibitions that showcased professional artists from Coventry.
Shortly after opening the gallery began being used as a site to invite artists from outside the region and international artists to exhibit in Coventry.
In 2013, the gallery lost the use of the Broadgate building and eventually relocated to the Meter Rooms and then Through The Wall Projects.
In 2015, the gallery moved to a late Victorian Friends Meeting Hall on Lower Holyhead Road and changed name to Classroom. The gallery was now housed in what once was a classroom for girls.
Since this time the gallery shifted away from simply providing group exhibitions towards developing solo exhibitions of artists, residencies, historic exhibitions focusing on the region’s art scene, and providing an important space that supported initiatives within Coventry.
During this time the gallery developed a free and open lecture series and an artist development programme aimed at providing creative practitioners with knowledge, tools and opportunities.
During the COVID-19 lockdowns the gallery closed, and gave up it's space so that practitioners could use it as self contained studios. In 2022, the gallery began to work in a peripatetic mode.
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