Thelma Hulbert Gallery
Opening Times Wednesday - Saturday
10.00am - 4.00pm Free Admission
About The Thelma Hulbert Gallery
The Thelma Hulbert Gallery shows a permanent display of paintings by the late Thelma Hulbert together with an exciting programme of changing exhibitions featuring contemporary art and craft. Click here for information about the Thelma Hulbert permanent displays.
How to Find Us
The gallery is in Dowell Street, on the first floor of Elmfield House. Elmfield House is found through an archway at the end of the long-stay car park (parallel with the Lace Walk car park.) Both car parks are behind the Co-op. If unsure please ask at the Tourist Information Centre in the Lace Walk car park. 
Click here for a location map of the Thelma Hulbert Gallery (448KB - PDF Help).
Access
There is a ramp at the entrance. Disabled toilets are on the ground floor. A lift to the first floor is available.Current Exhibition
Orchard by Edwina Bridgeman
A Touring Exhibition By New Brewery Arts, Cirencester
4 July – 29 August 2009
Over the past twenty years many towns, villages and hamlets have lost orchards in their hundreds. These were once the focal point of community life, and valued as natural havens. An orchard is home to a variety of trees, plants, birds, insects and lichens as well as memory, emotion and magic. In this exhibition, Edwina Bridgeman re-creates the experience of being in one of these contemplative spaces, as distilled through her own vision. The viewer is invited to enter and enjoy.
Orchard is a radical new installation featuring three full sized orchard trees, a magical prop, a grazing sheep and a host of hidden wildlife, made out of discarded and undervalued everyday materials which are transformed by the artist. At the centre is a five foot ‘Tree of Life’ made from an old hat-stand covered in figures and animals, with Adam and Eve at the base. Over 20 smaller works re-create myths and stories associated with orchards.
Visitors will be encouraged to sit and write, draw, or compose poems about their memories of apple picking, cider drinking etc. at a battered old writing table under an apple bough. The artist will use these resources to make future works so the exhibition will grow as it tours around Britain.
Orchard Activities All events are free
Childrens Art Day 11 July 10am-2pm
Children’s Art Day in 2009 is run by engage, the National Association for Gallery Education and supported by the Clore Duffield Foundation. It is linked with Shine, the national festival celebrating talent in young people.
Selling Showcases
Double Elephant – Print workshop
Boxes
30 May – 1 August 2009
Using identical Perspex boxes, printmakers from Double Elephant print workshop, based in Exeter, have produced a series of unique works of art, each box presenting the individual artist with an opportunity to stamp their own identity and individual style of working within a small, uniform 'space.' The Double Elephant boxes are for sale. They also make an intriguing display in our illuminated showcases.
THELMA HULBERT GALLERY FEASIBILITY STUDY
On 2 October 2008 the Executive Board agreed the unanimous recommendation from Corporate Overview (Feasibility Study Option 2); that the finances be found to allow the authority (after taking back the ground floor of Elmfield House from the current lease holder) to expand the gallery and staffing to cover new activity throughout the whole building and ancillary areas. This will follow a business plan that, over four phases, and with grant aid, creates better financial viability and better opportunity, enhances Honiton, provides a better learning environment, better engages the local community and creates a cultural hub for future activity across East Devon.
Ishbel Ramsay, Arts Development, East Devon District Council 6 October 2008
Click here to read the Feasibility Study (163KB - PDF Help)
Exhibitions Leaflet
The Thelma Hulbert Gallery publishes a new exhibitions leaflet three times a year. If you would like to go on our mailing please contact the gallery on 01404 45006 or email thelmahulbert@eastdevon.gov.uk.
Please click here to download our Exhibitions Leaflet Summer 2009 (2378KB - PDF Help)
Friends of the Thelma Hulbert Gallery
Did you know that Friends of the Thelma Hulbert Gallery get 10% discount on all purchases from the gallery?
Friends of the Thelma Hulbert gallery also receive a regular newsletter, invitations to special Friends previews and events together with the knowledge that they actively support East Devon's first public art gallery in Honiton. Joining our Friends costs just £7.50. Click here for information about the Friends of the Thelma Hulbert Gallery.
Contacting us
Elmfield House
Dowell Street
Honiton
Devon
EX14 8LZ
Telephone: 01404 45006
E-mail: thelmahulbert@eastdevon.gov.uk
