Please note: The Gallery is currently closed while we install our next exhibition. The Design Shop is still open for all your art supplies, ceramics, jewellery, stationary and contemporary homeware.
Coming Soon
Great Print 10
From Friday 4 April to Sunday 29 June
Celebrate the 10th anniversary of Rheged’s Great Print Exhibition! Discover over 1,000 stunning contemporary artworks from UK artists, showcasing screenprint, etching, lino block, and collagraph.
Immerse yourself in the magic of printmaking through film, as you watch the intricate processes unfold and see the final prints displayed alongside the plates and blocks that created them.
This year, we spotlight the timeless art of letterpress, featuring iconic tools, authentic typefaces, and bold new works. See how today’s printmakers are reinventing this classic technique with bold, contemporary designs.
Specially curated areas showcase Cumbrian printmakers, Sarah Cemmick and her British Wildlife prints and Sue Rowland’s latest project, that tells the fascinating stories of two forward thinking female Victorian explorers.
Don’t miss this celebration of modern printmaking.
Free Entry
Upcoming & Past Exhibitions
Libby Edmondson’s Pop-Up Print Shop
Now open near our Gallery, visit our pop-up print shop dedicated to the vibrant work of Libby Edmondson with over 20 prints to choose from as well as a range of her Hare and Cheetah Sculptures.
All the artwork is available to take away on the day of your visit. You simply fill in the order form and take it the Gallery Desk where the team will be delighted to help.
Open daily 10am-5pm
Community Gallery
Silver / Splice
A Carlisle College art project reflecting on 25 years of Keswick Film Festival.
Open from Friday 14 February to Sunday 20 April
How do films work? What do we carry away from a film that stays with us? Breaking down images, emotions, dialogue, music, into stories that become our own?
The Art and Design Foundation course at Carlisle College has worked with the Keswick Film Festival since 2013, becoming a key part of the students’ experience as they learn about their chosen disciplines through the act of transcribing the ideas and themes of one artform into another.
This year, we have also dipped into the festival programmes of the last 25 years, making our own viewing lists of those classic films an art student should know.
The work you see before you has been influenced by the freedom of 1960s and 70s Eastern European posters, where artists, unrestricted by the commercial imperatives of Hollywood, made mad, bold images. Some are reminiscent of the energy of Peter Doig’s painted posters for his STUDIOFILMCLUB arthouse cinema in Trinidad.
The exhibition is fundamentally about the artforms across our course’s specialized disciplines and the visual conversations these provoke.
UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design at Carlisle College of the Arts
This one-year, post-A Level course in Art & Design develops and encourages creativity, self-awareness, creative skills and analysis.
With so many different degree courses in Art and Design subjects it is more important than ever to feel confident in your choice of direction and equipped with the necessary skills for study at degree level. We have a long history of guiding pre-degree students to discover and develop their strengths and make an informed choice of specialism, including Fine Art, Fashion, Graphic Design, Illustration and 3D.
Creative Classes
