Entry to the visual arts gallery is absolutely free, so please drop in any time. From local amateur artwork to contemporary craft or photography, our programme is varied, so our exhibitions appeal to all tastes. The gallery has recently hosted exhibitions with a local theme, like the Power Station’s cooling towers; to national themes, like the Fourth Plinth; to open exhibitions for artists from far and wide. See our website for ‘How to Exhibit your work at Cornerstone’.
We encourage you to share your thoughts on our exhibitions, recently one visitor to Jane Goodall’s exhibition of landscape photography said ‘Really amazing quality and light, we may be online to buy one’.
Artists value the opportunity to show and sell their work through Cornerstone and we are proud that inside many local homes you’ll find unique works of art - seen and purchased right here - hanging on the walls!
Down's Syndrome Association
Shifting Perspectives
1 March – 1 April
An exhibition that examines the lives of people of all ages living with Down's syndrome. It explores their connection to photography, the photographers and the changes throughout the course of their lives. In many ways the work reflects a contemporary trend in documentary photography, where practitioners are no longer purely objective observers with little understanding of the complexity of the situation; they are personally involved with their subject matter.
Brenda Hayden and Tom Crask
5 April – 6 May
Two artists present their collections of artwork, inspired by the natural world. Brenda’s painting, prints and mixed media work seeks to explore the landscape at the point where land meets sea. Wood and water have been a running theme in both her large scale paintings and intimate etchings. Whereas, Tom’s three-dimensional memory boxes are created and compiled from found objects in beautiful hand-crafted glass-fronted containers.