The Ceri Hand Gallery is a commercial contemporary art

Contemporary art

Contemporary art can be defined variously as art produced at this present point in time or art produced since World War II. The definition of the word contemporary would support the first view, but museums of contemporary art commonly define their collections as consisting of art produced...

 gallery based in Liverpool

Liverpool

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, England

England

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. It opened on 4 July 2008.

The gallery shows up to ten contemporary art exhibition

Art exhibition

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s per year, providing artist

Artist

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s with opportunities to develop their ideas and new bodies of work, in solo and group shows.

The exhibitions programme includes represented artists alongside emerging and mid-career international artists. In addition to exhibitions at the gallery, their aim is to support artists through publishing, commissioning new work on and off-site, attending art fairs and securing them opportunities at other galleries.
Advice is available to anyone wishing to start an art collection.

The Ceri Hand Gallery is at 12 Cotton Street, Liverpool L3 7DY, United Kingdom.
It is open Wednesday to Saturday, 10am–6pm.