The Tiny Art Gallery Manual

How to set up and promote your own tiny art gallery

Learn how to think inside the box with 116 pages of practical advice to help you run your own tiny gallery and case studies from

• George Thom — Groock’s Gallery
• Jack Woodward — Cardboard Monkey Gallery
• Lisa Fitzgerald — The Doll’s House Art Gallery
• Sally Eldars — The Open Dresser Gallery
• Sam Toft — The Dog & Bone Gallery
• Hondartza Fraga — Beyond Scale Gallery
• Tiffany Struwig — Struwig Minature Gallery
• Indrė Ercmonaitė — Mini Gallery Don’t Cry

Curating the Tiny Cat Gallery taught me valuable lessons that help me work with full size galleries now. This book is where I share that advice.

Think small!

AW2020 sees a new pop up in the form of Tiny Cat Gallery³, this time it is a traditional white cube gallery. It is staffed and visited by small plastic cats.

TCG³ is constructed of glued and nailed sustainable OSB. It is painted white inside. The dimensions of the rear wall are just 18.2cm x 18.3cm.

The gallery has no theme and is open to submissions and proposals. Due to the light-hearted approach of the gallery I cannot show anything of a seriously political or sad nature. Exhibitions do not have to be about cats. 

The piece was created as a response to the scale of the gallery and as an image that would attract the resident audience of cats. The subject is deliberately riffing upon a cat who plays poker for FISH!

1/5 – limited edition digital print

Tiny reproductions of larger pieces, each representing a different strand of Ryland's recent work. Through a series of loose painting and analogue and digital drawing techniques he pushes the work to abstraction.

Original work. 95 x 63mm, gesso primed paper mounted on foam board.

Exploring the immensely rewarding relationship that is being a human lucky enough to live with cats in their life. A lifetime of bottled up cats and art flow out. A journey of love and loss, of joy and pain.

Original work. pencil, pastel, sharpies and fine liners; watercolour, brusho, acrylics and textiles, papers and found items.

Eldars works intuitively and spontaneously using different techniques and materials. She also paints large seascapes and landscapes, which allow her to express feelings and emotions freely and impulsively, telling stories with bold messy shapes, lines, and bright colours.

Iorio turns voices of poets into images. She reimagines spectrogram into artworks as the unique representation of the human voice. You can see the colours of each voice and listen with your eyes. 

"Liminal" takes its name from both of the word’s definitions that the artist finds very relevant – 1. relating to a transitional or initial stage of a process; 2.occupying a position at, or on both sides of, a boundary or threshold.

Watercolour & watercolour pencil on Strathmore paper 10 cm x 15 cm
Handmade silk fibre paper with  inclusions