A BT telephone box has been converted into what is claimed to be the world’s smallest art gallery.
‘Contributions are welcomed from members of the public and must be no larger than a postcard,’ says the gallery’s ‘curator’ Professor Roger Taylor (pictured) who lives nearby the phone box in Settle, North Yorkshire.
‘For example, for the opening exhibition we have postcards from local artists and schoolchildren, as well as examples by more renowned figures such as Ansel Adams, Paul Hill, Samuel Palmer and Toulouse Lautrec.
‘We are very excited to see such a creative use of the phone box and it’s great to have a bit of fun as well as involve the wider community in a contemporary art and photography project,’ said Taylor who is Professor of Photographic History at De Montfort University.
The decommissioned box was restored in a project led by local residents, with help from the local council.
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Yes…I see the phone box gallery concept is expanding…hopefully pieces will stay in it for longer than ours…at the Halesowen(original) Phone Box Gallery.
just for the sake of clarity…its not ours. We believe it is a local village initiative at Settle in Yorkshire. We are of course in Cumbria, but no doubt we can learn from Yorkshire and Halesowen.
…oh…yes I do mean ‘our’ in its most universal sense of the word…
…to make ‘art’ the heart of a community, I think is definitely be the way forward…as it has been in the past throughout all cultures…
…fundamentally