ARTS & CULTURE
THE STORE ROOM
Attached to the side of Devonshire Road wine shop Vinopolis, The Store Room by David Lolly Gallery is a new ‘micro gallery’ that’s promising to present a series of exciting contemporary art exhibitions over the coming months. The diminutive space, which will showcase the work of a small selection of British and Spanish artists, is run by Daniel Dunt, who was inspired to open a gallery after managing an arts magazine, Tallulah . “An actual gallery was always the aim. So last June I set up David Lolly Gallery with some of the artists that I’d featured in Tallulah . They were artists whose work I admired and who I felt were doing something different. I began with four artists, and I was doing a lot of online promotion. There was some traction, but it was fairly quiet, so I thought: I need a physical space. I decided to stop obsessing over getting international clients and bring it back to local people who are just interested in this kind of work.” The debut exhibition was Night Fishing , a series of bold abstracts by Gina Parr, followed by this month’s show by her photographer husband Ian Hoskin. Then, it’s over to Juan López Salvador, a Spanish sculptor working mainly with steel and wood. In addition to the initial series of month-long mini exhibitions, Daniel hopes to show work from David Lolly Gallery in other venues around the city in the future. “I am looking to grow The Store Room as a ‘must drop-in’ in Cambridge, for art lovers, collectors and tourists alike – to have this as a central base along with an online presence. And then from there I want to use this as a way to network and build a community of people that are interested in the arts in the city and then if I can, take some of the large-scale works and show them in other spaces. It’s not just about selling, it’s about promoting the artist and building their profile, because they’re fantastic.” davidlollygallery.com
Images (1st row, L-R) Gina Parr, Night approaches , Jim Cooke, Microscope series (2nd Row, apresando un reflejo , Ian Hoskin, Defaced #4060 (3rd Row, L-R) Juan López Salvador, Cliff, and Gina Parr, Clearing L-R) Gabriela Messuti, Hilos
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