MERCURY GALLERY
The Mercury Gallery was established by Gillian Raffles at 26 Cork Street, London in May 1964. Gillian Raffles, born Gillian Posnansky in London in December 1930, was one of a very small number of pioneering woman gallerists in Britain’s post-war art scene. The Gallery's aim was to exhibit and champion the work of young figurative British artists and to deal in sculpture, paintings and works on paper by 20th Century British and European Artists. In addition to its influential presence in London, the Mercury Gallery expanded to Edinburgh in August 1982, opening a branch on The Mound. In 2001 Gillian Raffles vacated both the gallery space in Cork Street and in Edinburgh but continued to specialise in the work of Henri Gaudier-Brzeska from her home at Chipping Ongar, Essex. The gallery now stages exhibitions in association with other galleries. Suffolk artists who exhibited at the Mercury Gallery include Joan Hodes; Tessa Newcomb and Paula Nightingale.
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