BYARD ART
Byard Art first opened in Nottingham’s Byard Lane, on the top floor of a Victorian Lace Factory in 1993. A commercial gallery, specialising in contemporary visual and applied arts. In September 1998, Byard Art moved into a gallery space at St Mary’s Passage, Cambridge with a permanent showcase for gallery artists’ original artwork, and which allowed the business to expand into the corporate and public sectors. During the summer of 2009 Byard Art moved to larger premises on King’s Parade, opposite King’s College and the gallery now encompasses 1,200 square feet of exhibition space over two floors and can host a rolling exhibition programme and has a permanent collection of gallery artists. Byard has developed an international reputation, supported a regular exhibition programme as well as participated in major art fairs, including London Art Fair and the Affordable Art Fair, London. Byard has also exhibited in Glasgow, Edinburgh, Dublin, Newcastle and Bristol as well as regularly showing at the Affordable Art Fairs in New York, Amsterdam, Brussels, Milan and Hong Kong. Suffolk artists who exhibited with Byard Art include Bob Broadley, Sophie Elinor Martin, Annabel Mednick, Noel Myles, Jessica Oliver and Garry Raymond Pereira.