Tue 3 - Sat 21 Dec
The Year That Was was an end of year celebration of the exhibitions and public artworks shown at the Bluecoat in 2024. The exhibition featured limited edition prints, posters and original artworks from our gallery programme and cultural legacies programme. Throughout December, the Bluecoat transformed into a space where visitors could not only see art but buy it to enjoy in their homes or gift to friends and family.
Our main display featured artists such as Michelle Williams-Gamaker, Roxy Topia and Paddy Gould, Babak Ganjei, Tess Gilmartin, Joshua Clague and more. Our end of year display was also an opportunity to reflect back on a year that has explored who artists are, how the future will be shaped, and how we might connect with our histories.
Each weekend of December our galleries were transformed into a bustling marketplace, beginning with Bluecoat Art Fair which hosted stalls from Bluecoat’s creative community, print studio members and beyond. Later in the month, Bloom Makers Market and still Out-of-Print book fair brought their fairs to the space.
