Biography
Ceri Hand Gallery was established in May 2008 by Ceri Hand, in a converted warehouse in the docks area of North Liverpool, in response to the lack of commercial galleries in the city. The gallery launched on 4 July 2008 with a group exhibition These Living Walls of Jet, relocating to London in March 2012 to a temporary space at 71 Monmouth Street, Covent Garden, WC2 (opening with Mel Brimfield: Between Genius and Desire) and finally moving to 6 Copperfield Street, SE1, in February 2013, (opening with Juneau Projects: The Infocalypse Stack). The last exhibition at Copperfield Street was Eleanor Moreton: Tales of Love and Darkness, which closed on 12 April 2014.The galleries ethos was to support artists at crucial stages of their career in the development, production and promotion of new work, staging ambitious exhibitions on and offsite. At the time of closing in April 2014 the gallery represented the following artists: Henny Acloque, Mel Brimfield, Samantha Donnelly, Matthew Houlding, Doug Jones, Grant Foster, Sophie Jung, Hannah Knox, Juneau Projects, Rebecca Lennon, Jen Liu and Eleanor Moreton.Other artists represented during the gallery’s lifespan included Nick Crowe & Ian Rawlinson, S Mark Gubb, Mimei Thompson, Bedwyr Williams and Petros Christostomou.
