Archive: This programme is from 2024. The Green Man Gallery closed to the public in December 2024.
In 2024, Buxton’s Green Man Gallery announced a summer season with 70 performances of 35 live shows during Buxton Festival Fringe in July, alongside exhibitions by resident and guest artists.
The summer programme also listed workshops, classes and a participatory concert in June.
Summer Exhibitions at The Green Man Gallery
The John Bull exhibition opened on 3 July 2024 and was scheduled to continue until the end of August, followed by a guest exhibition of paintings by Jenny Black inspired by nature and legend.
Music meets Art and Poetry
The programme listed a recital-discussion on 23 June by viola player Henrietta Hill, with local viola players invited to take part beforehand.
Hill was also billed as part of Trilogy Ensemble for two July concerts on the theme of music, art and freedom, inspired by Jeff Perks’ exhibition and work by the gallery’s artists.
The programme also listed oboist Rees Webster, presenting music and poetry inspired by Ovid’s Metamorphoses, and students from Sheffield Music Academy playing Mendelssohn’s octet, written when he was 16.
The gallery’s Fringe programme includes comedy, theatre, spoken word and music
The gallery’s Fringe programme covered comedy, theatre, spoken word and music in its former ballroom. Folk and acoustic performers included Charlie Moritz, Danielle Banks, Ian Bowns and Hannah Brine with guitarist Clive Gregson.
The programme listed Annette Gregory and Basin Street Jazz and Blues; songs and stories from Texas by the Dimestore Dirtbags; and pianist and former GP Stuart Bootle, also appearing with Will Hawthorne’s band Responsibly Sauced. Gregory’s show was later cancelled, according to the Fringe archive.
Harp guitarist Jon Pickard was listed with Music & Myth: Legends from the Celtic Isles; singer-songwriter Joe Bayliss was also listed.
Comedy, theatre and spoken word
The upstairs Workshop Room was a Fringe performance space for comedy, theatre and spoken word. The programme included Samantha Day’s The Booby Trap and The Generations Game, Abigail Rolling’s Sh*t Lawyer, Mark Speed’s The End of the World Show, A Political Brunch with Jesters Dublin, comedian Henry Churniavsky, and Miss Angela Bra with Annie Sup in DumbGenz and DragQueenz.
Writer and performer John Arthur Sweet was billed with Outside, in the Laneway, Under the Stars, and poet Rebecca Faro with her collection Catching the Fall.
The theatre programme included Ray Castleton’s Without Malice Or Ill Will, marking 40 years since the miners’ strike and the Battle of Orgreave, and Debbie Cannon’s The Remarkable Deliverances of Alice Thornton. Cannon’s show had been entered for the original 2020 programme before the pandemic disrupted it. The 2020 Fringe still went ahead, mostly online, and Cannon contributed Three Voices. The 2024 programme also listed Arancini: Balls of Fun and Stephen Powell’s Life’s Little VicToms.
In 2024, gallery events manager Caroline Small advised booking Fringe shows in advance.
Beyond the Fringe – Explore the Gallery Exhibitions
In late July and August 2024, the gallery welcomed visitors to its exhibitions, studios and shop, with art, ceramics, jewellery, textiles, glass, prints and cards on display.
In the 2024 announcement, events manager Caroline Small said: “The very sad closure of Buxton Museum and Art Gallery last year has had an impact on our footfall as fewer people are venturing up the hill to our part of town!” She added: “Many people have assumed that we are closed too but we have continued to fly the flag for art and culture in Higher Buxton.”
The 2024 programme also included a landscape workshop with Geoff Chilton and pottery tuition. Regular groups at the gallery included life drawing, Buxton Sketchers, a singing group and Buxton Spoken Words.
The Green Man Gallery was at Hardwick Hall, behind the museum’s former Terrace Road building.
The Green Man Gallery closed to the public on 22 December 2024. Read the gallery’s closure notice.
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