Gallery Cafe

General information

In May 2002 seven local Prince Albert artists with a desire to create an exhibition space to show their work formed a ‘collective’ and the Prince Albert Gallery was born. Two of the original seven, myself and Mary Ann Botha now run the gallery which has grown phenomenally over the years and has shown work by acclaimed photographer David Goldblatt as well as bronzes by Guy du Toit and paintings by local artists George Coutouvidis and JP Meyer amongst many others.
Our main mission is to help support local artists to bring their work to a wider public. The gallery attracts vistors from all over the world and hence our artists have their works in collections worldwide.
As part of our aim to bring attention to our local artists we have instituted a bi-annual Prince Albert Art Festival (PArt). The PArt 2012 Festival had works by almost 130 artists in 17 venues around the town – these included solo exhibitions by William Kentridge, Mikhail Subotsky, Herman Niebuhr and Strijdom van der Merwe amongst many others. PArt 2014 will be held this September with exhibitions of works by Harry de Zitter and many others.