The Old School Gallery

17/06/2026

This weekend is Alnmouth Arts Festival the busiest weekend of the year for our little village.

Along with our excellent solo exhibition by Rose Ferraby we’ve also got an absolute wealth of new work in at the gallery.

New paintings by Eva Ray .schwab.art Andrew Tyzack Louise Body | Artist

We also welcome Laura Slater to to the gallery who we will be posting more about later this week.

We have a restock and some new affordable prints in our gift shop Scotts Of Alnmouth

Kooked North Catering serving food in the gallery yard.
There’s artist open houses, live music, events and a nice beach round the corner.

And the sun is coming out.

16/06/2026

We only have 5 places left for Rose’s workshop at the gallery next Tuesday, booking link in bio.

Join artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby at the Old School Gallery for a day spent exploring the layers of the Alnmouth coastline. We’ll be heading out for a walk to sketch and document the area’s hidden human and geological histories, before heading back to the gallery to turn those observations into collage. The workshop is designed to be experimental, focusing on how we can map stories through layering and abstraction. It’s a great chance to dive into the themes of Rose’s current exhibition, *Scarpland*, and no experience is needed—just bring a packed lunch, some sturdy shoes, and clothes you don’t mind being outdoors in for a couple of hours. We’ll provide the materials, plus plenty of coffee and cake back at the gallery. Suitable for 16+. Book your spot via the link in our bio.

13/06/2026

A huge thank you to everyone who came out last night for the exhibition preview of Scarpland by

Exhibition is open 7 days a week and runs until July 18th. So head over to Alnmouth for a day out. 🌞

11/06/2026

Littoral Layers, Marden Rocks
Just north of Alnmouth, Marden Rocks forms a promontory where geological time jostles amid wave cut platforms and eroding boulders. Epochs are sandwiched and squashed into a sea-sculpted stratigraphy. Rose was fascinated by the multiple scales of time here: geology, human histories and the daily rhythms of the tide rolled into one.

Scarpland by
Exhibition Preview 🍸
Friday 12th June 6pm - 8pm
Gin from and food from Kooked North Catering

⭐️⭐️All welcome please rsvp in bio⭐️⭐️

You can find out more about some of the sites and projects that have inspired the exhibition:

Information about Hepple Wilds can be found at hepplewilds.com

Information about the ‘Rewilding’ Later Prehistory project can be found at rewilding.oxfordarchaeology.com

Lordenshaws formed the subject of an episode of EarthWorks on BBC Radio 3 about the rock art at Lordenshaws. ‘Stone’ is available on BBC Sounds.

‘Sea Change’ was the subject of an episode of Open Country on BBC Radio 4 featuring Rose, Katrina Porteous and Phoebe Power. ‘Durham: Time and the Tides’ is available on BBC Sounds.

09/06/2026

Join us for the preview of archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby’s upcoming exhibition.

Scarpland
Friday 12th June, 6pm - 8pm
The Old School Gallery
Alnmouth

Come along, meet the artist, and get a first look at the collection before it opens to the public.
We’ll have welcome gin cocktails courtesy of the team at Hepple gin, and .north will be providing some delicious food to enjoy while you browse.
Entry is free, but please RSVP here to let us know you’re coming.
The exhibition will remain on display at the Old School Gallery until 13th July 2026.

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Rose Ferraby is a distinguished Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, recognized for her innovative synthesis of rigorous archaeological scholarship and creative practice. An expert in landscape history, she has held significant roles with the British School at Rome and has been honored with the prestigious Michael Marks Award for Poetry Illustration. Her interdisciplinary career bridges the gap between academic research and the arts, resulting in acclaimed collaborations with institutions like the BBC and the National Trust. Through a unique combination of field surveys, print-making, illustration, and sound art, Ferraby has established a reputation for translating complex historical landscapes into evocative, public-facing creative work.

Join us at the Old School Gallery for the preview opening of Scarpland, an exhibition by artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby.

09/06/2026

Join us for the preview of archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby’s upcoming exhibition.

Scarpland
Friday 12th June, 6pm - 8pm
The Old School Gallery
Alnmouth

Come along, meet the artist, and get a first look at the collection before it opens to the public.
We’ll have welcome gin cocktails courtesy of the team at Hepple gin, and .north will be providing some delicious food to enjoy while you browse.
Entry is free, but please RSVP here to let us know you’re coming.
The exhibition will remain on display at the Old School Gallery until 13th July 2026.

Rose Ferraby is a distinguished Research Associate in the Faculty of Classics at the University of Cambridge, recognized for her innovative synthesis of rigorous archaeological scholarship and creative practice. An expert in landscape history, she has held significant roles with the British School at Rome and has been honored with the prestigious Michael Marks Award for Poetry Illustration. Her interdisciplinary career bridges the gap between academic research and the arts, resulting in acclaimed collaborations with institutions like the BBC and the National Trust. Through a unique combination of field surveys, print-making, illustration, and sound art, Ferraby has established a reputation for translating complex historical landscapes into evocative, public-facing creative work.

Join us at the Old School Gallery for the preview opening of Scarpland, an exhibition by artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby.

08/06/2026

Philodendron
From our collection of new prints with Moira Frith.
A2 Print on heavy weight fine art paper 320gsm. (420mm X 590mm)

Available to purchase online.

Gallery open today until 4pm

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07/06/2026

Last day to catch the excellent exhibition open until 4pm

03/06/2026

Preview Evening Next Friday 12th June 6-8pm
Rose Ferraby | Scarpland

Come along, meet artist and archaeologist Rose Ferraby and get a first look at the collection before it opens to the public.

We’ll have welcome gin cocktails courtesy of the team at and .north will be providing some delicious food to enjoy while you browse.

ALL WELCOME
Entry is free, but please RSVP (link in bio) to let us know you’re coming.

Here’s one of Rose’s pieces from the exhibition -
‘Blawearie’ is just up the road from us near Chatton a magical area steeped in thousands of years of history.

Blawearie, (translates to ‘tired of the wind’)

Rose Ferraby -
The Cairnfields, Blawearie’ is an exploration of a cluster of Bronze Age funerary monuments on Old Bewick Moor. The cairns are stone built mounds, holding rock-lined cists for burials. Dating to around 2000 BC, these form part of a complex prehistoric landscape; a landscape where people have returned time and again. From the high cusp of land on which the cairnfield is rooted, we can see hillforts hunkered on scarps, rocks where rock art dances, and ruins and traces of agriculture through time.

I was drawn to this site because of this very particular – and very magical – sense of place. The collage combines different elements of the site and my memories of it. The horizon holds the Iron Age hillfort and ruined farmhouse, the heather and stone scarps, whilst the cairn itself draws together a sense of the tumble and cluster of stones, the voids and cists. Visiting the site, I was fascinated by the individual geology of the big stones that surround the excavated cairn like teeth in a smile. Each stone holds a miniature landscape of clefts and runnels, lichen and moss. And they have an almost totemic quality; faces reaching from the past. Somehow these forms reflected the greater feeling I had at the site: people felt close, rooted and present in the stones and land.

31/05/2026

Half a day off yesterday so I took the dog for a trip just up the road to the secret little chapel at Chillingham. Founded in the 12th century, the building retains some of its original Norman stonework— We specifically wanted to see the magnificent chapel tomb, which dates back to roughly 1443 and contains remarkably detailed, life-sized effigies of Sir Ralph Grey and Elizabeth FitzHugh. We even checked the base of the tomb to see if we could spot ‘Cuthbert.’

Afterward, we headed to Routin Linn waterfall and Lordenshaws to see some of the cup and ring marks ahead of archaeologist and artist Rose Ferraby’s exhibition. This area of Northumberland holds some of the highest concentrations of prehistoric rock art in Europe.
Not a bad afternoon!

Rose Ferraby Exhibition opens 12th June.

Cuthbert group show opens 18th July.