Gallery Oldham

• Name — Gallery Oldham • Established — 2002 • Location — Oldham, Greater Manchester, England • Type — Art gallery • Website — galleryoldham.org.uk

Designed by architects Pringle Richards Sharratt, Gallery Oldham was completed in its original form in February 2002. The art gallery integrates local museum and gallery services. An extension to include the £13 million Oldham Library and Lifelong Learning Centre opened in April 2006. The building has library and learning facilities.

Programming incorporates Oldham's art, social and natural history collections alongside touring work, newly commissioned and contemporary art, international art and work produced with local communities. The gallery holds the civic collection of Oldham and much of that of the wider Metropolitan Borough of Oldham.

It has a permanent display called Oldham Stories, exhibiting objects and specimens from across the collections and two temporary exhibition galleries. Gallery Oldham has one of the busiest exhibitions programmes in the region. Exhibitions mix touring shows with work from the gallery's own collection of art, social history and natural history. The gallery holds work by local artists including Helen Bradley, William Stott and Alan Rankle and its collections include work by British artists L. S. Lowry, John William Waterhouse and Bridget Riley. In recent years the gallery has built up a collection of studio pottery and displays ceramic works by modern makers.

• Illustration — Oldham from Glodwick by James Howe Carse, 1831 • Illustration — The Departure of the Crusaders by John Everett Millais, 1858 • Illustration — The Mackerel Take by James Clarke Hook, 1865 • Illustration — George Herbert and His Mother by Charles West Cope, 1872 • Illustration — Roses by Henri Fantin-Latour, 1879 • Illustration — Portrait of Thomas Oldham Barlow by John Everett Millais, 1886 • Illustration — Paid Off by Frederick Daniel Hardy, 1890 • Illustration — The Death of Cleopatra by John Collier, 1890 • Illustration — Circe Offering the Cup to Ulysses by John Collier, 1891 • Illustration — Manchester Ship Canal, Eastham Dock by Benjamin Williams Leader, 1891 • Illustration — Napoleon on the Sands at Boulogne by Andrew Carrick Gow, 1895 • Illustration — The Last Furrow by Henry Herbert La Thangue, 1895 • Illustration — The Drinking Place by Stanhope Forbes, 1900 • Illustration — In the Dublin Mountains by William Orpen, 1909