Hales Gallery
Tea Building
7 Bethnal Green Road
London
E1 6LA
T: 020 7033 1938
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Open: 11am-6pm Wed-Sat
Hales Gallery opened in 1992 as an alternative space in Deptford, South London. From this unlikely venue, Paul Hedge and Paul Maslin successfully launched the careers of a number of emerging British artists at that time, including among many others, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Mike Nelson and Sarah Jones.
The venue's cafe became a social focal point for artists and created an environment for the development and exchange of ideas. Both the gallery and cafe were regularly written about in the art press and national and international newspapers, attracting worldwide media attention.
In 1997 Hales became a commercial gallery and began to represent artists from international backgrounds including Tomoko Takahashi, Spencer Tunick, Hew Locke and Hans Op de Beeck. In 2004 Hales moved to its current gallery space designed by architects HawkinsBrown in the Tea Building in London's East End.