Small House Gallery is a mini contemporary art curation project for a group of dolls houses, founded in 2016 by artist Eldi Dundee, SHG’s ‘chief curator’.

Two of the Small Houses currently reside on a long dresser in the corner of a living room in a South London home. The third house, Small House Cottage, having toured to Northumberland and Whitstable for three months at a time for an experimental series of remote co-curation projects, is now semi-permanently on tour at the Turntable Gallery, Grimsby, for a new programme to be co-curated between SHG’s Eldi, and Turntable’s directors, Dale Wells and Darren Neave (UPDATE SOON).

Exhibitions in Small House Gallery One & Two are predominantly displayed online, but they’re available to view in ‘meat-space’ when on tour to public spaces. Certain domestic or studio-based shows might be made viewable for limited in-person visits, by invitation or appointment.

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A short background…

Small House Gallery was revived during to the global chaos of 2020, after a year’s temporary creative hiatus, to offer solo and group shows to artists, in spite of gallery and studio closures. Artists were invited via Open Calls on social media and CuratorSpace to post their works (or hand-deliver them in a socially distanced way) and take part in thoughtfully curated displays of their small-scale original artworks, to be installed in a physical space – albeit a miniature one, mediated by computer, tablet or phone screen. Some selected artists sent maquettes for real-world monumental works they wanted to make if and when Life would allow. Others created smaller versions of works they made previously. And others already had small-scale making-practices pre-pandemic. The ultimate purpose of Small House Gallery during and since those times, was – is for artists and art aficionados to meet and connect in the online sphere, and combat the anxiety of isolation in uncertain times in quite a fun but powerful way. Even when subject matter being tackled was quite serious or otherwise harrowing, the aim was to make it more engaging, thought provoking and digestible by nature of this more innocent and playful context, without taking away any gravitas from the art’s intended message. 

^{You can read more about SHG’s origins in an interview in the LUVA Gallery ‘zine interview  >>> here <<<}

Seema Shah‘s SOMETHING BIG AND INVISIBLE has arrived from Vancouver, passed through Customs, and taken up residence in Small House Gallery One, from February throughout March 2024

and, in Small House Two, an EXTENDED solo exhibition by Susan Francis: PLASTIC NATURE – The Harmony of Disagreeing Things (end date TBC) 

Coming Soon:

All the way from Milan (and originally from Virginia), artist Mary Crenshaw delivers a tufted textile piece she made to cover the exterior structures of Small Houses One and Two for her solo show Couched, in May 2024