Art galleries in Reading
Reading, Berkshire has 23 art galleries on the map. That's 23 galleries mapped around Reading. The exhibition schedule matters more than the count: a small gallery with a great current show beats a big one between exhibitions. Many are free to enter, so the only cost of a gallery afternoon is your time.
This guide covers every art gallery we could verify in and around Reading (within about 40 km), built from OpenStreetMap's community-maintained data. Names you'll run into include Guildford House Gallery and Castle Fine Art, plus Whitewall. If a gallery's missing from Reading's list, it probably just hasn't been mapped yet.
The Reading gallery lineup
23 mapped within about 40 km:
Guildford House Gallery
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Guildford House Gallery — Art gallery, found on 155 High Street in Guildford. Also worth knowing about Guildford House Gallery: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-16:30; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
155 High Street, Guildford, GU1 3AJ
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-16:30
Phone: +44 1483 444751
Castle Fine Art
Art gallery
Castle Fine Art — Art gallery, found on High Street in Guildford. Also worth knowing about Castle Fine Art: it has a website with more detail.
High Street, Guildford
Whitewall
Art gallery
Whitewall — Art gallery, found on High Street in Guildford.
High Street, Guildford
The Picture Gallery
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The Picture Gallery is Art gallery.
Watts Studios (Limnerslease)
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Watts Studios (Limnerslease) is Art gallery on Down Lane.
Down Lane, GU3 1DJ
Museum of Farnham Garden Gallery
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Museum of Farnham Garden Gallery is Art gallery on West Street, Farnham.
West Street, Farnham
Red Telephone Box
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Red Telephone Box — Art gallery.
Kraftinwood Gallery
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Kraftinwood Gallery — Art gallery, found on Grafton Street in High Wycombe. Also worth knowing about Kraftinwood Gallery: it has a website with more detail.
Grafton Street, High Wycombe, HP12 3AJ
Openhand
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Openhand is Art gallery. Openhand also notes on the map: it has a website with more detail.
Pembroke Art
Art galleryRun by Pembroke College JCR Art Collection Fund
Run by Pembroke College JCR Art Collection Fund, Pembroke Art is Art gallery, found on 5 Brewer Street in Oxford. Also worth knowing about Pembroke Art: the map lists its hours as unknown; it has a website with more detail.
5 Brewer Street, Oxford, OX1 1QN
Hours: unknown
Aquarius
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Aquarius is Art gallery.
Clarendon Fine Art
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Clarendon Fine Art — Art gallery.
Kilnside Farm Art Gallery
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Kilnside Farm Art Gallery is Art gallery.
Clarenden Fine Art
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Clarenden Fine Art is Art gallery on 14-16 High Street, Weybridge. Clarenden Fine Art also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Mo-Su 09:30-17:30; it has a website with more detail.
14-16 High Street, Weybridge, KT13 8AB
Hours: Mo-Su 09:30-17:30
The Glass Pencil Art Gallery
Art galleryRun by West London Society of Art
The Glass Pencil Art Gallery is Art gallery run by West London Society of Art.
Uxbridge, UB11 1AA
Surrey Art Gallery
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Surrey Art Gallery — Art gallery, found on 11 Old Woking Road in West Byfleet.
11 Old Woking Road, West Byfleet, KT14 6LW
Red Cube Gallery
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Red Cube Gallery — Art gallery.
The Barn
Art galleryRun by St John's College;University of Oxford
The Barn is Art gallery run by St John's College;University of Oxford on 22 St Giles', Oxford. The Barn also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as unknown.
22 St Giles', Oxford, OX1 3JP
Hours: unknown
The Lightbox
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The Lightbox is Art gallery on Chobham Road, Woking. The Lightbox also notes on the map: the map lists its hours as Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00; PH off; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
Chobham Road, Woking, GU21 4AA
Hours: Tu-Sa 10:00-17:00; Su 11:00-16:00; PH off
Phone: +44 1483 737800
McAllister Thomas
Art gallery
McAllister Thomas is Art gallery.
Cow Byre Gallery
Art galleryRun by Compass Theatre
Run by Compass Theatre, Cow Byre Gallery is Art gallery, found on Bury Street in Ruislip.
Bury Street, Ruislip, HA4 7SU
Lingwood Samuel
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Lingwood Samuel — Art gallery on 12 Church Street. Also worth knowing about Lingwood Samuel: the map lists its hours as We-Sa 10:00-17:00; a phone number is listed — worth a call before a special trip; it has a website with more detail.
12 Church Street, GU7 1EH
Hours: We-Sa 10:00-17:00
Phone: +44 1483 428410
The Base
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The Base — Art gallery. Also worth knowing about The Base: it has a website with more detail.
What the map tells us about art galleries in Reading
6 of the 23 list their opening hours on the map, which is genuinely useful — galleries keep proper public hours, so plan around the listed times.
9 have websites listed. That's where the current exhibition is announced — the one thing worth checking before you visit.
There's a cluster: 2 of them sit on High Street, so you can string those into one walk and drive between the rest.
9 galleries list websites — that's where the current exhibition is announced, and it's the one thing worth checking before you visit.
The Reading gallery walk
The efficient Reading gallery walk strings these together: Guildford House Gallery on 155 High Street, Castle Fine Art on High Street, Whitewall on High Street, The Picture Gallery, Watts Studios (Limnerslease) on Down Lane, Museum of Farnham Garden Gallery on West Street, Red Telephone Box, and Kraftinwood Gallery on Grafton Street — 23 stops, one logical order. 15 more are listed below.
Gallery tips for Reading
Gallery-going in Reading? A few habits help:
- Go to opening nights at Guildford House Gallery. Free entry, the artists in the room, and a crowd that wants to talk about the work. The best gallery experience there is.
- Small galleries take risks at Castle Fine Art. Artist-run spaces show the work the big institutions won't. Some of it's baffling; some of it's the future.
- Bring a curious friend. Art is better with someone to argue with about it. The disagreement is the point.
- Note the curator's name. Good curators have taste you can follow. If you loved the show, look up what else they've put together.
Good to know
We searched about 40 km around Reading — that covers the town itself plus the surrounding communities you'd reasonably drive to. Listings come from OpenStreetMap, mapped by local volunteers, so a brand-new art gallery in Reading can take a while to appear. The 23 above are only as current as the community map. A art gallery that's shut, or a new one nobody's added yet, gets fixed with a single OpenStreetMap edit.
We don't review exhibitions — shows change too fast. What we list is the where: real galleries, verified by real mappers.
If you run one of the 23 listed here and something's wrong — a closure, a move, new hours — the fix is the same: update the shop on OpenStreetMap and the correction flows through to this page on the next daily refresh.
Art gallery listings for Reading: 23 mapped from OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL). Photos from Wikimedia Commons contributors; individual photo credits appear in captions. Listing data was last refreshed automatically — verify hours before visiting.