Save the art gallery on High Street in Highgate N6

Aim

We are useful part of local community and replace non-existent private art centre open to general public during regular hours 7 days a week,

Help Keep Avivson Gallery Open in Highgate

Since 2018, Avivson Gallery has been more than simply a place in which art is bought and sold. It has become an open and welcoming cultural space where local residents, visitors, established artists and people taking their first creative steps can meet, discover new work and feel part of something worthwhile.

We are open to the public seven days a week. Anyone can walk through our door, enjoy the exhibitions and talk to us about the art, without feeling any obligation to buy. At a time when many galleries must concentrate almost entirely on established and commercially successful names, we remain committed to giving emerging and lesser known artists a genuine opportunity to be seen.

My wife, Kate, and I run Avivson together. We organise regular exhibitions featuring artists whose work we already admire, alongside new discoveries whom we believe deserve a wider audience. Several times each year, we also make the gallery available at an affordable cost to artists who wish to present their own exhibitions.

For artists with limited experience of exhibiting, we often provide far more than a room. We help them select and prepare their work, plan the exhibition, arrange the display, produce a catalogue, write a professional biography and present themselves confidently to the public. For some, this is their first opportunity to hold a proper exhibition and to begin turning private creativity into a public career.

The response from Highgate and the wider community has been extraordinary. We welcome people of every age and background, including many who might never ordinarily think of entering an art gallery. That openness is central to everything we do.

However, maintaining an independent gallery has become increasingly difficult. Rising operating costs, business rates and repayments on borrowing taken on during the pandemic have placed Avivson under considerable financial pressure.

We now need to raise £20,000 to meet these immediate commitments and give the gallery the stability it needs to continue.

All the income earned by the gallery is reinvested in its running costs and exhibitions. Kate and I take no salaries from it, and we both undertake other work to support ourselves. We continue because we believe passionately that independent cultural spaces matter, and that artists need places where they can be encouraged, supported and discovered.

Your contribution will help preserve a welcoming gallery that is open to everyone seven days a week, regular exhibitions by established and emerging artists, affordable opportunities for artists to present their own work, practical guidance for people exhibiting for the first time, and an independent cultural space at the heart of Highgate.

As a special expression of our gratitude, everyone who contributes £100 or more will receive a personal lifetime discount of 10 per cent on every artwork they purchase from Avivson Gallery in the future. This benefit will be personal to the contributor and cannot be transferred.

Every contribution, whatever its size, will help. If you are unable to contribute, sharing this appeal would also make an enormous difference.

With your support, we can keep Avivson open, continue championing artists and remain a creative and welcoming part of the Highgate community for years to come.

Thank you for helping us protect something special.

Funding method

Keep what you raise – this project will receive all pledges made by 28th November 2026 at 12:00pm