7 August - 26 September 2021

James Brown was an extraordinary man with interests in business, politics, farming and growing roses. He made his fortune in the drapery business and bought the Knockbrex estate, overlooking Wigtown Bay. Here he created agricultural and other buildings in Gothic Revival style, carried out an archaeological investigation, built up a herd of prize cattle and developed the gardens and leisure opportunities of Knockbrex House. This exhibition gives a flavour of the man, his work, and his family.

14 June - 30 July 2021

Nearly all fields have a name, and these names act as a memorial, telling the story of a place and can connect you with the history of your area. The names used today are the result of a largely oral tradition where the original name may have evolved over many years and can be hard to decipher.

29 May - 6 June

Spring Fling Open Studios is an open studio event based here in Dumfries & Galloway. Every Spring since 2003, 70-100 artists, makers and designers across the region open their studios for visitors.  In light of the ongoing pandemic, this year’s programme has a mix of online and physical socially distanced approaches. No studios will be physically open this year, but the Virtual Studios, piloted in 2020 in response to the pandemic, will be back.   

1-30 September 2018

on loan from Logan Garden (Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh at Logan)

Logan Botanic Garden owes much of its lush, semi-tropical character to Kenneth McDouall (1870-1945), in partnership with his brother Douglas (1872-1942), who inherited the Logan estate from their father in 1896.

Exhibition reveals the mystery of place-names

19 March - 30 April 2018

This coastal place-name exhibition celebrates the beauty of the Dumfries and Galloway shoreline and the language used to describe it.

The exhibition features images depicting the coastline and the history and stories behind the origins of place-names which often use words that have disappeared from our everyday language.

a photographic record of life in and around the town over the last 40 years by

Mike Bannister

11 September - 31 October 2017

1 July -3 September 2017

Michael Wickenden, the founder of Cally Gardens outside Gatehouse and who died last year, was a modern day explorer who travelled the world's remote places in search of new varieties of plants.  At Cally, in the former walled garden of Cally House, he created a specilalist nursery as well as a beautiful garden.

3 - 25 June 2017

Bookshop Gallery

Caroline is an Edinburgh based photographer originally from a farm near Stranraer. Caroline works with both digital and analogue photography, creating images of a documentary style, telling stories through photography.

The exhibition comprises photographs created in the past year as well as prints from her travels around America. When creating her images, she researches the history and facts about the location to channel an essence of it into her imagery.