New Brewery Arts

Who we are

New Brewery Arts connects people with the hand-made, promotes the joy and fulfilment of making and celebrates the role of craft and creativity in all our lives.

Formed by and for the local community in 1978 as Cirencester Workshops, Brewery Arts was established in 1984. Today we are a vibrant craft organisation where creativity takes place every day. Our studios are spaces for professional craftspeople – they hum to the sounds of glass furnaces and jewellers’ hammers. Our teaching studios are vibrant, full of life, chatter, community, learning and making with others. Today ceramics, bookbinding, sketching, and stained-glass classes fill the building. Our gallery is a space to reflect on social issues and ideas played out in the hands of exceptional makers from the UK and around the world. This charitable work is supported by a commercial services arm (retail, café and accommodation), providing a welcoming space for our communities to spend time with us and with the handmade.