Mission Statement
Ort Gallery is a community-led visual arts and poetry organisation practicing equity in the minutiae of our daily work. We create spaces for artists and communities to slow down, unlearn, and rebuild ways of working grounded in care, access and collective wellbeing.
We centre those most excluded from the arts - working-class, disabled, queer and global majority - and celebrate the languages, faiths and heritages that shape our communities. From Hayati Nights, our halal poetry night and exhibitions by Black and Brown artists to our Crip Resistance programme, we honour the stories, rhythms and identities that are too often left unheard.
Rooted in Warmth and Crip Time, we place people before productivity, process before perfection and collaboration before hierarchy. We are developing Ort into a community-led organisation that is ethical by design, modelling equitable systems through small, intentional acts that accumulate into meaningful change.
Through exhibitions, residencies and public programmes, we nurture artists who challenge norms and reimagine what sustainability, leadership and creativity can look like when shaped by care, accountability and interdependence.
The current team are the custodians of Ort Gallery. We acknowledge the wisdom and work of those who came before us, and we pave the way for those who will follow - with integrity.
Warmth
Equitable Working Methods in the Arts
We use Warmth as a starting point for all our work. Read more about this here
Ort Gallery is a Disability Confident Employer.
Policies
Read and download our policies here
In 2025 we decided to put our Warmth work behind a paywall as we felt many larger organisations are not willing to pay for our work. We offer free access to freelancers and grassroots organisations. We also provide the following policies freely here as they are important to have access to easily:
annual reports
Read our 2017 Annual Report here
Read our 2018 Annual Report here
Read our 2019 Annual Report here and our 2019 Impact Report here
Read our 2020 Audience Data Report here
Read our 2021 & 2022 Impact Report here
Read our 2023 Public Statement here
Read our 2024 Annual Report here
Proposals
Artists are welcome to submit proposals for future projects. For more information please e-mail: info@ortgallery.co.uk with a short introduction.
