Looking for a photoshoot or film location with a difference?
A unique venue to host your own celebration, organisation or business event?
Or an inspiring setting to host your classes, workshops or daytime retreat?
HISTORICAL, NATURAL, INSPIRING & ORIGINAL
Originally part of the Bowood Estate and set within the rolling hills of Wiltshire, Talos Art Gallery and grounds is the ideal venue to hire for Private Events, Classes or Workshops, Photoshoots and Filming.
Home to many different sized natural brick gallery rooms and surrounded by stunning outside space full of mature planting, Talos also offers a rare opportunity to include some of the artwork and sculptures as part of your backdrop — one-of-a-kind talking points unique to this venue.
The venue also includes on site utilities, wifi, car parking and toilet facilities.
WELCOME TO TALOS
Venue for private hire
Available to hire all year round our carefully restored gallery buildings are surrounded by mature botanical sculpture gardens and make the ideal venue for your event or as a photoshoot or filming location. Set amongst the rolling hills of the Wiltshire countryside and originally the diary farm for Bowood House, here at Talos Art Gallery we are able to offer something original and special for private hire. With buildings dating back 300 years, now lovingly restored, this is where modern art meets authentic restoration meets english country side to create a unique and contemporary pastoral space.
Around the dates of our Talos Summer Exhibition there may also be the opportunity to include a Private Tour as part of your package, making your event all the more unique.
THE BUILDINGS
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Natural light comes in through gallery windows, and the floor to ceiling doors can be opened out into the garden areas.
Originally part of the Bowood House Estate, the restoration of the old diary barns involved sensitive painstaking removal of layers of concrete, brick and dung to reveal the buildings original features. Having stripped back to reveal cobbled floors, original elm trusses and antique joinery many of these original features have been retained. Additional struts, doors and windows were then carved in situ from locally sourced materials.
The results are a stunning natural space that acts as both a backdrop and flowing layout.
THE GARDENS
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Our garden has been laid out and planted to combine nature and art as a whole experience, with each showing off the other to its best effect. Nature has, of course, taken this as a challenge and each year seems intent upon upstaging the artwork that we place in it, but that’s a conflict we are happy to encourage.
This makes for a unique backdrop and calming space for outdoor entertaining, breakout space, yoga classes, filming, photoshoots and so much more.
The entrance garden to the gallery is a open lawn providing the option to pitch a marquee or drive in portable catering.
AND THE ART
Each summer we open the doors of Talos Art Gallery to exhibits a wide range of contemporary sculptures and paintings from renown artists from around the world. Many of these pieces stay with us throughout the year and can be in situ for your venue hire. During our Talos Summer Exhibition there is the opportunity to include a Private Tour as part of your package, making your event all the more unique.
Please note that the artwork does change every year as we invite new artists in to exhibit. We can not guarantee that the artwork in the images on this website or that you see on a pre visit will be the same as the artwork at an event.
Private Hire
EVENTS & OCCASIONS
Talos Gallery & Gardens can be hired on an exclusive basis for private and corporate occasions.
Around the time of our Talos Summer Exhibition there is the opportunity to include a Private Tour as part of your package, making your event all the more unique. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
WORKSHOPS & CLASSES
Talos Gallery & Gardens can be hired on a regular basis or as one off to run classes and workshops. Let your students be inspired, calmed and nurtured by this amazing one-of-a-kind setting. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
PHOTOGRAPHY & FILMING
Talos Gallery & Garden is available for hire to film crews and professional photographers. Please get in touch to discuss your requirements.
GET IN TOUCH
To arrange a view or find out more about hiring Talos contact
Richard on 01249 599 069
Lovingly restored by owner Richard Atkinson-Willes
“Beneath several layers of concrete, I suddenly found ancient, cobbled floors and post holes for centuries old cow byres.
To give you an idea of the scale of this ‘spring clean’, we removed nearly a metre of rubble from the old cart shed to return the floor to its original level”.
