Putnam Farms Gallery is an exhibition space and online picture archive for contemporary rural art and farmland photography.
Four seasonal shows run each year, pairing large-format photographs of fence lines, silos and grazing camps with paintings and linocuts by artists working close to the land. Every catalogue entry records the maker, the medium, the year and where the work was made, so you can follow a body of work rather than scroll past a wall of pictures. The online gallery mirrors the physical hang room by room, with a zoom view that shows paper grain and brush marks.
Join a Saturday walk-through, or ask about a studio visit with a resident artist. Programmes and visits
Four seasonal shows run each year, and there is more than one way to meet them. Pick the one that fits how you like to look.
A small group moves through the current hang with the gallery team, room by room. Best if you want to stand in front of a few plates and hear how they were made. The route follows the same order as the online gallery, so you can return to a work afterwards.
Choose this if you are visiting the gallery in person and prefer a set time.
Arranged separately from the walk-through and held at the artist's own workspace. Suited to anyone following a body of work closely, or wanting to talk through process, materials and the drawings behind a finished piece.
Choose this if you would rather have a longer, one-to-one conversation.
A printed record of each show, listing the maker, the medium, the year and a short note on where the work was made. Four catalogues a year. Useful if you want to read the entries before deciding whether to travel to the gallery.
Choose this if you are browsing from elsewhere and want the full list of works.
Selected editions are offered as print-on-demand, and the catalogue states which works are available that way and which are held only in the physical hang. Ask about a specific plate if you want to know how it is printed and on what paper.
Choose this if you already have a work in mind from the current show.
None of these replace each other. The walk-through and the studio visit are for looking at work in person; the catalogue and the print enquiry are for following it from a distance. Requests are handled through the gallery contact page, where you can name the option you want.
The current show runs through the season, and the online gallery follows it room by room. If you would rather look slowly, the Saturday walk-through keeps the group small, and a studio visit can be arranged with one of the resident artists.
Prefer to ask first? Write to contact@putnamfarms.com or call +27 62 180 3972.
Nothing here is left to guesswork. Each show follows the same sequence, each work is recorded the same way, and the notes you read online match the captions on the wall.
Four seasonal shows run each year, and each one is built the same way: works are selected, the hang is set room by room, and the catalogue is written before the doors open. The order of the rooms stays the same online as it is in the building, so a work you saw in person sits in the same place when you return to it on screen.
Every entry carries the maker's name, the medium, the year and a short note on where the work was made. The same four details appear in the catalogue, on the wall caption and in the online listing, so there is no second version to cross-check.
Titles, dates and medium descriptions are read against the artist's own notes before anything goes up. Where a work is part of a print run, the catalogue states whether it is held in the physical hang only or also offered as a print-on-demand edition.
Requests for a walk-through, a studio visit or the seasonal catalogue are answered by the gallery team, and each reply states what is available and what is not. If a work has already left the hang, you are told so rather than left waiting.
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