How successful can a gallery get? Enough to open another one yards away on Cambridge’s most interesting street, Trinity. Yes, the new Contemporary Art Gallery is the Temporary Art Gallery - where Whistles once was - but hats off to this 25 year long art institution as it cunningly capitalises on the roadworks along Trinity Street to take up the compensation of a Pop-Up only yards from their well know frontage. It is homage to the consistently unusual style of the CCA - and a mark of its popularity.

Sean Thornhill wall sculptures with ceramics

Ceramics by Katharina Klug -with Sean Thornhill’s ceramics

Ceramics by Katharina Klug ,wall sculpture Sean Thornhill

This latest two location show is sensational. The ex -Whistles shop is a divine location for a gallery, sadly only there for six weeks. It is frankly lost on a clothes shop which needs privacy for customers to try on - and has to promote outfits through mannequins. Suddenly this space has been liberated for Art. It is a thrilling location for the wonderful ceramic of Katharina Klug, ( immense jugs and fabulously crafted Japanese inspired structures of great wonder range all round the window sills) along with Barbara Gittings and Francis Lloyd Jones. Bronze sculptures by the talented Alice Andrea Ewing enhance the gallery and swing visitors into a heavenly space.

It has to be seen to be appreciated.

A shop turned gallery as beautifully as this - teaming with its older sister down the road - reminds us our City Centre can be much better, more uplifting, more cultural than we often find. When we view a gorgeous space like this, it is even harder to come to terms with yet another Harry Potter Wizard Emporium

This is our appeal to Colleges to consider their role in the look and feel and artistry of Cambridge City Centre before they allow yet more tourist -centred low value outlets. Let’s have more art ,more quality, more meaning when we step out into our community.