Our Shops

Oldham Gallery Shop

Are you looking for a special gift? Or perhaps you deserve a treat!

Our gallery shop sells souvenirs and gifts to suit all ages and pockets including a wide range of crafts and jewellery, an excellent range of cards and postcards and crystal engraved with the Oldham coat of arms.

We also stock a range of gifts from local artists, crafters and makers. The shop also sells catalogues for past and current exhibitions, books about the Gallery’s collections and local history publications – some of which can be ordered online.

Online art shop

There are over 300 of our oil paintings available as reproduction prints through the Art UK website.

Books for Sale by mail order

How to order

For postage within the UK – please send a cheque payable to Oldham MBC, for the amount of the book plus the postage and packing cost, to:

Gallery Shop,
Gallery Oldham,
Greaves Street,
Oldham OL1 1AL

Please remember to state which books you would like to order, your address and a contact telephone number.

If you are ordering more than one book, please include the postage and packing costs for each book.

If you are outside the UK, please contact us by email at gallery.reception@oldham.gov.uk or by phone on +44 161 770 4742


Creative Tension: British Art 1900 – 1950
£5.00 (+ £4 p&p)
Creative Tension is a major exhibition bringing together over 130 paintings, sculptures and ceramics by the leading artists working in Britain during the first half of the 20th century.

Victorian Oldham in Pictures
£3.99 (+ £2.50 p&p) Victorian Oldham in Pictures includes fascinating photographs of Oldham from the collections of Gallery Oldham, and Oldham Local Studies and Archives.

At the edge
£9.99 (+ £4.00 p&p)
This catalogue charts the development of collections in four North West Galleries and features 64 works by renowned British artists.

Spindleopolis by Alan Fowler and Terry Wyke
£3.95 (+ £2.50 p&p)
This survey of life in Oldham in 1913 takes inspiration from the cartoons of Sam Fitton that originally appeared in The Cotton Factory Times.

ArtSouthAsia: A Shisha initiated programme

£3.45 (+ £2.50 p&p)
This catalogue was published for ArtSouthAsia, the first international programme of visual culture from Bangladesh, India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Ruth Moilliet Meadowlands

£3.50 (+ £2.50 p&p)
Published by Gallery Oldham in 2006 this catalogue features images and text by Ruth Moilliet, who has an international reputation as a sculptor, producing large scale metal flowers and seed heads made principally of steel.

Her work can still be found at Gallery Oldham in the café gardens.

Roger Hampson A Lost Landscape

£4.99 (+ £2.50 p&p)
This in depth catalogue features the images of Roger Hampson, an important painter and printmaker of the post-Second world war era.
A lost landscape explores Hampson’s memories of growing up in Tyldesley.

With an array of lino prints, oil paintings, aqua tints and many more techniques this catalogue gives an in depth in site in to him and his work.

Millscapes art of the Industrial Landscape
£5.99 (+ £3.00 p&p)
Looking at the transformation of the North West over the last 200 years and celebrating some of the impressive art that our industrial landscape has inspired. A very visible reminders of an industry that once spearheaded the Industrial Revolution.

Urban Traces Ceramics and the City
£1.50 (+ £2.50 p&p)
Explores the significance of architecture and the city in studio ceramics.

Showcasing the work of over 15 ceramicists this catalogue features large full colour images of each artists work.

Fired Up: Ceramics and Meaning
£2.50 (+ £1.50 p&p)
Featuring the work of five individual artists Stephen Dixon, Paul Scott, Claudia Clare, Peter Lewis and Emma Summers.

All of which have chosen clay as their primary means of expression to challenge, question and convey meanings beyond those commonly associated with the material. They set out political and issue-based subject matter and invite the viewer to reflect on these narratives.