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Filming and photography

Venue hire

Filming and photography

Watts Gallery - Artists' Village is a unique arts and crafts location for commercial filming and photoshoots.

Film locations

We have space to accommodate crews and our helpful and knowledgeable staff are on hand to help with your requirements.

We can offer various locations including the Grade II listed art gallery, Victorian Arts & Crafts house once home to artists' G F and Mary Watts, Victorian artist's studio, Grade I listed Arts and Crafts chapel with exquisite interiors, cemetery, contemporary gallery space, library and archive, woodlands and gardens, sculpture, fields, and contemporary art studio spaces.

Discover the different locations available

  • Historic gallery features oil paintings in gold frames and sculptures
  • A green room with a dining table, chairs and period furniture
  • The outside of the Watts Gallery building on a sunny day
  • A white gallery with framed pictures and a table with sculptures
  • A terracotta celtic-style chapel with decorated tiles
  • Wooden rounded amphitheatre in woodlands with stairs
  • A blurred visitor in the gallery, there are white and red walls and paintings on easels
  • a green and red painted room lined with bookshelves
  • Large sculpture of a man riding a horse in gallery
  • The inside of the chapel with intricate and colourful panels
  • Blue sky with historic panelled house
  • Woodlands in the summer

Filming fees

Location fees may vary depending on your specific requirements. Any income we generate from filming, photo shoots, TV drama and documentaries goes towards the care and upkeep of the collection, buildings and estate.

Contact the team

Get in touch with our Head of Trading to discuss your filming and commercial photography requirements and to organise a recce.

Email: jo.wilks@wattsgallery.org.uk