Stella Dore Gallery was launched in 2007 in the Truman Brewery in Brick Lane by Steph Warren, former office manager of Pictures on Walls - the subversive screen print studio that produced exhibitions and prints under the instruction of Banksy and helped launch the careers of some of the biggest artists of today such as Space Invader, David Shrigley & Jamie Hewlett.  Steph discusses this turbulent time in a podcast for Radio 4/BBC Sounds called “The Banksy Story”.   After the first Stella Dore was swallowed up by the credit crunch (or as it later became known, the Global Financial Crisis), Steph returned to her home town of Hastings, working for the typography artist Ben Eine, painting shop shutters and large scale murals and assisting him on  gallery exhibitions in United States and Europe.  

Stella Dore Gallery relaunched in St Leonards on Sea in 2018 and has produced many exhibitions, working with an eclectic array of street and contemporary artists such as Sara Pope, Dotmasters, Pablo Allison, Shuby, Dave Buonaguidi and others.

Alongside the exhibitions, Stella Dore produces mural commissions and street interventions and is always up for new adventures in art.

The gallery also serves coffee (caffeinated and adaptogenic) and occasionally has cake.  It’s a guaranteed art solace!

We are open for walk ins on Saturdays, 11am-5pm or get in touch to arrange a weekday appointment.