Jones Gallery Moving To Prince William Street In Saint John
SAINT JOHN — A popular uptown art gallery has outgrown its current space and is moving to a new home just a few blocks away.
Jones Gallery is moving from its current location in the restored 19th-century building at 1 Charlotte Street to 122 Prince William Street, the former location of Tuck Studio which has moved across the street.
“We just need more space just for expanding the business, really,” says owner Sarah Jones.
The Charlotte Street location is 2,000 square feet, while the Prince William Street Space is about 3,000 square feet.
“It’s substantially larger and there are more office space and more storage space,” says Jones.
The main reason for the move is to accommodate the new services Jone Gallery is offering. The Covid-19 pandemic gave Jones and her brother Caleb to focus on formalizing other services the gallery offers.
“The services have become a major part of the company. It’s not that we didn’t anticipate it, but we never would have had the time and necessity to focus on it because of Covid. It’s just grown and we need to hire people. It’s really because of all that that we realized we had to start looking for something else.”
Besides the gallery side of the business. Jones Gallery offers services for artists such as artwork documentation and career consultation. On the customer/client side, the gallery is offering things like house calls and collection management. They are now offering fine art appraising, which is led by Caleb.
“Caleb’s appraisal business is going really well and people are bringing things in for him o look at. He needs a separate office area to do that,” says Jones. “We love Charlotte Street. We loved that gallery space and were able to make that everything we wanted, but there’s basically no office there really.”
Jones says they’re also looking forward to being on one of uptown Saint John’s most happening streets. At their new location, they’ll have neighbours such as The Art Warehouse, along with many other boutiques, restaurants and galleries.
“We’re really looking forward to being next to a coffee shop, just to be part of a bustling kind of street. We were really hoping for that up there and it just hasn’t materialized,” says Jones.
“That’s not our main reason for moving at all, but that was something that was really appealing to us about Prince William Street. It’s already all there and there’s such a diversity of businesses. We’re looking forward to being in the thick of things.”
Jones Gallery will be moving to the new location on September 1. After the renovations, they plan to be open to the public by October 1 at the latest.