Park Square Gallery

The gallery was established in 1964 by Sara Gilchrist as Queen Square Gallery, it was named after its location in central Leeds. Her business flourished and she relocated to nearby Park Square renaming her gallery accordingly. She retired in 1978 though the gallery continued for a few more years under different ownership. The artists mainly contemporary in the third quarter of the 20th century included Eric Atkinson, Albert Irvin, Richard James, Louis James, Sonia Lawson, Harry Thubron and Gregory Fellowship winners Kenneth Armitage, Trevor Bell, Reg Butler, Hubert Dalwood, AIan Davie, Terry Frost and Austin Wright. Ahead of her time, she even exhibited groups of contemporary Russian artists twenty-five years before it became fashionable to do so.

In 1981 Sara Gilchrist was awarded an honorary degree by the University of Leeds and in the summer of 1984 through the timely intervention of Stephen Chaplin of the University's Department of Fine Art, she most kindly agreed to donate her precious archive of her galleries up to the date of her retirement to the Brotherton Library, Leeds University.