The beautiful drive up through the Moors puts you in a landscape that has remained unchanged for centuries.

Then you arrive at the integrated contemporary art gallery at the museum, and art of the modern day comes rushing out at you from the old-fashioned surroundings.

Andrew Dalton, curator of The Gallery, has been slowly building a programme of interesting and often challenging contemporary art at the gallery.

His efforts were rewarded last month when the Arts Council announced that it would be extending its funding for the Gallery for the next three years until the end of 2011.

This amounts to more than £43,000 and will secure an ambitious contemporary arts programme in the heart of the North York Moors.

The end of June will see a new show, the first to be funded by this new tranche of funding.

York-based potter Peter Humpherson will guest curate the show, simply called Ceramic. Opening on June 27 the show will feature the work of Humpherson alongside a selection of pots from York Museums Trust. These include work by some of the most influential names in contemporary ceramics such as David Lloyd-Jones, Jim Malone, Richard Batterham, Alex McErlain, Ray Finch Joanna Constantinidis and Mick Casson. This is the second show in a series, running from May to December, that celebrates the Fired Arts in North Yorkshire, and features a selection of the region's designer-makers who work in ceramic, metal and glass.

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