{{short description|English art gallery}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Use British English|date=February 2023}} {{Multiple issues| {{Notability|date=October 2018}} {{More citations needed|date=October 2018}}}} thumb|Entrance to the Otter Gallery at the University of Chichester, College Lane, Chichester, West Sussex, UK. Location: {{coord|50.844674|N|0.774429|W |format=dms |display=inline,title|region:GB_type:edu}} The '''Otter Gallery''' was an art gallery at the University of Chichester's College Lane campus, which hosted exhibitions, lectures and events including sculpture, paintings and photographs.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://artuk.org/visit/venues/university-of-chichester-otter-gallery-3697|title=University of Chichester, Otter Gallery|website=Artuk.org|accessdate=12 October 2018}}</ref> The Gallery was responsible for maintaining the University Art Collection which started in 1947. It holds one of the Founder Partner collections<ref>{{cite web |url=https://artuk.org/support/founder-partner-collections |title=Art UK {{!}} Supporters and Partners Partner collections {{!}} Founder Partner collections |website=artuk.org |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305084615/http://artuk.org/support/founder-partner-collections |archive-date=2016-03-05}}</ref> of Art UK and is represented on its website.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/visit/venues/university-of-chichester-otter-gallery-3697|title = University of Chichester, Otter Gallery | Art UK}}</ref> The Otter Gallery and its Bishop Otter Art Collection are also listed with the International Committee for Museums and Collections.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://university-museums-and-collections.net/chichester/otter-gallery-university-of-chichester|title = Otter Gallery, University of Chichester - UMAC Worldwide Database of University Museums and Collections}}</ref> Eleanor Hipwell was head of art at Bishop Otter College and acquired three paintings from an exhibition held at the Victoria and Albert Museum in order to display them at the university. When Miss K. E. Murray was appointed as a new principal, she along with Eleanor Hipwell's successor, Sheila McCririck, developed a collection of contemporary British art that would inform and inspire students.
The Collection is still held intact by The Bishop Otter Trust, and includes work by important 20th Century artists such as Patrick Heron, Stanley Spencer, Henry Moore, Paul Nash, Mary Fedden, Sandra Blow, Jill Bray, Ivon Hitchens, and John Hitchens.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://artuk.org/discover/artworks/search/venue:university-of-chichester-otter-gallery-3697|title = Art UK | Discover Artworks}}</ref>
The University of Chichester closed the Otter Gallery permanently in October 2018, despite public protests and attempts to save it.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/30052018-protest-against-closure-of-otter-gallery-in-chichester|title = Protest against closure of Otter Gallery at Chichester University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/call-to-keep-chichester-university-s-otter-gallery-as-closure-planned-1-8516117|title = Call to keep Chichester University's Otter Gallery as closure planned}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/campaigners-lament-closure-of-otter-gallery-at-chichester-university-1-8658915|title = Campaigners lament closure of Otter Gallery at Chichester University}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://artuk.org/discover/stories/an-update-and-a-lament-the-bishop-otter-collection|title=An update and a lament: The Bishop Otter Collection | Art UK }}</ref>
==Publications== ‘The Bishop Otter Art Collection - A Celebration’, edited by Gill Clarke, Sansom & Co., 2016, {{ISBN|978-1-911408-01-7}}
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