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Workplace Gallery is a commercial gallery run by artists and represents a portfolio of emerging and established artists through the gallery programme, curatorial projects and art fairs.
On Monday 16 June 2008, Portable Radio began with three dialogue sessions at Workplace Gallery in Gateshead. Sarah and Russell spoke with a number of local curators, artists, commissioners, professional development staff and members of the public over the day; this audio file is edited from the first session.
Present were Julia Bell, Curator of Business Network Collection; Paul Moss, Workplace Gallery; Anna Pepperall, Public Art Curator, Development & Enterprise, Gateshead Council; Neil Smith, senior policies and equality officer at Gateshead council and author of a forthcoming report on the regeneration impact of the Angel of the North on Gateshead; Karen Davies, artist CPD programmer at Baltic; Ben Jeans Houghton, artist; and Christine Cattanach, Trinity Square Centre Manager.
The other sessions were attended by Adam Lopardo, Director of Community Foundation; Robert Blackson, curator at Baltic; Miles Thurlow, Workplace Gallery; and artists Sarah Bayliss, Corinne Mynatt, Angus Braithwaite, Tanya Axford, Ginny Reed, Peter J. Evans, Richard Rigg, Francis Gomila, Cecilia Stenbom, Catherine Bertola, Laura Lancaster, Cath Campbell, Rachel Lancaster, Wolfgang Weileder, Jo Coupe, Eric Bainbridge, Ant Macari, Paul Merrick.
More images of the session in Gateshead are here - use the Next and Previous control to browse the images.
During each Portable Radio session we make a careful note of all of the organisations people refer to. Below are a list of links to the projects, organisations and information people mention in this dialogue.
Workplace Gallery
Hosts of Portable Radio in Gateshead. Workplace Gallery is an artist-led
commercial gallery run by Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow. Mention was also
made of the work of Marcus
Coates.
Baltic
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art is Newcastle-Gateshead’s regional
art kunsthalle. With no permanent collection of its own, Baltic presents
an international, regional and local programme of visual arts. As part
of its inaugural exhibition, Baltic presented Chris
Burden’s Bridges built from Meccano.
Sports Day
Pre-Angel public artwork sited outside the Northern Rock branch on West Street,
near the new Workplace Gallery venue, also pictured in the photographs above. Mike
Winstone, 1986.
Angel of the North
Large public art commission by Antony Gormley credited
with initiating one of the largest and most successful regional regeneration
programmes in the UK. Gormley also created Field for the British Isles in
1993.
Waygood Gallery and Studios
Contemporary art gallery and artists studios currently undergoing reconstruction
works.
Middlesbrough Institute of Contemporary Art (MIMA)
Contemporary art gallery and museum of city collection, opened in 2007.
Vane Gallery
Commercial contemporary art gallery founded in 1997.
Lisson Gallery
Successful contemporary art gallery representing Anthony Gormley, creator of
the Angel of the North.
Gateshead Millennium Bridge
Pedestrian bridge opened as part of Gateshead’s millennium celebrations
linking Baltic in Gateshead to the Newcastle side of the Tyne.
National Garden Festivals
Held in five cities in the 1980s and 1990s, the National Garden Festivals were
part of a regeneration project to reclaim tracts of land from the UK’s
post-industrial history. Garden Festivals were held in Gateshead and
Glasgow.
Glasgow
City of Culture / UK City of Architecture and Design
The ongoing European Cities of Culture project is a way for the EU to promote
cultural activity in specified European cities in one selected year. The
Glasgow City of Culture award, in 1990, was credited for both following up
the initial success of the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1998 and kick-starting
the regeneration of the later 1990s, including the 1999 UK
City of Architecture and Design. The
Glasgow City Council website gives a good
overview of this important part of Glasgow’s recent past.
Charles Rennie Macintosh
Scottish architect, artist and designer active at the beginning of the twentieth
century. Macintosh continues to have a huge impact on contemporary Scottish
design today. Macintosh also designed The
Glasgow School of Art.
Scottish Arts Council
Scotland’s public funders for the arts.
Transmission Gallery
Artist-led gallery space in Glasgow, founded in 1983 by graduates from The
Glasgow School of Art.
NewcastleGateshead Initiative
Collaborative project by Newcastle Council and Gateshead
Council to attract tourism
and business to the area.
Trinity Centre multi-storey car park
Excellent example of Brutalist architecture, designed by Owen Luder, this concrete
car park above the Trinity Shopping Centre is slated for demolition since the
purchase of the land by Spenhill, the commercial property arm of Tesco. Best
known as providing the backdrop for the movie Get Carter.
Sage Centre
Live music venue hosting the Northern Sinfonia, sited next to Baltic.
Percent for Art
Some local councils in the UK maintain a percent for art scheme, an initiative
to ensure a percentage of new building costs are reserved for art objects,
generally public art. There is no national framework or necessity to
maintain such a scheme.
The Biscuit Factory
Mostly local artist-made objects for sale in this non-exhibition led gallery.
Mushroom Works
Artist led gallery and studio space in a converted warehouse space in Newcastle.
Designed and Made
Founded in 2002, Designed and Made is an artist-led not-for-profit organisation
promoting the work of its membership. It organises touring exhibitions
and gallery-based shows.
Art Fair Newcastle Gateshead
Art fair held annually in the Sage Centre, Gateshead, and organised by Andy
Balman who set up the Biscuit Factory.
Globe Gallery
Independent contemporary art space in Newcastle.
Laing Gallery
City gallery housing impressive Victorian collection and changing contemporary
art exhibitions, noted for its extensive and successful education programme.
Discovery Museum
Museum of local history for the Newcastle and Gateshead area.