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System Gallery

about:

Artist-led volunteer-ran independent art gallery on the second floor of Bar Loco in the heart of Newcastle Upon Tyne. Proud to support early-career and emerging artists in the Northeast by offering exhibition space.

how is/was it run/structured ?:

group

what is/was it's legal status ?:

charity

how is/was it funded ?:

other

address:

System Gallery

22-24 Leazes Park Road

NE1 4PG Newcastle Upon Tyne 54° 58' 32.0736" N, 1° 37' 5.0052" W

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GB

websites:

System Art Gallery

total size in sqm/sqft:

≤ 100 sq.m (1076 sq.ft)

usage:

work only

previous usage of the site:

number of exhibition/project spaces:

2

established:

2012

last known status of the project:

ongoing (this site)

last known status of the site:

occupied

sister project(s):

Invisible

about:

Through its partnership with The People’s Kitchen, the System Gallery will hand-out disposable cameras to people living in Newcastle without homes. Throughout 2017, the participants of the project are encouraged to use the cameras to document their lives and capture everyday moments. A selection of these photographs will then be developed, printed and framed to form an exhibition to be held at the System Gallery in late 2017, this exhibition will then travel throughout several venues in Newcastle.

The aim of INVISIBLE is to help people affected by homelessness to reconnect with the wider society through photography. INVISIBLE seeks to make their lives visible, only shown from their own point of view.

how is/was it run/structured ?:

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what is/was it's legal status ?:

charity

how is/was it funded ?:

address:

System Gallery

Leazes Park Terrace

NE1 4PG Newcastle Upon Tyne 54° 58' 32.0736" N, 1° 37' 5.0052" W

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GB

websites:

Invisible

total size in sqm/sqft:

≤ 100 sq.m (1076 sq.ft)

usage:

work only

previous usage of the site:

number of exhibition/project spaces:

2

established:

2017

last known status of the project:

ongoing (this site)

last known status of the site:

occupied

Photo courtesy of Richard from the Invisible project

Apartment

about:

Apartment was a site specific artist led exhibition and project space in a one bed council flat in a sixties tower block, Lamport Court, central Manchester. Apartment was run by artists Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet from 2003- 2009. Artists were invited to exhibit their work alongside the everyday objects in the flat. Paul the then resident continued to live alongside the exhibitions as they occurred. After six years Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet closed Apartment to pursue their own careers as artists. The final and closing exhibition was a solo show by Giorgio Sadotti.

how is/was it run/structured ?:

individual

what is/was it's legal status ?:

other

how is/was it funded ?:

other

history of the site:

Apartment was located in a white one bedroom flat in Lamport Court a sixties residential council tower block in central Manchester. Lamport Court is sometimes referred to as "Rock n' Roll Towers" due to the high proportion of artists and musicians living there. Lamport Court was also home to the poetry magazine "Lamport Court" and the musician Lonelady who played a fund raising acoustic gig at Apartment.

management/organisers/directors/board/committee:

hilary Jack

Paul Harfleet

artists/curators in residence:

details of artists in residence; Maeve Rendell, Cherry Tenneson, Zac Ingham and Cath Corlette can be found on our site

exhibited artists:

details of exhibited artists can be found on our blog

exhibitions, events, workshops:

solo exhibitions, artists residencies, writer in residence, group shows and acoustic performances and events

bibliography:

Between 2003 and 2009 Hilary Jack and Paul Harfleet facilitated an annual programme of group and solo exhibitions, artists residencies and events for post graduate emerging and established UK and International artists. Jack and Harfleet also curated off site exhibitions at Surface Gallery Nottingham, Cornerhouse Manchester, Axel Lapp Projects, Berlin. They also curated Artranspennine08, a muti site exhibition of over forty artists across the Trans Pennine Way. Details can be seen on our blog www.apartmentmanchester.blogspot.com and www.arttranspennine08.blogspot.com

address:

Apartment

Grosvenor Street Lamport Court

M1 7EQ Manchester 53° 28' 19.128" N, 2° 13' 59.7936" W

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websites:

Apartment an artist led space in a one bedroom flat 6th floor of Lamport Court

total size in sqm/sqft:

≤ 100 sq.m (1076 sq.ft)

usage:

live & work

previous usage of the site:

residential

number of exhibition/project spaces:

10 +

established:

2003

vacated:

2009

last known status of the project:

finished

last known status of the site:

vacated

Apartment, artist led space, lamport court, Manchester

AirSpace Gallery

about:

AirSpace Gallery is a collaborative, artist led project in Stoke-on-Trent, providing professional development opportunities, studio and exhibiting space and support for artists. Through a dynamic and evolving programme of exhibitions, events and activities AirSpace Gallery brings critical, high quality contemporary art to the region and provides opportunities for a broad range of artists.

AirSpace Gallery was formed in 2006 by two Staffordshire University fine art undergraduates, David Bethell and Andrew Branscombe. At this point there was no contemporary visual arts provision in Stoke-on-Trent. Since then AirSpace Gallery has remained artist-led and has been programming high quality visual arts activity for and from established and emerging, national and international artists, consisting of exhibitions, residencies and public realm works ,alongside a committed approach to professional artist development.

As an artist-led space, the Gallery's current research interests mirror those of its directors and is particularly concerned with issues surrounding collaboration and partnership working and a relational relevance with its location and the socio-political landscape.

AirSpace has an ongoing series of projects, which are developed through a mixture of open calls and invitation. This makes for an exciting and vibrant mix of exhibitions, residencies, projects, artist development events and public realm works.

AirSpace Gallery has always been and remains committed to Paying Artists.

how is/was it run/structured ?:

group

what is/was it's legal status ?:

unincorporated organisation

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history of the site:

Built originally as the headquarters of the City's Gas Board in 1874, 4 Broad Street has subsequently, variously, been a bank, a building society,a tax office, a mission of catholic wives suffering domestic abuse and a pensioner's charity.