Renew Newcastle will be celebrating the launch of their THIRTY SIXTH separate project in the 22nd formerly empty spaces that they’ve taken over in the Newcastle (Australia) CBD.
Set to launch another series of art and creative projects which have opened in Newcastle; a collection of events over two days will celebrate the talent and hard work of the artists involved in cleaning up vacant shops to use for a range of creative projects.
The events, all held in the Newcastle CBD, include art exhibition openings, shop opening parties, a walking tour of the new projects, and a rare open studio show by visual artists, all designed to show-off the diversity of Newcastle’s creative talent.
The guided tour of the new projects on Saturday 15 August, 2009 introduces 15 new projects in 12 new properties in the Hunter St Mall area and will begin at 3pm at the Biami Mara Indigenous Art Gallery, Shop 3, 200 Hunter St Mall.
The group of new creative projects which you can visit on the day includes: an indigenous art gallery; a landscape photography gallery; a zine shop; the headquarters and display space for Newcastle Fashion Week; a tea house art gallery; a dance costuming workshop; a retail gallery selling locally made, hand made art, clothing, jewellery and household objects; the newly reinvented gallery space of the ARThive collective; and the individual working studios of 7 visual artists.
The walking tour has become a “don’t miss” event, with large numbers of local visitors joining in on the guided tour of new and existing sites around the Hunter St Mall area. The tour is presented by Renew Newcastle founder, some time ABC TV presenter, and This Is Not Art festival founder Marcus Westbury.
Please come along, say hi and help the RN crew celebrate!
Renew Newcastle News.
Renew Newcastle on ABC TV’s Sunday Arts
The next SilkHouseARtProjects event is the opening of DREAMS THAT MONEY CAN”T BUY, a film/sound/text project featuring dissimilitude a film/sound installation by Ryszard dabek and groeten uit zandvoort a text/object by i.j.oog.
Opening night: Saturday 01 August
Time: 5pm
Exhibition Period: 01 – 22 August 2009
The SHARP artists would love you to come along and experience their new project!
For more information on Ryszard Dabek see http://ryszard.net/
SilkHouseARtProjects is a series of installations and experimental art projects located at Shop 1 / 200 Hunter St, Newcastle (Australia) in the Hunter St Mall.
The project is a part of the Renew Newcastle initiative.
The works will vary in material and process. You may find the artist is working in the space during setup and throughout the exhibition.
The works are viewable 24hrs and will be open 10am-5pm every Saturday. http://www.silkhouseartprojects.com/
What becomes of a once-mighty centre of industry when the businesses fail or move away, and the jobs evaporate?
In this era of industrial decline, it is a question being asked of many places around the world. In the former steel town of Newcastle, there were over a hundred vacant shops and offices on the main shopping strip. But, six months ago television presenter and writer, Marcus Westbury set about changing the atmosphere in Newcastle’s city centre by inviting artists and designers to inhabit the empty buildings.
By having artists occupy these spaces he hoped to prevent the city turning into a ghost town and falling prey to crime. The Renew Newcastle project has been an incredible success in a short amount of time: there are already 27 different artist groups occupying the empty spaces in the city. Even Marcus is surprised by how quickly his plan to rejuvenate the city has been taken up, both to assist the business community in the area while and simultaneously give a boost to local artists and designers. Fenella Kernebone went along for a look.
Date: Sunday, July 5, 2009
Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm
Location: ABC1 TV
Producer/Presenter: Fenella Kernebone
Researcher: Emma Watts
URL: http://www.abc.net.au/tv/sundayarts/txt/s2615102.htm
