Workplace Foundation
16 November – 21 December 2019
Wednesday - Saturday, 12 - 5pm
Catherine Bertola
Cath Campbell
Nina Chua
Joe Clark
Noel Clueit
Claire Dorsett
Peter J. Evans
Susie Green
Dean Hughes
Rachel Lancaster
Robert McNally
Paul Merrick
Mick Peter
Magnus Quaife
Nicola Singh
Cecilia Stenbom
Everything Must Go (part 2) marks the launch of Workplace Foundation’s ‘Community of Artists’. An acknowledgement that a new form of representation is called for that looks beyond a traditional art market ‘commercial gallery’ model towards the value that artists and their relationships bring to a place.
Everything Must Go (part 1) was the first group exhibition at 34 Ellison Street, Gateshead curated by Paul Moss and Miles Thurlow in 2005. The title for the exhibition had been left chalked onto the shop window from the previous tenants, prior to our refurbishment of the shop into Workplace Gallery. The exhibition looked outside of our immediate locale, drawing together artists from across Britain to take part in a context that was itself a moment of becoming, optimistically looking outwards into the art-world from our base in Gateshead Town Centre.
This exhibition both cycles back to look with some nostalgia at a shared history, whilst looking forward to new ways of working with artists. Recognising the importance of community in an increasingly fragmented and chaotic world.