NOW THAT’S WHAT I CALL ART
Thursday 16th December - Saturday 15th January
This was a collaboration between two North East-based artist-led projects, System Gallery and Spaghetti Factory. Artists at all stages of working, were invited to display artwork. There was no selection process and we supported as many artists as we could to exhibit their work.
Art and culture should be the common property of everyone, and so the opportunity to shape it should be treated as a fundamental human right. The galleries which house it should present themselves as public, democratic spaces.
This was not an ‘open call’; it was an ‘open invitation’. We were excited to see the exhibition transform from an empty white box to a shifting gathering of artworks, ideas and processes.
Photograph by Jenny Mc Namara
Photograph by Jenny Mc Namara
Photograph by Mark Duffy
Photograph by Mark Duffy
Photograph by Mark Duffy
Photograph by Mark Duffy
Matt Antoniak
Eve Cromwell
Rosie Randall
Jim Lloyd
Conrad Milne
Joe Ford
Stewart Mel Wilson
Gary Carter
Jenny Mc Namara
Rachel Eleanor Brook
Jason Carden
Agatha Smith
Claudia Surrage and Christian Cowper
Stacey Broadbent
Rebecca Eelbeck and Anthony Venus
Peter Hayes
Su Devine
Samantha Tweddle
David Foggo
Peter Kellett Daniel Goodman
Sahar Delikhan
Peter Hanmer
Jaisen Yates
Laura Brown
Felix Culpa
Johnny X
Helena Swatton
James Hutchinson
Brenda Watson
Katie Watson
Vane Mcardle
Chris Leadham
Chris Leadham
Hannah Sparkes
Ross Hamilton Frew
Benji Spence
Richard Scott
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Diane Shaw
Patrick Snape
Sue Loughlin
Ed Hillier
Ed Lawrenson
Hattie Salisbury
Hope Turnbull
Lucas D'Praser Corp
Cecilia Sargent
Briony Carlin
Mark Duffy
Roman Vaughan-Williams
Matthew Young
John O'Rourke
Juliet Ferguson-Rose
James Ferguson-Rose
Stu Herring
John James Perangie
Kate Henderson
Sadaf Chezari
Danny Gilchrist
Ben Gilchrist
Rebecca Orr
Anna Muddiman
Sean Alexander Auld
Alex Richardson
Bethany Stead
Sophie Keith
KA BIRD
Maria Bujko
Cora Weiss
George Stewart
Angharad Creissen
Stuart Teears
Heather Carr
Amy McCartney
Ali Lee
Shona Fraser
A.Haller
Adam Wilson Holmes
Emma Bromley
Alice Card-Hall
Robin Reza
Natasha Loydell
Helen Shaddock
Thom Sansom, Alison Kow, James Dunn, James Hunter, Russell Atkinson and Ran Chan
Dolores Ramona
Jude Leece
Liam Aldridge
Maura Hawkes
Paul Raymond
Amar Naru
David Reynolds
Peter Jackson
Lucien Anderson
Helen Smith
Sahar Delikhan
Mark Dawson
Exhibiting artists were:
System is a nomadic curatorial project active in the North East. Run by Dan Goodman and Susannah Curran, it serves as a platform for emerging contemporary artists. System provides an opportunity to develop, test and investigate concepts in a low stakes collaborative environment.
The Spaghetti Factory is a grassroots curatorial project, led by Eve Cromwell and Jenny Mc Namara. With a focus on experimental approaches to space, the project is driven by artist support networks. Spaghetti Factory originally started in a house in Central Newcastle in April 2018, as a series of eight solo show exhibitions. It has now expanded across the North East to include guest curation, workshops and collaborative programming.