News
We’ve been happily overwhelmed with the numbers of people still enquiring – daily! – about opportunities for space for their project or creative enterprise. So we’ve been working on ways to better manage the application process – to keep abreast of all of the good ideas for projects which are out there in the community, as well as keeping contact with the great people who are wanting to participate in Renew Newcastle.
Silk House Art Project at 1/200 Hunter St Mall, August 2009
Submit an Expression of Interest
Are you looking for space for your art project or creative enterprise or cultural activity? We have now opened an Expression of Interest database to allow you to submit your project proposal to us at any time. Renew Newcastle is now accepting Expressions of Interest from individuals or groups who want their project idea to be considered for a space, via this online form.
Previous Applicants
We have received over 200 applications in the past 18 months, so we have not been able to satisfy the demand for space in Newcastle. But we are still working to get access to new properties. Previous applicants are encouraged to re-submit. As much time may have passed since you first applied, and your circumstances may have changed, we encourage previous applicants to refresh your project proposals and submit an Expression of Interest, if you are still interested in participating.
Information Night
We are holding an Information Night on Wednesday 4th August to give an update of what Renew Newcastle is working on and to talk about this new process. We encourage people who have already submitted an application and those considering putting in an application to attend. Details
Four new exhibitions are being launched on the First Friday of the month. Join Renew Newcastle’s Creative Director Marcus Westbury and General Manager Marni Jackson for a free guided walking tour through downtown Newcastle as we take in four very different spaces and scenes in Renew Newcastle gallery projects.
#1 Tour Stop – 6:00pm @ ARThive
Catch 22 is an exploration of the consurming commercial contrivances and corruptions of painting and photography. Featuring works by James Moran and Ry Wilkin
Opening night: 6-9pm Exhibition until: 4-14 August Location: Upstairs, 111 Hunter St (entry off Morgan St)
#2 Tour Stop – 6:15pm @ Before It Began
Warhol has been hacked apart and poured into a denim body bag at the launch of The Factory Exhibition. Photographer Bonnie-Grace Dwyer and digital art maker Harvest present new works, to the tunes of A Catt’s Revenge & Glenza, catwalk models, Silk Bar hospitality, and other special Guests. RSVP on their Facebook event page.
Opening night: 6-9.30pm Exhibition until: 31 August Location: Shop 2, 111 Hunter St Mall
#3 Tour Stop – 6:30pm @ Gallery Raw
Leave Only Footprints – The Journey Nature, Wildlife, Travel, Photography by Andre Joanisse. Special opening for RN Tour participants only (Private function from 7pm) Exhibition until: 29 August Location: 202 King St
#4 Tour Stop – 6:45pm @ The Black Chandelier
New works by local artisans – painting, sculpture, furniture and wearables Location: Shop 8, cnr Centenary Rd & Merewether St (across from Crowne Plaza)
You can RSVP for the Tour on our Facebook event page but if you aren’t on FB, just come along on the night.
Of course if you can’t make it on opening night, you can come and see the shows at your own pace during normal gallery opening hours. Enjoy!
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At The Black Chandelier gallery: The Rickshaw — Yarn Bombing — Designer: Ellen Riley
Are you interested in what Renew Newcastle is up to at the moment? Would you like to know more about how to make an application for your project?
We are keen to keep you up to date on our achievements so far, where we are headed and to let you know about opportunities for future projects in empty spaces.
This is an information night for interested members of the Newcastle community and for people who have put in or are considering putting in a project application.
With: Marcus Westbury & Marni Jackson
Date: Wednesday 4 August 2010
Time: 6:00pm – 7:00pm
Location: Renew Newcastle HQ, 3 Morgan St (In the former St Mark’s Catholic Chapel, off Hunter St Mall). See map
RSVP on the Facebook event page
The artists at Before It Began fashion studio have been featured in the first edition of Cubs Magazine, a publication dedicated to showcasing the work of local young creatives.
Featuring the work of 13 artists making fashion, photography, design, painting, illustration, prints, architecture and home tattoos, the magazine is online now, with a limited edition print run being launched Friday 2 July.
Meet the artists, the models, and the magazines creator – 22 year old Kwaku Atuahene – at the launch party:
Location: Shop 2, 111 Hunter St Mall
Date: Friday 2 July
Time: 6pm
As part of ART SOUNDS and in conjunction with L!vesites' Winter Heat, we’ve invited four local artists to re invent the sacred space of the old St Marks Catholic Chapel with site-specific works to warm the soul and enchant the heart.
Pictured: Ivy Ireland
In the Renew HQ Church from 7 til 8pm on Friday 2 July The Midwinter Sacrament offers you spicy mulled wine, moody fog and candlelit quiet for you to …
Witness! Ivy Ireland, the Caged Angel, ruminating from the Confession Booths via string harp, poetry & Hair-Rock covers from the 80’s and 90’s.
Wonder! Mystic storytelling in 2D, crafted by Danger Boy’s magical shadow puppetry.
Ponder! A Mystic poet’s chamber in 3D, styled by Jessika Schaad’s sculptural installation of alchemical curios.
Believe! Casio Gloria, that bent performance poet of electronica, twists the sacred strings of her violin. Not for the faint of heart!
ART SOUNDS is a magical musical walking tour around Newcastle city cultural spaces. The Full Program for Friday 2 July begins:
6pm at The Loft Youth & Cultural Venue, 7a Wolfe St Newcastle
7pm at Renew HQ, 3 Morgan St Newcastle
8pm at The Lock-up Cultural Centre, 100 Hunter St Newcastle
Join in while you walk between venues, as we will be guided with some energetic song and movement by the Sudanese Equatoria Women’s Choir and L!vesites Winter Heat fire installations, fire breathing and performance. See the flyer for more detail.
ART SOUNDS is facilitated by Newcastle City Council and also takes place in other venues on Friday 16 July. Details can be found on the Council website.
L!vesites Winter Heat installs fire and light sculpture around the city to warm up the dark winter nights. Winter Heat takes place on Friday 2, Saturday 10, Friday 16 and Saturday 24 July. See the website or flyer for more detail. (L!vesites’ Winter Heat event on July 10 has been postponed to July 31 due to wet weather concerns.)
RSVP on the Facebook event page
Gallery Raw operated from January – November 2009 as one of the first Renew Newcastle projects. Just prior to Christmas last year they had to vacate their GPT owned shopfront in the mall to make way for a commercial tenant.
The gallery had been true success for its operators and for the photographic community in Newcastle – offering cheap exhibition space in a gallery entirely dedicated to photography – so they were keen to set up in a new location.
The new shopfront at 202 King St is a little smaller than their first site, but they aren’t short on ideas on how to use the space and have a string of exhibitions by local photographers planned for the rest of the year.
Next Friday 2 July they will celebrate the the re-opening of Gallery RAW, Newcastle House of Photography, with an official launch of two exhibitions:
“InTeReSt” a debut exhibition by Joe Hudson.
This combination of work is truly unique in that not one item has been photoshopped or altered during printing so that every print is exactly as seen through the lens and totally the original work.
Joe states “I hope to bring honesty to my photography and trust that all my work will be enjoyed by those purists who place integrity high on their agenda”.
“Fable on a string“ by Michelle Groth and Geniveve Carr, two of Newcastle’s most up and coming photographic talents.
Exhibition period: Friday 2 July – Sunday 1 August 2010
Opening Night: Friday 2 July
Time: 7pm
Location: 202 King Street, Newcastle (opposite the Greater Union Tower Cinemas)
All are welcome!
We’ve updated a printable map of the Renew Newcastle projects so you can navigate your own walking tour.
We won’t be printing copies of the map, but you can find it in the front window of every Renew Newcastle space – so look out for the distinctive marker as you walk by. Or, if you prefer, you can download the map and print it.
MAP v4 JUN 10 IS OUT NOW!!
The Map v4 directs you to 16 properties which have been cleaned up and activated by local artists and creatives, in and around the Hunter St Mall area (between Perkins St and Newcomen St) and extending up Hunter St near Union St.
Renew Newcastle has been working hard to secure properties all around the city. The two newest projects include the re-opening of Gallery Raw in a new space on King St, and The Black Chandelier Gallery on the harbour side of the railway line at Civic Station (cnr Merewether St & Centenary Rd).
Since the last map (v3 Dec 09 jpg) several Renew Newcastle projects have moved out to make way for commercial tenancy’s in the Hunter St Mall area.
Keep checking back – as we launch more projects and properties we will update the map to include their details.
Download the map as a JPG.
Download the map as a PDF.
In the last year ARThive has hosted the work of over 100 artists, musicians, writers and performers, with close to 4000 visitors visiting the little gallery space hidden away upstairs at 111 Hunter Street.
The crew at ARThive are happy they’ve made it this far and invite you to join in their celebrations in the BIRTHDAY PARTY exhibition.
The festivities will feature, among other things, a retrospective exhibition of past and present studio artists and exhibitors, entertainment from the likes of Casio Gloria and Cock Safari, roving performances, live art demonstrations, a sensational art auction, and almost certainly CAKE.
Featuring incredible new work by Lance Johnson, Rose Turner, Jenna Gill, Marnie Vaughn, Miriam Montgomery, Simone Sheridan, Grant Hunter, Angus Crowley, DAPR, Rebecca Holmes, Sarah Mould, Ben Foster, plus more surprises on the night.
Opening Night: Friday 18 June
Times: 6pm – 9pm
Exhibition runs Friday 18 June until Saturday 3 July
More details at http://subjecthive.blogspot.com
RSVP to the Facebook event
Next month Renew Newcastle will farewell one of its longest running projects – Loop Space sound and digital media gallery.
Over the 17 months in the shopfront at 109 Hunter St Mall, Loop Space has shown international digital media works in 8 exhibitions, featuring more than 50 artists, with over 1500 people viewing the shows.
Project manager Damian Castaldi and his partner Solange Kershaw are relocating to Melbourne, and are taking the Loop Space idea with them – we wish them all the best in their new ventures.
You are all invited to the launch night for a last play on the blue light seats and a massive dose of excellent Australian video art in the final show called Body Capital, curated by Ann Finegan.
Opening Night: Friday 18 June
Opening Night Times: 6pm to 9pm
Each of us is possessed of a body, our own personal body capital, a storehouse of potential wealth and well-being. Collectively it is what each of us stakes in the body politic, in ethics, in concerns for each other and the world.
In Body Capital eight video artists engage in humorous feats, extreme performance and the staging of the extraordinary to test the limit points of politcal will and the body under late Capitalism.
The show features video work by: Liam Benson, John Conomos, Sari Kivinen, Naomi Oliver, Eugenia Raskopoulos, George Tillianakis, Jon Wah and Anastasia Zaravinos
If you can’t make the opening night, the exhibition runs Friday 18 June to Friday 9 July.
For more information and media enquiries contact: info@loopoz.com or phone 0405 639 525
Renew Newcastle has studio space currently occupied by 8 visual artists – weird little spaces where they paint, draw, print, dream, construct, sew, work through the night, tear out their hair, breathe deeply.
The studios are working spaces, not generally open to the public (though stay tuned for open-studio shows that are being planned). So we thought we’d keep you up to date with what some of these projects have been working up to:
RAILWAY ENTHUSIASM by David Hampton
Hello, terribly sorry to bother you again. I’m having another show; this one is about trains, so that will make a nice change wont it?
There will be toy trains running on the floor and lots of inexpensive prints and drawings of railway locomotives on the wall. There might also be some Doctor Who prints (Everybody knows that Doctor Who fans and Railway Enthusiasts inhabit the same ecological/social niche) and possibly some submarine prints (I like submarines).
BRUNEL AND BERKELEY by David Hampton and Trine Deans
What happens when an artist that wants to draw giant steam ships smashed into the middle of Victorian London collaborates with a much better artist that wants to draw glamorous women dressed in 1930s swimming costumes?
Drawing inspiration from maritime history artists Trine Deans and David Hampton present an exhibition of prints pictures and projections exploring a long gone world of metal Leviathans and bathing beauties. Of reckless engineers and marvellous choreographers.
You can see both shows at:
Location: NAS, 246 Parry St, Newcastle
Exhibition Period: 10 – 27 June 2010
Opening night: Friday 11 June. From 6.30pm, where there will no doubt be all manner of comestibles and beverages available FOR FREE
Exhibitions Showing Soon
Renew Newcastle studio artists David Hampton and Rebecca Holmes are also student members of the Watt Space 2010 Management Committee, and are hard at work curating upcoming shows @ Watt Space Gallery, Auckland St, Newcastle.
Upcoming opening nights at Watt Space are Thursday evenings at 6.30pm, everyone welcome:
10 June, 1 July, 22 July, 12 August, 2 Sept, 23 Sept, 14 Oct, 4 Nov, 25 Nov, 16 Dec.
Newest studio artists
Keep an eye out for these latest artists who have only just set up their Renew work spaces:
NonStop Paints by Stu McDonald, is an adventure in stencil, design, aerosol and ink.
Zookraft by Carl Morgan and Lara Schubert, offering graphic design and illustration.
