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- CAN, Egerton and Oldknows studio groups - a community of around fifty artists working in a Victorian lace textile factory in St Anns, Nottingham, UK, including three exhibition/project spaces for new contemporary art.
Currently under threat of eviction on 28th February 2009, after twenty years, because of the expansion plans of a company called The Stone Soup Project (see www.thestonesoupproject.com) who work for South Nottingham College (see www.snc.ac.uk).
Minister for Culture, David Lammy, at the Whitechapel Art Gallery London: -
"Artists are central to social cohesion and help us identify how we can live together and create a future together. If we leave our artists to navigate their way in this property market with its rising rates, we will lose out as a consequence."
http://www.acme.org.uk/capital.php
By the way - this page has been set up by Mik Godley, just so that you know, because I am extremely worried!
There is very little time to act - please voice your support here - all comments from artists, supporters and others all over the world are most welcome.
- About my artwork
- “If you don’t have visual artists, fine artists, then you don’t have all the other strands of the Creative Industries. Visual art is the base of all the other parts of the Creative Industries. Yet the artist is often the very last on the list when we talk about the Creative Industries.”
Stella Couloutbanis, Exhibition, Events and Festival manager, Future Factory, Nottingham Trent University, in conversation, May 2007
“Although it is not always recognised, some of the artists at Oldknows and Egerton Studios are the bedrock of artist-led activity in Nottingham...they trail-blazed and laid the ground for much of the current activity by newer, currently higher profile artist groups.”
Alison Lloyd, Head of Visual Arts, Arts Council England, East Midlands, May 2007.
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Artists' studios: creating public benefit
A Nottingham case study
Michael Cubey, November 2007
This case study looks at two Nottingham based studio groups, Oldknows Studio Group and Egerton Studios, both small scale organisations, voluntarily run and operating as unincorporated groups but with a twenty year presence at one site in the city, the Oldknows factory in St Ann’s Hill Road.
By looking in depth at the activities of some of the artists based at these two studio organisations, this study demonstrates that artists in receipt of an affordable studio can gain the support, confidence and security that enables them to participate in cultural life and provide a range of important public benefits. The study also shows the vulnerability of the sector as the leases for both groups are due to expire within two years.
National Federation of Artists' Studio Providers
http://www.nfasp.org.uk/media/doc/NFASP_Nottingham_case_study.pdf
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- Not losing our studios!
- Centre of the artworld:
- nowhere and everywhere
“Artists play a central role in helping to build the thriving, vibrant, sustainable communities which improve everyone’s quality of life. Imagination, innovation and flair are abundant in our creative industries, but places to work are sometimes in short supply. So providing affordable artists’ studios is really important and an acknowledgement of the valuable contribution artists make to society…...Studio provision is a necessary building block for the future of visual arts in this country. ”
David Lammy MP
Minister for Culture
I have worked in Nottingham for over 30 years and the role of artists and studio groups have been vitally important to the economy and culture of Nottingham. The studio groups represent a vast network of artists who have over the last 2 decades have made a massive contribution to the city of Nottingham and beyond.
All the artists housed in the Old Knows Factory have been extremely important as they are
• Part of the infrastructure of Cultural life in Nottingham and have played a part and have contribute to the investment of Arts Council funds into 2 major Art Galleries for the area.
• They engage with the community and run extensive workshops and education programmes
• They teach
• They creative many exciting and innovative artworks
• They contribute to the economy of the City
• They are ambassadors for Nottingham City
• They present exhibitions
• They make public artwork
• They create an international profile for the City of Nottingham
The break up lost of studios will have a massive impact for these artists that work there and beyond. The studios provide a hub for artists to network to discuss their work, opportunities to sell their work, it provide a setting to allow them to be creative and most of all make their work!
Please do not destroy a historical wealth of vibrant individuals.
Stella Couloutbanis
Arts Consultancy & Project Management
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Comment Wall (18 comments)
- At 3:02pm on October 7, 2010,
BOIGEOL said…
- At 9:09am on December 7, 2009,
mike hinc said… 
- At 1:31am on April 15, 2009,
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- At 6:09pm on January 6, 2009,
Robin Portnoff said… - i hope everything sorts out for you.
- At 5:47pm on December 30, 2008,
gerhild WERNER said… - hi, hope you succeed to save your studios and have a fabulous 2009! gerhild
- At 10:28am on December 19, 2008,
karen Wright said… - Sorry to hear about the studios. The gentrification of Nottingham is strange isn't it? Tell me more and I will see what I can do. Have a daughter in uni there she might be able to do some student stuff as well.
Best
Karen
- At 10:04pm on December 14, 2008,
dawn hilton said… - Hi Mik,
I have created a couple of posts on my groups on facebook and have members signing petitions for other Galleries.
Feel free to post any links on the posts.
Have you thought of sorting out a petition?
Here are the links....
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?topic=6032&post=20416&uid=53684470324#/group.php?gid=45547657795
There is one there about MOCA, as you can see on the post they have had over 3,000 signed signatures now in two weeks.
It might be an idea Mik to get it out on facebook!
Here is another group Art Talk, this is the page I have set aside for Gallery closures.x
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1070731125&ref=name#/topic.php?uid=53684470324&topic=6032
- At 6:49pm on December 14, 2008,
Kane Cunningham said… - Hi Mik
It all feels like the 1980's, I thought we have moved on from the such conflicts which epitomised this period. Its as if nothing has been achieved and that artists are still seen as dispensable when their presence is inconvenient. I suggest you fight it with all the means at your disposal, to activate your media contacts and to stand up for your rights.
- At 2:20pm on December 6, 2008,
Louise Gains said… - I would like to add to your sos -- what can I do?
- At 9:08pm on December 2, 2008,
Sarah Jane Terry said… - hi how do we access the petition?
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News item on Nottingham studios closure published in Art Monthly, March 2009
Posted on March 3, 2009 at 11:00am
News article by National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers [UK]
National Federation of Artists’ Studio Providers
Nottingham Studio groups face closure
Nottingham Studios Consortium
On 6th October 2007 Oldknows studio group celebrated twenty years of existence. In 2009 they now face closure.
Oldknows established itself in the vacant, Oldknows Factory industrial building in St Ann’s Hill Road in 1987. Up until 1995 the… Continue
Posted on March 2, 2009 at 4:45pm
Letter published in an magazine March 2009
Nottingham studios plight
By: Paul Matosic, Mik Godley
In December 2008 the owner of Oldknows factory announced to the leaseholders of CAN, Egerton and Oldknows Studio groups based at the Oldknows Factory Nottingham, that their leases would not be renewed.
This in effect draws to a halt over twenty years of tenancy in the Victorian lace factory, making it extremely difficult for many of the thirty artists based… Continue
Posted on February 27, 2009 at 12:41pm
Press Report: "End of an era for Nottingham Artists"
Published in the Nottingham Evening Post, February 06, 2009
AFTER 20 years, the tenants at Nottingham's best-known artist studio building are moving out with their paints, brushes, frames and other creative bric-a-brac.
Even the chipboard… Continue
Posted on February 7, 2009 at 1:53am
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