EVERYTHING MUST GO: (Part 2)

16 November - 21 December 2019

Preview: Friday 15th November

6pm til late

Guest DJ: Paul Merrick
all welcome

 

Workplace Foundation
The Old Post Office
19-21 West Street
Gateshead, NE8 1AD

Artists: 

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.