March 2010
257 posts
This situation sounds really unfair, you...
Thanks to you Waygood I got my first start at working in the arts!
You certainly have my best wishes,
Claire O’Brien.
Wishes for Waygood from Bochum (Germany)
Dear Waygood-artists, members and staff, when I heard of the serious trouble for the Waygood Gallery I was really shocked. Regarding your successful work since years on such a high level I can’t really believe it. Because of my work as an artist in different Countries I everytimes made the experience how well-known Waygood in the European-wide art-scene is. I really hope the heads of the...
John O'Rourke - Lecturer / Course Leader of a...
I’m an artist creating works to commission, with very little knowledge of Arts Council funding mechanisms. However, I do have positive experience of Waygood - mainly through my role as a 0.6 contracted Lecturer / Course Leader of a Foundation Degree in Fine Art at Tyne Metropolitan College. As an organisation, Waygood has my support. Jude Thomas, in particular, has been very...
Think global, act local
Upon arriving in Newcastle from France in 2007, Waygood hit my map immediately as one of the main drivers in the magic of Newcastle, where a local, grassroots scene interfaced with an international scene in a mutually productive, organic way. I hope that this essential cultural identity of Newcastle will continue.
Atau Tanaka
Culture lab
The Waygood, when it was still in the town centre,...
The Waygood, when it was still in the town centre, organised some really good discussions. I still remember a meeting, which must have been in 2004 or 2005, to discuss notions of ‘popular culture’ as part of the debate surrounding Newcastle and Gateshead’s bid to be City of Culture. It brought together arts practioners, public sector officers in relevant areas, and academics;...
I wish Edinburgh had a Waygood!
When visiting Newcastle from both Edinburgh and Norway where I am originally from, I always made a point of visiting Waygood. I always thought Newcastle was lucky to have such a place, and wish that Edinburgh had such an artist led gallery/studio complex. This is why I could not believe the news when I heard that funding was being withdrawn by the Arts Council and Newcastle Council. A gallery is...
Bethan Maddocks, Artist
I first encountered Waygood in 2005 in my second year of University when Helen came to talk to my fine art course about the redevelopment in High Bridge. It was great to hear that opening soon after my graduation would be a contemporary artist run space in the centre of town. After graduating I got in contact with Waygood who gave me paid employment at events. When I got offered my first...
Sharon Wilson
Dear NCC and ACE,
Bottom line if you don’t trust Waygood to run a building at least let them still do what they are really good at and thats supporting artists and programming intelligent ideas which adds to the cultural capital and ambience of the city. Their vision is in the heart in a building which will potentially left with a hole if you are not careful.
Viva La Waygood. long live...
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The Good Waygood Way
Waygood has brought me fresh and interesting visions of contemporary art over the years and is one of the reasons I am proud to be from Newcastle. It’s organic and non-commercial ethos makes it possible to feel part of something special and unique rather than feeling like an observer looking in from the outside (the way too many galleries make you feel). My wish is that it doesnt change into...
Mark P
Dear Arts Council and Newcastle City,
Please don’t use the travails of Waygood as a way of instigating funding cuts through the backdoor, leaving you, conveniently not having to not acknowledge the complicity, incompetence and buck passing of agencies outside Waygoods control.
Arts venues in Newcastle. Newcastle needs Waygood...
Ken Byers
One of the strengths of Waygood is that it is...
However, Waygood has become far more than the staff who run it, or the board who manage it. Its legacy lies in the artists, projects, communities and audiences that it has supported over the last two decades. Waygood’s niche in the North East is as a contemporary art locus that reaches far beyond the region, both on a national and international level. It seems impossible that the City...
Always enjoy the exhibitions at Northern Stage....
Megan
Waygood has been a fresh and invigorating resource...
The move to the City Centre, with Helen Smith as Director, promised to be an exciting new chapter full of potential. It is frustrating and worrying to see the fruits of so much hard work jeopardized.
Andrew Burton
Waygood has a national and international...
I have always had the greatest respect and admiration for the work they do and believe that to discontinue support for such an important force for art and culture in the region would be the height of folly.
Graduates of the Fine Art Department of Newcastle University have benefited greatly from the opportunities and facilities that Waygood provide, not just the studio spaces but the advice,...
Waygood being 'put out to tender'???
Waygood being ‘put out to tender’? A sincere, well meaning and ambitious arts project should not be snatched out of the hands of it’s founders and awarded to the grabbing hands of opportunists and the highest bidder. The law of the jungle doesn’t ever favour the arts or artists. I wish Waygood could be nurtured and supported by both the Councils, I really thought that was...
Waygood is an organisation that Newcastle should...
Conor Lawless
The original Waygood team to continue
The original Waygood at High Bridge was brilliant and those who made it so, should be given every support in making the new project develop that success.
Dr S. N. Brown
The Waygood is an important part of the arts scene...
Leonie O’Moore
Mai Twynham (Plumleaf07 Arts)
Waygood is and can be WAYGOOD……please do not abandon ship will be a FAB addiion to City’s Art Trail……I would love to support and participate in future Arts into Education and Community Work and volunteering opportunities…..Would be SAD to let go of What could be WAYGOOD in the near and distant Future…..Too much love passion sweat and committment has gone...
Waygood is Way Good!
As a working-class, art loving Irish-Geordie living in Blakelaw I add my support to the campaign! Keep the Waygood open! We need the Waygood!! Newcastle council don’t let us down!
Cal Desmond-Pearson
