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GOLDFACTORY RESEARCH SPACE

Art Monthly article on Studios Plight

“your lease will not be renewed” and with those fateful six words the twenty year tenancy of contemporary artists in the Oldknows Factory was sealed. There is not enough space here to start unravelling the history of the art studios, the ups (four flights of stairs) and downs (because you forgot to buy [...]

Nottingham studios plight: from artists newsletter

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 [...]

HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM GOLDFACTORY

Research Space 12: Julian Woodcock

I have made friends with this space this month. I have driven through the low winter sun excited. I clutched chewing jaws of cold key-metal. A black door - cleaning in progress – an old factory. I always had difficulty unlocking the red door. I sometimes looked through the keyhole at my work before entering [...]

Research Space 11: Elly Valentine

Elly Valentine Since gaining my degree in contemporary arts from the Nottingham Trent University I have been concentrating mainly on ceramic pieces ( I have been making castles) with the odd foray into the world of performance poetry…… Dirtbags is an installation that has been waiting for space to happen for a very long time. it will be an installation [...]

Research Space 10: Edward Morris

Goldfactory is currently unfunded and all shows happen through the time and effort of volunteers. Website www.myspace.com/edwardmorris1 Relationship status married College / University North Oxfordshire School of Art & Design Program BA(Hons) FINE ART Member type Artist, Collector, Curator If you’re an artist, what kind of art do you make? [...]

Research Space 09: Pauline Woolley

‘The Goldfactory needs funding and it needs to stay and this is why… As a studio-less artist in desperate need of room to reacquaint myself with paint, The Goldfactory Research Space was a golden (excuse the pun) opportunity to be handed. I had four weeks to focus and create anything I desired [...]

Research Space 08: Moogee

”Belcher is different again, here showing rough cartoons whose hero is Moogee the Art Dog, wandering through the minefield of the contemporary art establishment. The cartoons are openly hostile rather than merely satirical, the tickboxy culture brutally castigated by Belcher’s spleen probably deserving such a good savaging “ MARK PATTERSON, Nottingham Evening Post ‘TYPO’ show review [...]

Research Space 07: Phillip Henderson

Phillip Henderson is Goldfactory Research space artist in residence number 7 for May 2008 Once in high summer I listened to a rare stranger from the eastern half of Europe singing in a Northamptonshire wood. Phillip is a composer and ‘pataphysician currently writing a PhD; On The Spectrum Of Drone at University College for the Creative [...]

Research Space 06: Geoff Litherland

I am very conscious of the difference between rational thought, chance and the exercise of instinct or intuition within the creative process of painting, and have sought ways in which all three can be employed together in forming images.The work explores the material identity and language of abstract painting, questioning its histories and boundaries, much [...]

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Research Space

Goldfactory Research Space

The notion of the research space developed out of earlier aspirations for Goldfactory both an artistic resource and a promotional tool and as a catalyst for new developments in art and art-presentation.

A research space is not a gallery nor is it a studio. The short residency within the space enables new ideas to develop without the clutter and baggage that a permanent studio might engender. Nor does the space bring with it the pressures of a public exhibition space where a finished product is presented to the public. The research space seeks to present art as an ongoing process. As an exploration not as a finished product that provides all the answers. It changes the way art is consumed without being enfeebled by the market place.

Paul Matosic - Goldfactory Nottingham

Shaun Belcher - Goldfactory Nottingham (Webmaster)