Outpost (gallery)
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| Established | 2004 |
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| Location | 10b Wensum Street, Tombland, Norwich, Norfolk |
| Type | Art Gallery |
| Website | www |
Outpost gallery, stylised as OUTPOST, was founded in 2004[1] and is an artist-run space based in Norwich showcasing contemporary art. Operating as a not-for-profit entity, OUTPOST is entirely managed by volunteers and governed by a steering committee composed of up to eight local artists and practitioners.[2]
The gallery has hosted over 150 exhibitions featuring artists such as Sadé Mica, Puppies Puppies, Turner Prize nominee Karla Black,[3] Turner Prize winner Elizabeth Price, and Bill Drummond.[4]
Since 2010, OUTPOST has managed a studio complex, known as OUTPOST Studios, at Gildengate House in Anglia Square, formerly the county records office.[5] houses over 80 artist and practitioner studios.[6][7]
History
[edit]The gallery is based on the model of Glasgow's Transmission Gallery which itself was copied from the model of New 57 gallery, Edinburgh. This model dictates that the gallery is run by a voluntary group of up to eight members who have a limit of two years of service, meaning power is constantly shifting.[8] This model has been shared and followed widely, acting as the blueprint for Generator (Dundee), Embassy (Edinburgh), Catalyst Arts (Belfast) and 126 gallery (Galway). The founding OUTPOST committee was Kaavous Clayton, Julia Devonshire, Robert Filby, Neil Smallbone, Jay Barsby, Phil Gardner, Stephanie Douet and Sarah Horton. The name is a reference to a former artist-led space in Norwich named Frontier.[5]
OUTPOST gallery began as a project headed by the interns working on EASTinternational.[9][10] EASTinternational was, at its time, one of England's biggest annual exhibitions and was hosted in The Norwich Gallery at Norwich University of the Arts and spread across the city. Held every summer running from 1991 to 2009 and curated by Lynda Morris, Professor of Curation and Art History at Norwich University of the Arts,[11] it showed work from artists all over the world.[12] Morris attended a symposium on artist-led spaces in 2002, which sparked her decision to permit funding for EASTinternational to be used to establish OUTPOST.
In 2016, OUTPOST applied for and was granted the status of Charitable Incorporated Organisation, trading as Norwich OUTPOST under the title "#FBF696".[13] The charity's name references the yellow HTML colour code #FBF696 that has been used for branding and marketing by the gallery since its founding.[14]
References
[edit]- ^ "ICA Nought to Sixty Organisation Index". www.archive.ica.art. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "ARCHIVES OF THE ARTIST-LED". www.archivesoftheartistled.org. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Karla Black at Outpost". BBC. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ Yallop, Vince (4 March 2005). "Art from a former pop prankster". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 23 February 2023.
- ^ a b Watts, Jonathon P. (23 October 2015). "There Goes the Neighbourhood". Frieze (175). Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ Knights, Emma. "Funding boost for Norwich art gallery". Retrieved 2 November 2022.
- ^ Lowndes, Sarah (July 2018). "Review of MEANWHILE. LOWER.GREEN, Norwich". Retrieved 2 February 2023.
- ^ "Off-Space no. 10: OUTPOST, Norwich". artreview.com. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ "EASTinternational: Unpacking the Archive". Norwich University of the Arts. Retrieved 2024-06-17.
- ^ Norwich University of The Arts (2014). "Impact Case Study 2 'EASTinternational': the impact of an international open-submission exhibition on the professional, career and commercial development of contemporary artists, curators and dealers". Research Excellence Framework. p. 1. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ Pim, Keiron. "NNF13: The art history of Lynda Morris". www.eveningnews24.co.uk. Norwich Evening News. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "EASTinternational 2003". www.bbc.co.uk. BBC. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
- ^ "#FBF696, Charity number: 1165944, Charity overview". www.register-of-charities.charitycommission.gov.uk. Retrieved 27 June 2022.
- ^ "Journal of the best in international graphic design". Grafik (Information Design #140): 73. May 2006.