Appetite are thrilled to be working with Newcastle BID to commission a new project for Newcastle Town Centre as part of our programme expansion into the Borough.
Every Other Seat is a major, ongoing arts project by Staffordshire’s DUST Rising. Following the first iteration of Every Other Seat in Piccadilly, Hanley in September 2020, Every Other Seat is a fascinating collection of artist-adapted and designed seats that explores the situation the arts has faced during the pandemic.
The artist-commissioned chairs will go on display in the town centre in various settings including vacant shops from February 2021 with exciting additions from newly commissioned artists as the month progresses. Passionate about creating art in and for the region, DUST Rising will also work with Newcastle-under-Lyme College and Regent College to create additional individual seats with local art students that will go on display in March, collectively showing over 30 seats in an exhibition that will take over the town.
DUST Rising hopes the project will help prove ambitious and distinctive art can happen effectively even in times of real difficulty.
DUST Rising Curators said:
“It is so important that we continue what we do in public venues; that we grow and provide art events and activities that engage people. We want with ‘Every Other Seat’ in Newcastle, to keep on proving that the arts are for everyone to enjoy and can still take on serious issues in difficult times”
An artist-led Community Interest Company, DUST Rising began as Dust in 2016 with a local touring exhibition curated by Joyce Iwaszko and Andy Cooke which took inspiration from Stoke-on-Trent’s City of Culture bid and aimed to inform, inspire and promote the bid to a wider audience across the region. A second touring exhibition in 2017 took place in various non-typical art venues and in 2018 Dust developed into Dust Rising, a 6-week multi-site, multi- locations venues taking place in the Town Hall, Bethesda Chapel, the Museum and Art Gallery, a library, two independent art galleries, two cafes and a bar. These venues represent DUST Rising’s mission to focus on the development of local arts; the nurturing of graduates, emerging and re-emerging artists; art in surprising places; art as part of the fabric of everyday culture; and, last but not least, partnership, collaboration and inclusion. In 2018 DUST Rising was part of the inaugural Stoking Curiosity Festival with Keele University. This all led to the creation of DUST Rising CIC in 2019 with DR19, at the Spode Works, Stoke, as its first exhibition as a Community Interest Company.
Watch this space for more info about how the project develops!
Image credit: Ben Farr
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Dust Rising has three Director/Curators and a core group of Associate Artists:
Joyce Iwaszko; artist, Cultural Champion Hanley, (a voluntary post created with the areas Cultural Strategy’s legacy), studio manager AirSpace Gallery 2013-19, experienced workshop tutor, her practice includes exhibiting & curating with artists groups & large scaled commissioned work for Middleport Pottery & Belong.
Terry Shave; has an extensive track record as an artist/educator/facilitator and is an Emeritus Professor of Fine Art. His one-person exhibitions include Stoke, Birmingham, Sheffield and London and abroad in New York and South Korea. He has been in more than 150 mixed exhibitions. Shave has initiated & developed significant arts projects nationally & abroad, with a particular focus on location specific intervention work to explore socio-political & historical interpretations of sites.
Kornelia Herms; an artist with a First-Class Honours in Fine Art from Staffordshire University. She was a studio member at AirSpace Gallery 2014-17, actively showing & co-organising a number of exhibitions including Assemblage at Spode 2015 and the Wirksworth Festival. She was recently selected to creatively adapt an empty shop window in Hanley as part of Appetite’s ‘Window Wonderland’ in December 2020.
