Following the closure of Londonewcastles original project space in Shoreditch, after a successful eight years, the new and more intimate Gallery 46 has opened in Summer 2016.
46 Ashfield Street, London, E1 2AJ
Gallery 46 in Whitechapel is our new sister gallery to be used as Londonewcastle Project Space. The new space, established through the partnership of Martin J Tickner and Sean McLusky and Fruitmachine founders, Martin Bell & Wai Hung Young breaks fresh ground for the open-source, non-conformist curatorial approach Tickner and McLusky employed at their (rightly) notorious MEN Gallery, in Shoreditch.Housed in a pair of newly renovated Georgian houses in the grounds of Whitechapel Hospital, GALLERY 46 is set over 3 floors and 8 rooms and is a kaleidoscopic addition to Whitechapel’s burgeoning gallery scene and close by its artistic...
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Our Street Art Programme is about turning over large canvases on buildings under our control - during planning and development – to artists, from the internationally renowned to the completely unknown. If you’d like Londonewcastle to showcase your work, contact us...
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The show charts the ‘cultural migrants’, who came from all over the UK, from overseas and a spectrum of economic and social backgrounds, moved into derelict spaces, and filled the vacuum left by the previous migrants. What they (we) were all here for, was to make use of the cheap rents, to work and create a culture based on ideas. Unlike previous youth and cultural movements, mainly based on consumerism, (what you wear, what music, etc) this a loose community based around ideas, process and their attempted execution.