NewBridge Gallery is now closed until Friday 16 October.
You can join us on 5 September and 3 October for Saturday Social. You can still shop NewBridge Books throughout the weekdays!
“Collaborative independence, involving hospitalities within hospitalities, is a form of independence that does not delude itself that autonomy (self-determination) is equivalent to isolation (the myth of the self-created self) … The ‘self’ of ‘self-determination’ is understood, within collaborative independence, to be co-produced with others.”
— Dave Beech
The Reading Room and Dan Goodman collaborated to select a series of books that reflect the themes and ideas that helped form The NewBridge ‘Open’ Open.
The NewBridge ‘Open’ Open was made by focusing its process on ‘people rather than objects.’ It encouraged work from both those who ‘identify as artists and those who do not’, creating a welcoming environment and rooting itself in inclusivity.
Through this process The NewBridge ‘Open’ Open captured the relationships, connections and communities formed in and around NewBridge, holding them in a room together through Jenny Alderson’s installation Making Space.
This exhibition helped us think about non-hierarchical curation and selection processes, the importance of interaction and collaboration when making (art), and the connectedness of art, people and place.
Art and Postcapitalism: Aesthetic Labour, Automation and Value Production
Art and Value: Exceptionalism in Classical, Neoclassical and Marxist Economics
Practical Anarchism: A Guide For Daily Life
Support Structures
The Mythology of Work: How Capitalism Persists Despite Itself
Change the World Without Taking Power
Hope in Hopeless Times
Anthropology, Art and Cultural Production
The Reading Room is a collaborative project opening up local spaces and providing a wealth of educational tools which will be a catalyst for creative thinkers and critical minds in partnership with Pluto Press and Left Book Club. Our physical library space can be found on the first floor, next to the gallery, and is stocked with thought-provoking books from Pluto Press and Left Book Club.
The Reading Room at NewBridge offers a programme invites artists, authors and researchers to host workshops, screenings and discussions inspired by the books housed in the library. Taking the lead from our communities, the topics of these events may include, the environment, LGBTQ+ issues, structural racism and much more.
Our collection of books continually expands with suggestions from exhibiting artists and the NewBridge Programme Committee.
The NewBridge Project is a charity, registered charity no. 1173849.
We are grateful to our funders, including Arts Council England, Newcastle City Council, Garfield Weston Foundation, Jerwood Foundation, Community Foundation North East, Newcastle University and the The North East Mayoral Strategic Authority.
We are proud to be a Gallery of Sanctuary.
