4 Red Lion Lane, original home of the Exeter Studios Project, has finally been demolished. I feel an unexpected sense of release and suddenly want to look forward rather than back. If there are any Actual Working Artists out there in Devon who would like to try again, I'd be delighted to hear from them. I still have the urge to do this properly, despite my bad experiences first time around.
By properly, I mean a fit-for-purpose, below-commercial-rate workspace for professional artists and makers, incorporating shared resources such as an effectively programmed project/gallery space. This is about more than renting a building with some mates - I'd like to see a project that has some momentum and ambition. The group should be capable of maintaining grown-up partnerships with other organisations and managing its business in a fair, legal and transparent fashion.
The project doesn't have to be huge, but it does need to be ready to contribute something concrete and credible to the wider arts ecology.
It happens in other cities - why can't it happen here?
http://gabriellehoad.blogspot.com/2010/12/dream-not-quite-in-ruins.html
Background on the original Exeter Studios Project from an archived website:
http://www.artapart.co.uk/exstud/ourstory.html
My 2007-2008 blog about the development of the original Exeter Studios Project, as it happened:
http://www.a-n.co.uk/artists_talking/projects/single/385324/0/1/asc
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