Side Gallery
{{Short description|Photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne}}
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| established = {{Start date|1977}}
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| location = 5-9 Side, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 3JE
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| collections = "an extensive documentary record of the region"{{cite journal|first1=Darren|last1=Newbury |year=2002 |title=Documentary practices and working-class culture: an interview with Murray Martin (Amber Films and Side Photographic Gallery) | journal=Visual Studies | volume=17 | number=2 | pages=113–128 | url=https://www.academia.edu/210491}}
| collection_size = 20,000 photographs; 10,000 slides; 100 films; 6TB digital assets
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| founder = Murray Martin, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen, Graham Smith, plus Graham Denman, Peter Roberts and Lorna Powers
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| curator = Kerry Lowes
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| owner = Amber Film & Photography Collective
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Side Gallery is a photography gallery in Newcastle upon Tyne, run by Amber Film & Photography Collective.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Images of unemployment in North East are beautiful and shocking|url=http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/photography/for-ever-amber-britains-answer-to-magnum-present-life-under-a-lens-for-marginalized-communities-of-10360498.html|date=2 July 2015|website=The Independent}} It opened in 1977 as Side Gallery and Cinema{{cite news|first1=Graeme|last1=Rigby|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Obituary: Murray Martin|url=https://www.theguardian.com/news/2007/sep/08/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries|newspaper=The Guardian|date=7 September 2007|issn=0261-3077}} with a remit to show humanist photography "both by and commissioned by the group along with work it found inspirational".{{cite book|first1=James|last1=Leggott|title=In Fading Light: The Films of the Amber Collective|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=qkC9DwAAQBAJ|publisher=Berghahn Books|date=9 April 2020|isbn=978-1-78920-651-7|via=Google Books}}{{cite news|first1=Sean|last1=O'Hagan|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=The best UK photography galleries chosen by Sean O'Hagan|url=https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/oct/14/best-uk-photography-galleries-chosen-by-sean-ohagan|newspaper=The Guardian|date=14 October 2018|issn=0261-3077}} It is the only venue in the UK dedicated to documentary photography.{{cite web|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Side Gallery Reopens After Major Redevelopment With Childhoods Photography Exhibition|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2016/09/side-gallery-reopens-after-major-redevelopment-with-childhoods-photography-exhibition/|date=30 September 2016|website=British Journal of Photography}}{{cite web|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Capturing the spirit of childhood|url=https://www.huckmag.com/art-and-culture/childhoods-photography-exhibition/|date=9 October 2016|website=Huck Magazine}} Side Gallery is located at Amber's base in Side, a street in Quayside, Newcastle near the Tyne Bridge.
Side Gallery closed on 9 April 2023 after the loss of its Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status and funding in November 2022, combined with rising energy bills."[http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs/newcastle-s-side-gallery-and-amberside-archive-at-risk-of-permane Newcastle's Side Gallery and Amberside archive at risk of permanent closure]." Accessed 13 April 2023. It launched a fundraising campaign which closed on 30 May 2023 to help it work towards reopening in 2024.{{cite web|access-date=2023-04-07|title=Fundraiser begins to save Newcastle's Side gallery|url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c3grz8x0m09o|website=BBC News}}
History
The inaugural exhibition was titled Documents in the North East and showed the work of four documentary photographers: Robert Hamilton Carling, James Henry Cleet, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Graham Smith.Viewed: 'Documents in the North-East at the Side Gallery, Newcastle British Journal of Photography, 11 February 1977, pp. 123–127.
In 1978, Henri Cartier-Bresson had a retrospective exhibition at Side.
In 2015 the gallery closed for a year and a half for major redevelopment, reopening in September 2016. A second exhibition space was added, as well as a library, and study centre / social space with digital access to the collection.{{cite web|first1=Matthew|last1=Whitehouse|access-date=2020-06-28|title=all dressed up: photographing the rituals of childhood|url=https://i-d.co/article/all-dressed-up-photographing-the-rituals-of-childhood/|date=29 September 2016|website=i-D}}{{cite web|first1=Barbara|last1=Hodgson|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Side Gallery prepares to unveil new image|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/newcastles-side-gallery-prepares-re-11735096|date=11 August 2016|website=Evening Chronicle}}{{cite web|first1=David|last1=Whetstone|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Side Gallery, a unique window on the world, is reopening after a £1.1m refurbishment|url=http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/side-gallery-unique-window-world-11925875|date=23 September 2016|website=Evening Chronicle}}
Side Gallery closed on 9 April 2023 after a reduction in Arts Council England funding, combined with rising energy bills. It launched a fundraising campaign to raise £60,000 so it could work towards reopening in 2024.{{cite web|first1=Ravi|last1=Ghosh|access-date=2023-04-07|title=Newcastle’s Side Gallery to close unless new funding secured|url=https://www.1854.photography/2023/04/newcastles-side-gallery-to-close-unless-new-funding-secured/|website=www.1854.photography}}{{cite news|first1=Mark|last1=Brown|access-date=2023-04-07|title=Newcastle's Side Gallery to close after funding cuts and energy bills rise|url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/06/newcastle-side-gallery-to-close-funding-cuts-energy-bills|newspaper=The Guardian|date=6 April 2023|issn=0261-3077}}
Directors
- Ron McCormack (September 1976 – June 1977).New British Image 1977 British Journal of Photography, 11 February 1977, p. 109. Accessed 12 April 2023. McCormack was director of the Side Gallery and a member of the Arts Council's Photography Committee.
- Murray Martin (interim June 1977 – late 1977).William Messer, 'The British obsession: about to pay off, part 4', British Journal of Photography, 30 December 1977, p.1105. Martin is described as having 'taken the helm' after McCormack's departure.
- Chris Killip (late 1977 – 1979).{{cite web|last1=Tate|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=BP Spotlight: Chris Killip|url=https://www.tate.org.uk/whats-on/tate-britain/display/bp-spotlight-chris-killip|website=Tate}}
Exhibitions
- 1977. until 13 February. Documents in the North East. Featuring work from Robert Hamilton Carling, James Henry Cleet, Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen and Graham Smith.
- 1977. until 13 March. Singular Realities. Curated by Gerry Badger. Showing work from Lewis Ambler, Kurt Benning, John Blakemore, Beverly Bryon, Eric Carpenter, Paul Hill, Isabella Jedrzejscyk, Paul Joyce, Guy Ryecart, Paddy Summerfield, Gail Tandy and Peter Turner.
- 1977. until 10 April. New York in the Thirties – The photographs of Berenice Abbott.
- 1977. until 8 May. A Vision of Paris – The photographs of Eugene Atget and Viva – The photographs of Claude Raimond-Dityvon, Yves Jean-mougin, Herve Gloaguen, Martine Franck, François Hers, Michel Dulluc and Jacques Minassian.
Collection
The gallery's collection includes "an extensive documentary record of the region" as well as work by Sirkka-Liisa Konttinen,{{cite web|accessdate=2020-06-28|title=Byker - Amber Collection|url=https://www.amber-online.com/collection/byker/|website=Amber}} Russell Lee, Lewis Hine, and Susan Meiselas. Some of the gallery's exhibitions that are held in its collection include Tish Murtha's Juvenile Jazz Bands (1979), Konttinen's Step by Step (1984), Dean Chapman's Shifting Ground (2001) and Karen Robinson's All Dressed Up (2005).
References
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External links
- {{Official website|https://www.amber-online.com/side-gallery/}}
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Category:Art museums and galleries established in 1977
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