In February 2009 L O O P directors moved to Newcastle and through the Renew Newcastle project initiated by Marcus Westbury Loop Magazine became Loop Space. Damian and Solange converted the old Fletcher Jones building at 109 Hunter St into a Sound & Digital Media artspace and from early 2009 to July 2010 exhibited 59 artists in 8 exhibitions with approximately 1,690 visitors frequenting the space.
Download the complete Loop Space profile here. (10MB PDF File)
Exhibitions included:
1. Intimate (first group show). Exhibiting 8 artists including Jane Shadbolt, John Tonkin, Solange Kershaw, Nigel Helyer, Roger Mills, Neil Jenkins, Norie Neumark and Maria Miranda
2. Salute to Steel City/Bogie Hole/Coal Country. Exhibiting 3 artists including Helen Macallan, Bernadette Smith and Damian Castaldi
3. Audio On Loop. Exhibiting 18 artists including Robert Curgenven (NT), Joyce Hinterding (NSW), Cam Merton (WA), Rick Mason (WA), Sam Landels (WA), M@ McFarlane (Newcastle), Ros Bandt (Victoria), Lawrence English (Queensland), Michael Yuen (SA), Daniel Lavan (Victoria), Organism_b (NSW), Julian Day (NSW), Brigid Burke (Victoria), Daniel Blinkhorn (NSW), Mark Pederson (Victoria), Kraig Grady (NSW), Dan Conway (NSW), Roger Mills (NSW)
4. The Garden of Forking Paths. Exhibiting 10 artists including Laurie Anderson (USA) with Hsin-Chien Huang (Taiwan), Andy Deck (USA), Anita Fontaine (Australia) and Mike Pelletier (Canada), Jaron Lanier (USA), Michael Nyman (UK), Nina Pope and Karen Guthrie (UK), Tale of Tales (Belgium).
5. Play 109. Exhibiting 4 artists Solange Kershaw, Damian Castaldi, Neil Jenkins and Jake Lewis
6. Spystation. Artist residency with Nicola Morton
7. Video/audio/Painting/Photomedia exhibition of local and interstate artists. Exhibiting 9 artists including Peter Newman, Ian Andrews and Wade Marynowsky (DEMUX), Annemarie Murland, Peter Lankas, Bernadette Smith, Ros Bandt, Anette Willis and Damian Castaldi
8. Body Capital. Exhibiting 8 artists including Liam Benson, John Conomos, Sari Kivinen, Naomi Oliver, Eugenia Raskopoulos, George Tillianakis, Jon Wah and Anastasia Zaravinos
The Loop Space Gallery archive is online here
Marcus Westbury talks about Renew Newcastle
