Underpass Gallery
One has been created as part of a wider regeneration programme bringing the local community together to improve the Pelaw Wagonway, known locally as the Dilley Line, between Heworth and Bill Quay in Gateshead. It is intended that the underpass gallery will be used to display a range of artworks on an ongoing basis.
Artworks within the first exhibition have been created by young people from Gateshead Youth Offending Team and YCAP Restorative Justice Programme as part of a programme about giving back to the local community, pupils from Bill Quay and Colegate Primary Schools and Heworth Grange Comprehensive School as well as residents from Edberts House working with the local artists Dan Civico, Tommy Anderson and Lindsay Duncanson.
Bill Quay and Colegate Schools worked with lead artist Dan Civico to design the logo and packaging for the soup that was produced in a Soul Soup Cafe event. Working to harness, encourage and celebrate the creativity of local people, the Soul Soup Cafe events provide an opportunity for groups to further develop creative consultation activities within the local area. The children produced their own prints with Helen Donley at Northern Print as well as working with local graphic designer Nic Schneiders.
Heworth Grange Comprehensive School also worked with Dan Civico to produce a series of artworks and designs celebrating the Dilley Line. This included working on word art and poetry with artist Ira Lightman.
Young people from the Gateshead Restorative Justice Programme worked with graphic designer Tommy Anderson to create abstract paintings, photographic montages celebrating the local community, and typographic compositions influenced by the Soul Soup projects. They also worked with street artist Graham Cleland.
Edberts House over 50′s Lunch Club worked with photographer Lindsay Duncanson over a ten week period. They talked, ate, photographed, tried new food and remembered. This resulted in a series of images that reflect their memories and experiences with food.
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