C PAGES was supported by Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Spaces, an initiative to create dynamic project spaces for artists, artist collectives and artists development agencies. Making use of temporary vacant retail, office and light industrial units, NAS provides opportunities for emerging creatives to incubate their practices, produce work and showcase new art to local communities.

Working in collaboration with Castlefield Gallery and Eastside projects we developed a series of creative exchanges and events for their associate artists schemes. These exchanges impacted upon early and mid-career artists’ professional practice and created links between Manchester and Birmingham.

The exchange involved CG Associates and Extra Special People offering members the chance to experiment, explore the kinds of dialogue which arise through creative activity, and make new work and connections.

#1 | Manchester on the 8th & 9th May 2014 |TOAST Castlefield Gallery’s New Art Space at Federation House
#2 | Birmingham on the 5th & 6th June 2014 | STRYX.

Participating artists
Dan Auluk
Meghan Allbright
Sandra Bouguerch
Sophie Bullock
Leah Carless
Lisa Denyer
Lucy Harvey
Holly Rowan Hesson
Anna Horton
Sophie Huckfield
Beth Kettel
Jane Lawson
Kathryn Miller
The Penthouse
Rebecca Randle
Emma Thackham
Emily Warner

CG Associates is a membership scheme for artists, writers and independent curators working in contemporary art.  It has been developed by Castlefield Gallery to support members in developing their work and careers by providing information, skills, opportunities, resources, promotion and critical dialogue

Extra Special People (ESP) is Eastside Projects’ Associates scheme, supporting the development of work, ideas, connections and careers through a programme of events, opportunities and projects. Members become active contributors to a practice-led peer support network and benefit from Eastside Projects’ experience of the contemporary art world and regional, national and international contacts